Events & Workshops

Please join us as we celebrate the conclusion of the SWG’s 2021 Mentorship Program and the work our five apprentices have accomplished! Apprentices Kathie Cram, Donna Gartshore, Madonna Hamel, Carla Harris and Jacqueline Heit will read from their work completed during the five-month program.

This event is free and open to the public.

Readings by:

• Kathie Cram (mentored and introduced by Tara Gereaux)
• Donna Gartshore (mentored and introduced by Katherine Lawrence)
• Madonna Hamel (mentored and introduced by Dave Margoshes)
• Carla Harris (mentored and introduced by Barbara Klar)
• Jacqueline Heit (mentored and introduced by Edward Willett)

Please register and receive your zoom link here.

2021 Apprentice Bios

Kathie Cram loves the quote from Henry David Thoreau: “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see”. Since retirement, she is seeing the world in a different way. And stories are everywhere. Right now, Kathie is working on the novel Shedding Skin and a children’s book Let’s Fly: A Dragon’s Quest in Saskatoon. She has a Master of Arts and has worked as a community developer in Bolivia, Canadian not-for-profits and public health.

Donna Gartshore lives in Regina, Saskatchewan. Donna has two books published with Harlequin Love Inspired. She has also published short stories in spring, The Wascana Review and the online magazine Prometheus Dreaming. She has recently rediscovered her love for poetry. She was a runner-up for the 2020 City of Regina Writing Award. Donna loves family time and talking about books and writing with her friends and the writing community.

Madonna Hamel has worked in radio as a CBC writer-broadcaster, documentary-maker, and columnist. She's been a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail, Maple Creek News and artscanada.ca. As a performer, she's toured the United States and Canada. Her poems and monologues have been published in Capilano Review, Room, Fireweed, Quill & Quire, etc. Her piece Hearth Day, written while writer-in-residence at Stegner House, won the 2020 Prairie Fire Creative Nonfiction prize.

Carla Harris is a disabled queer writer, performer and interdisciplinary artist from Treaty 4 territory, living in Regina Saskatchewan. Rooted in music, theatre and performance poetry, she is working on her debut collection of poems and she is a nap champion. Her first chapbook, Obtain No Proof, is with the Dis/Ability Series of Frog Hollow Press.

Jacqueline Heit grew up on a farm in southwest Saskatchewan. She holds a B.A. honours in English with a minor in Religion and Culture, as well as a B.Ed. from the University of Saskatchewan. She has taught elementary school and is currently raising her children at home in rural Saskatchewan. Jacqueline enjoys reading, practicing martial arts, and writing fantasy fiction and poetry.

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