The SWG is pleased to announce Bev Brenna as our Winter 2024 Virtual Writer-in-Residence for February 1 to April 30, 2024.
Bev Brenna is a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of 14 books for young people (including picture books, middle-grade and young adult novels, poetry and short story collections), earning a Printz Honor, a Dolly Gray Award, and a Stuchner Award for humour; her work has also been shortlisted for a Governor General’s Literary Award and listed on CBC’s Young Adult Books That Make You Proud To Be Canadian. Bev has also published 2 non-fiction titles on children’s literature, and her adult poetry, prose, and academic writing has been published in a variety of anthologies, journals, magazines, and newspapers. For more info, please see http://www.beverleybrenna.com
Hello, rural writers! I’m delighted to work with you and learn from you this term in my new role as Virtual Writer-in-Residence! Although I write widely, with a number of long-term writing interests and publications, I consider myself a late-bloomer when it comes to publishing, and I credit various mentorship programs—where I participated as a mentee—for the courage and stamina to keep creating. So here’s a chance for me to give back—and I look forward to reading your work and helping you nudge it further in your writing journey. What I believe deeply is that, with the diversity of human experience, there’s no “right” way to create—if you have a goal and some writing in any kind of draft, we can work together!
To learn more about Bev and her writing, please watch her introductory video.
The Virtual Writer-in-Residence (VWiR) program provides opportunities for SWG members writing at all levels of development and in all genres to receive guidance and advice on a specific writing project from an established writer. Eligible members must live in Saskatchewan outside of Regina and Saskatoon – members in those cities can access their Public Library’s Writer-in-Residence programs. Members can submit up to 15 pages to the VWIR and meet one-on-one through Zoom up to three times to talk about the individual’s writing.
This service will open on February 1, 2024. To register, please fill out the form here.
