The Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2025 Summer Writers Retreat scholarship and bursary.
The Judy McCrosky Bursary provides an emerging Saskatchewan writer with program fees for one week’s retreat and is awarded at both the Winter and Summer Retreats.
Emily Garland is a wannabe hermit and aspiring Regina-based author. By day (but mostly evening, and weekend) she’s training dogs to pay the bills, and at most other times she’s neglecting real life in favor of writing cozy, queer fantasy romances that sometimes get swept away in epic worlds and family sagas.
At the retreat, Emily will toil with two queer fantasy projects.
The Anne Campbell Memorial Scholarship provides one recipient with $500 for the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild Summer Retreat. The scholarship is intended for an emerging Saskatchewan writer working on poetry or short stories.
Tanisha Khan lives on Treaty 4 territory, in Regina. She writes prose, and when the mood strikes, poetry. She has an MFA from the University of Oregon. During the retreat Tanisha will work on a short story collection focusing on family secrets and myths, and the ways they intersect with the natural world.
The SWG’s Summer 2025 Writers’ Retreats will be held at St. Peter’s Abbey in Muenster from July 11-25, 2025. More information about the retreats and these scholarships is available at https://skwriter.com/retreats/writer-retreats.
Congratulations, Emily and Tanisha!