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Join the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild as we celebrate the apprentices in the 2024 Mentorship and Indigenous Mentorship Programs on Friday May 3 at 7:30 pm at the Delta Downtown Hotel in Saskatoon). The Apprentice Reading will showcase all 4 apprentices' reading from their work completed during the four-month mentorship program.
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This is a free event open to the public; all are welcome. Social reception to follow the program. Please note that this event is in-person only (no live-streaming option).
The Delta Downtown Hotel is a fully wheelchair-accessible venue. Paid parking is available in their parkade.
Please RSVP by emailing programs@skwriter.com or by filling out this RSVP form:
Apprentices in the 2024 Mentorship and Indigenous Mentorship Programs:
Hilary Klassen mentored by Jill Robinson
For the past 12 – 15 years, Apprentice Hilary Klassen has worked as a journalist, writing for newspapers and magazines, including the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and its parent company, Postmedia. She is currently working on a non-fiction manuscript about a Saskatchewan land conflict and also writes poetry. Hilary has sent her inquiring mind on numerous missions over the years. She loves theories of psychotherapy and for a season, put her M.A. to use as a therapist. She also spent a year teaching English in South Korea. She enjoys jazz and Latin music and has been a piano teacher. Hilary lives in Saskatoon.
Mentor Jill Robinson is a prize-winning fiction and creative nonfiction writer who currently lives on Galiano Island in BC. She lived in Saskatchewan from 1993 - 2009 and misses it still. She's published four collections of stories and a novel, and her work has appeared in many Canadian journals. She's just completed work on a creative nonfiction manuscript.
Lynn McGonigle-Clarke mentored by Bev Brenna
Apprentice Lynn McGonigle-Clarke discovered a passion for storytelling in the eighth grade when her English class included creative writing. She is currently working on revising a young adult supernatural mystery novel that she wrote when she was fifteen. She has submitted short stories to contests and made it to the second round of the New York City Midnight Short Story Challenge. When she’s not writing, she loves reading, watching movies and television, and wandering around the outdoors while thinking of her next literary venture. Lynn lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on Treaty 6 territory with her two ridiculously photogenic dogs.
Mentor 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
Curt Sanderson mentored by Norma Dunning
Apprentice Curt Sanderson is a father of two from the Mistawasis First Nation. When he’s not writing, he works at the Gordon Oakes Red Bear Student Centre, supporting indigenous students. He enjoys photography, walking the different trails, going to the gym, and Elvis Presley.
He is proud to be on his recovery journey. Curt has been clean and sober since September 28, 2020.
Curt is writing a memoir about his life and his struggle with addiction. He applied for the Indigenous Mentorship program to learn new skills that will help him complete his book.
Mentor Dr Norma Dunning is a Padlei Inuk writer, professor and grandmother. To date she has released five books. Two collections of poetry, two collections of short stories and one work of nonfiction. She lives in Regina.
Morgan Traquair mentored by Lynda Monahan
Apprentice Morgan Traquair’s poetry explores the intimate coastlines of relationships in the ebb and flow of love, hurt, loss and redemption. Her work inhabits the natural world in its infinite varieties of form, colour and texture while celebrating diversity and serendipity. Morgan’s poems have appeared in her chapbook Impermanence, Spring magazine, Our Lives, Lesbian Personal Writings and several other publications. She has read her work at SWG’s Words in the Park, and numerous community events. She has participated in writing groups in Toronto, ON, on Salt Spring Island, BC, and in Regina SK.
Mentor Lynda Monahan is the author of four collections of poetry: A Slow Dance in the Flames (Coteau Books 1998), What My Body Knows (Coteau Books 2003), Verge (Guernica Editions 2015), a cowritten collection A Beautiful Stone: poems and ululations (Radiant Press 2019) and a chapbook titled The Book of Bill. Her newest collection of poetry titled The Door at the End of Everything is upcoming with Shadowpaw Press in the spring of 2024. She has been the writer-in-residence at St. Peter’s College facilitated retreat, Balfour Collegiate in Regina, writer-in-residence at the Prince Albert Public Library and writer on the wards at Victoria Hospital in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. She recently completed a year as lead artist for an Artists in Communities project through the Sask Arts Board, mentoring local artists to develop long-term community arts programming.
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