Events & Workshops

 

Join the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild and City of Regina to celebrate the 2024 City of Regina Writing Award on Thursday, May 9 at 7:00 pm at Wascana Place (2900 Wascana Drive).  The Award show will feature readings by winner Iryn Tushabe and runners-up Elaine McArthur and Ryshia Kennie.

 

This is a free event open to the public; all are welcome. Reception with entertainment and cash bar to follow the program.

 

Wascana Place is a fully wheelchair-accessible venue. Free parking is available.

 

Please RSVP by emailing programs@skwriter.com or by filling out this RSVP form:

 

 

 

2024 Award Winner Iryn Tushabe

 

Iryn Tushabe is a Ugandan-Canadian writer and journalist. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Adda, The Walrus, and in the trace press anthology river in an ocean: essays on translation. Her short fiction has been published in Grain Magazine, the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series (Book seven), and has been included in The Journey Prize Stories: The best of Canada’s New Writers (volumes 30 and 33). 

 

Tushabe won the City of Regina writing award in 2020, was a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2021, and won the Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize which, in 2023, recognized the year’s best short stories by ten emerging Black writers. Her debut novel, Everything is Fine Here, is forthcoming with House of Anansi Press in Winter 2025.

 

 

 

2024 Runners-Up

 

Elaine McArthur is a Nakota/Dakota winyan who hails from the Ocean Man First Nation on Treaty 4 Territory. She has a self-published children’s book Elizabeth Dances Pow wow and has written others that will soon be available. She has been published in literary magazines and anthologies.

 

Elaine has won the Indigenous Voices Awards 3 times and most recently was awarded a grant from the Saskatchewan Arts Foundation to complete the graphic novel Akicita.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ryshia Kennie writes novels of adventure, suspense and romance. She has won a number of awards for her novels. Her stories have taken her characters from the depression era prairies to the ancient stones of Angkor Wat and beyond.  A graduate of the University of Regina with Certifications in Administration she followed a career in administration but always wrote on the side. For more, visit her website at http://www.ryshiakennie.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Musical Entertainment by Regina musician Erik Mehlsen

 

Erik Mehlsen is a songwriter, music producer, novelist, and poet based out of Regina. As an artist he has toured North America and Europe extensively, and currently operates Sharp 5 Records and the Wrist Shot Records and Books Artist Collective. He releases his solo material under the pseudonym “Del Suelo”, which features a new installation of a limited edition comedy-poetry chapbook series titled “SNAX”, released annually each summer. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Submissions were adjudicated anonymously by Canadian judges Alice Major and Ruby Lang.

 

The award is sponsored by the City of Regina and administered by the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild.