Friday at 7:00 pm - 2025 John V. Hicks Long Manuscript Award in Fiction Ceremony
It’s a celebration of the winners of the 2025 John V Hicks Long Manuscript Award in Fiction! The first, second and third place winners will read from their work. Winners will be announced in late September.
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Saturday at 1:00 pm – 2025 Caroline Heath Memorial Lecture: "Seeding the Creative Spark" with Lawrence Hill
“Seeding the Creative Spark” by Lawrence Hill
Just as a green thumb can nurture a basil plant, it can also tend to the creative spirit. When are we most productive, as writers? How do we cultivate our best selves? Lawrence Hill will describe his own journeys into creativity – especially during his adolescence and early adulthood – and share thoughts on the art of seeding and mining the imagination – in students, in developing writers, in people who are incarcerated, and in oneself.
Lawrence Hill is the author of eleven books, including Beatrice and Croc Harry, The Illegal, and The Book of Negroes. Hill has volunteered with Crossroads International, The Black Loyalist Heritage Society, The Ontario Black History Society, and in federal penitentiaries. Hill is writing a novel about the African-American soldiers who built the Alaska Highway during World War Two. In 1977 he worked as a CPR train operator in Gull Lake, SK. His short story “Meet You at the Door” fictionalizes that experience, and appeared in The Walrus. A member of the Order of Canada, he teaches writing at the University of Guelph.
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Saturday at 7:00 pm - Seeding the Next 200: Grain Magazine's 200th Issue Launch with editors Elena Bentley, Taidgh Lynch, Credence MacFadzean
The Grain magazine team enthusiastically invites you to join us in-person, or virtually, to celebrate the launch of Grain’s 200th issue (Fall 2025, Vol. 53.1). For 200 issues, Grain has continued to harvest the best in eclectic writing since its founders first seeded the magazine in 1973. This event is free and open to the public, and will feature readings by Saskatchewan writers and poets followed by a reception where you can partake in snacks and refreshments, mingle with Grain authors and editors, and secure your copy of this milestone issue!
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