Events & Workshops

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This event will be recorded and uploaded to the SWG YouTube channel in the week following the event. It will be available for 30 days.

 

This event is free and open to the public.

 

To register, please visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CP5zRgqbS4iCvR1xNYfFhQ

 

The Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, on behalf of the Saskatchewan Book Awards, and the Legislative Library brings you a virtual edition of the Legislative Library Reading, celebrating the work of recent award-winners of the Saskatchewan Book Awards through readings.

 

Experience readings by:

• Dr. Allyson D. Stevenson, Intimate Integration: The Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship (University of Toronto Press),
  • Winner - University of Regina Faculty of Arts/University of Saskatchewan College of Arts and Science Jennifer Welsh Scholarly Writing Award
  • Winner – Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples’ Writing Award
• Guy Vanderhaeghe, August into Winter (McClelland & Stewart)
  • Winner – Fiction Award
• Arnolda Dufour Bowes, 20.12 m: A Short Story Collection of a Life Lived as a Road Allowance Metis (GDI Press)
  • Winner – Saskatoon Public Library Indigenous Peoples’ Publishing Award

 

Dr. Allyson Stevenson (Métis) joined the Indigenous Studies Department at the University of Saskatchewan as the Gabriel Dumont Research Chair in Métis Studies in July 2020.  She obtained her Ph.D. in History from the University of Saskatchewan in 2015. Her research areas include the Sixties Scoop, 20th-century Prairie Métis history, and Indigenous women’s histories of resilience and power. Her book, Intimate Integration: The Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship was published by the University of Toronto Press in Dec. 2020. She is presently working with the community of Kā-ministikohminahikoskahk/Cumberland House to explore histories of Cree-Métis gendered experiences of water and place as part of a larger project that aims to re-story connections among Saskatchewan River Métis communities.

 

 

 

Guy Vanderhaeghe is a three-time winner of the Governor’s-General Award for fiction. He is the author of short story collections, novels, plays, and one teleplay. For his body of work, he has received the Timothy Findley Award, the Harbourfront Prize, the Kloppenburg Award, the Lieutenant Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and was made a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation. His most recent novel, August Into Winter, was shortlisted for the Writers Trust Atwood Gibson Prize and won the Saskatchewan Book Awards Fiction Award.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arnolda Dufour Bowes acknowledges the land on which she resides and pays respect to the ancestors of Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Metis. She is a dynamic Metis woman originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, who studied creative writing with Guy Vanderhaeghe at the University of Saskatchewan. Her first book, 20.12m, is a compelling coming-of-age collection of stories based on the marginalized Road Allowance Metis. It received the Danuta Gleed Literary Award from the Writers Union of Canada in 2022. It was among SaskBooks’ best-selling titles of 2021 and won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Indigenous Publishing in 2022. It is a finalist in the High Plains Book Awards for 2022 Indigenous Writer. Arnolda is honoured that Jesse Thistle teaches this book in his Metis Studies class at York University, and is excited about new projects with Groundwood Publications and the WIFTV Tricksters and Writers program. 

 

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