Events & Workshops

 

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Join us at the Bushwakker Brewpub’s Writer’s Corner Fifth Edition Reading, where we celebrate the talents of local authors Donna Gartshore, Gail Bowen, Brian Bowman, Pam Bustin and Tara Gereaux in readings of their work. Bushwakker will have local food, drinks, and a special dessert for sale while we make ourselves cozy in the year-round Writer’s Corner found near the back of the brewpub. 

 

This event is free and open to the public.

 

About the Bushwakker’s Writers Corner:

 

Bushwakker’s is seeking donations of recent publications (2020-22 publication dates) from Saskatchewan authors in all genres to help expand their library within the Writer’s Corner. The books will be available for patrons to read and are to remain in the brewpub at all times.

 

To be considered for the library, books must be a minimum of 40 pages and professionally bound.

Please drop off a copy of your recently published book (along with purchasing information which can be shared with brewpub patrons) to Grant Frew at bar@bushwakker.com.

 

 

Meet our event artists:

 

Donna Gartshore lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.  Donna now has three books published with Love Inspired and is working on three more. She has also published short stories and poems in various literary publications and was a runner-up for the City of Regina Writing Award in 2020. Donna loves family time, walks, coffee and movies with friends and talking about books and writing with her friends and the writing community.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gail Bowen is a prolific author, playwright and teacher. Her best-known works are the Joanne Kilbourn Shreve series of mystery novels, all of which are set in Saskatchewan. The twenty novels in the series have received national and international acclaim for their realistic, continually evolving heroine and examinations of contemporary social issues ranging from child prostitution to feminism, racism and domestic abuse. Six books in the series have been successfully adapted for an international television audience. Among her numerous writing awards are a lifetime achievement award from the Crime Writers of Canada and the Distinguished Canadian Award from the University of Regina and the Lifelong Learning Centre. Readers’ Digest has called her Canada’s best mystery novelist. She is also a playwright, specializing in children’s literature, and has adapted a number of classic works such as Peter Pan and Beauty and the Beast for the stage and radio. In 2018, she was awarded the Grand Master Award of Crime Writers of Canada, and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.

 

Ms. Bowen has spent her professional life helping new writers develop their craft and unique voices. She has been a writer‐in‐residence at libraries in Regina, Calgary and Toronto, and has presented courses at numerous writers’ festivals and retreats across Canada. In November 2021, she will speak at a Canadian Studies symposium at the University of Marburg in Germany. Professor Bowen taught literature in the English Department of the First Nations University of Canada for 22 years, serving six years as department head.

 

 

Tara Gereaux (Métis-Settler) has published a novel, Saltus (Nightwood Editions, 2021) and a teen novella, Size of a Fist (Thistledown Press, 2015), which have been nominated for several Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her writing has also been shortlisted for the 2022 ReLit Novel Award, won the City of Regina Writing Award twice, and received a Hnatyshyn REVEAL Indigenous Arts Award. After graduating from the UBC’s MFA creative writing program, Tara worked as a writer and story editor in film and television for ten years. From the Qu’Appelle Valley, Tara is a descendant of the Red River Métis and a member of the Métis Nation in Saskatchewan.

 

 

 

 

Brian Bowman grew up in the Qu’Appelle Valley of southern Saskatchewan where his family raised politics, grain and cattle. A ‘why not?’ nature led him to nail-biting adventures and many vocations before settling on a writing career that evolved from advertising to journalism and editing. He now strides through a national landscape of ‘mostly true’ stories from Canadian history.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pam Bustin was born in Regina and raised in a host of small towns across the prairies.  She currently lives mostly in Chapleau, Ontario with a lovely man and 10,001 books – though she is back in Regina now – serving as the Writer in Residence at the Regina Public Library. HUZZAH! She writes plays, fiction and non-fiction and works as a story tender for other writers. Her novel Mostly Happy won some groovy awards once upon a time. You can find out more about Pam and her work at https://pambustin.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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