Events & Workshops

Book Bytes is a lunchtime, online summer reading series celebrating the work of Saskatchewan writers of diverse genres, identities, and experience levels. Events run every Wednesday lunch hour from 12-1 pm (Saskatchewan time) beginning on July 19, 2023, via Zoom.

Please be mindful of your time zone as all times listed are Saskatchewan time. Find your time zone here: https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter

Register once for the entire series here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P5Uarbg0RQO47T2vxqTJzg

This event will be recorded and uploaded as an unlisted video (meaning that only registered participants will be able to access the video or sent by request) available for 30 days on the SWG YouTube channel following the event.

The Guild is fortunate to have the support of our major funders who make events like this possible: Sask Lotteries in proud partnership with SaskCulture, Canada Council for the Arts and the City of Regina. 

August 2, 2023:

Readings by

Spencer Mack

Simran Ramkalawan

Iryn Tushabe

Host: Sabryna McCrea

Spencer is originally from Regina but now calls Whitewood, Saskatchewan home. As a middle-year teacher, he strives to instill the love of reading in the lessons he teaches and the stories he writes. Spencer is in the early stages of his writing journey and will be sharing an excerpt of his unpublished YA, The Farm. He welcomes your feedback and hopes to connect with all of you on social media.

My name is Simran Ramkalawan and I’m from a small island in the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago. All my life I’ve been in love with reading and at the age of eleven I wrote my very first poem and knew poetry was my calling. I moved to Saskatoon last summer and since then I’ve had my poetry published in the Windscript magazine. As much as I love writing, my dream job lies within journalism and political science; but in my heart I will always and forever be a poet.

Iryn Tushabe is a Ugandan-Canadian writer and independent journalist. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Briarpatch Magazine, Adda, Prairies North, The Walrus, on CBC Saskatchewan, and is forthcoming this spring 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, and has been included in the Journey Prize Stories (volumes 30 and 33.) A 2023 winner of the Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, she’s currently querying publishers for her debut novel, which is set in contemporary rural and urban Uganda.

Sabryna McCrea graduated from the U of S in 2022 with a B.Sc. in Anatomy and Cell Biology and currently works as a research assistant/coordinator in gynecologic oncology. Sabryna has always balanced her interest in science with a passion for art. She enjoys music, drawing, and fibre arts. Sabryna’s mother is a writer, so although she is not much of a writer herself, Sabryna loves to read poetry and short stories.