Events & Workshops

 

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This event will be recorded and made available for 30 days on the SWG YouTube channel following the event: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRAIIcrpQW0NcY6ZM0GGSzw

 

To register, please visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oCyEroILRwWDMIf81OefmA  

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First Draft: Conversations on Writing is an online talk series that dives into themes that affect our writing lives. Writing helps us to understand things and to communicate these findings to our audience, even if our audience is ourselves. Sometimes we are driven by these themes, other times they’re the things that hold us back – what we learn through the process can be revolutionary. The quest to be understood unifies all writers.

 

This event features a 15-minute talk presented by Medrie Purdham. Following the talk is an interview conversation to dig deeper into the theme, hosted and moderated by Kathleen Wall.

 

Participants are welcome to submit questions in advance of the event to swgevents@skwriter.com.

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Should There Be a Son in Sonnet?: The Ups and Downs of Writing About Family

 

Everyone jokes about the perils of having a writer in the family. Be careful what you say, or it will wind up in a poem. This talk and Q & A will try to sound out the limits of what a writer can do with family materials.

 

 

Presenter

 

Medrie Purdham lives on Treaty 4 territory, teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Regina and writes poetry. Her first book, Little Housewolf (Véhicule, 2021) was shortlisted for several awards and won a Saskatchewan Book Award. Her poetry has been published in journals across the country and has appeared three times in Best Canadian Poetry (Tightrope Books). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Host and Interviewer

 

Kathleen Wall taught English for 37 years, first at the University of Manitoba and then at the University of Regina, winning the university’s teaching award in 2001.  She has published one novel, Blue Duets, and three books of poetry, Visible Cities, Time’s Body, and Without Benefit of Words.  She is currently working on two poetry manuscripts.  Appointments with Memory is about memory in the 21^st century and in one’s seventies.  Nature’s Culture turns the lyric on its head by assuming nature has its own culture; three of these poems were longlisted for the CBC poetry prize in 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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