Events & Workshops

The SWG is excited to launch our brand-new anthology apart: a year of pandemic poetry and prose. apart paints a vivid portrait of life in a pandemic, when “normal” is a thing of the past and anxiety is a faithful companion. Some of the writing is sad, even heart-breaking, a few pieces are funny and light-hearted, but may provide some much-needed comfort and imagination in a turbulent time. Join editors Courtney Bates-Hardy and Dave Margoshes as they present some of our many talented contributors in an evening of readings.

 

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Readings by:

 

Born in northern India, Moni Brar now lives in Calgary on unsurrendered territories of the Treaty 7 region and Syilx Okanagan Nation. Her writing explores the interrelation of time, place and identity in the immigrant experience, diasporan guilt, intergenerational trauma, and colonization. She believes art contains the possibility of healing. Her work appears in PRISM, Passages North, Prairie Fire, Hobart, and others.

 

Joan Crate lives in Calgary and the Okanagan but visits Saskatchewan when it’s not winter. Her poems reflect life in isolation while trying to recover from the devastating loss of her life partner of 38 years. She is the author of three books of poetry, two novels, hundreds of poems, a few stories and a dabble of essays.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jason Heit was raised on his family farm in west-central Saskatchewan; his writing is inspired by rural Saskatchewan, its people, and their stories. Heit’s first book, Kaidenberg’s Best Sons (Coteau Books, 2019; Guernica Editions, 2020), won two Saskatchewan Book Awards. He lives near Pike Lake with his wife, Jacqueline, and their children.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anne Lazurko is an award-winning novelist, a no-awards farmer, and a sometimes poet. Growing up in the microcosm of tiny-town Saskatchewan was excellent fodder for exploring character and story. Her new novel, What is Written on the Tongue, is forthcoming from ECW Press. Anne now lives and farms near Weyburn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shelley A. Leedahl is a former Saskatchewanian now living in Ladysmith, B.C. Her books include poetry and short story collections, novels, non-fiction, and children's literature, and she frequently writes book reviews. Leedahl’s recent titles include The Moon Watched It All and I Wasn’t Always Like This. Go – a new poetry collection – will be out with Radiant Press in 2022.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeanette Lynes is the author of two novels and seven collections of poetry. Her third novel is forthcoming from HarperCollins Canada in 2022. Jeanette directs the MFA in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan. In her spare time, she continues to work on a collection of personal essays and collects vintage aprons when the thrift shops are not locked down. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s most recent book is Following the River: Traces of Red River Women, an award-winning hybrid work about her Ininiwak and Métis grandmothers. Author and editor of fourteen titles of nonfiction and poetry, Lorri served as Halifax Poet Laureate, is Professor Emerita (Mount Saint Vincent University) and now teaches in The University of King’s College MFA program. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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