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This event is free and open to the public. This event will not be recorded.
This program is conducted through Zoom. Register through the RPL website to receive a reminder, or click the link to join. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85179945478
Please note: anyone in Saskatchewan with a valid library card (from all regional libraries) can register for these programs. The direct Zoom link is provided above in the event you do not have a valid SK library card and cannot register.
The Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, on behalf of the Saskatchewan Book Awards, and the Regina Public Library are pleased to present the Saskatchewan Book Awards Shortlist Reading, part of the month-long celebration of writers and readers, Writes of Spring.
To register, visit the RPL website -- https://www.reginalibrary.ca/attend/programs/7879081
With readings by:
See all of the shortlisted authors on the Saskatchewan Book Awards website and celebrate in their success: https://www.bookawards.sk.ca/
Anthony Bidulka’s books have been nominated for Crime Writers of Canada Awards, Saskatchewan Book Awards and he was the first Canadian to win the Lambda Literary Award for Best Men’s Mystery. He was inducted to the University of Saskatchewan College of Education Wall of Honour, received the College of Arts and Science Alumni of Influence Award and named Saskatoon Citizen of the Year. Bidulka loves to travel the world, collect art, walk his dogs, obsess over decorating Christmas trees (it’s a thing) and throw a good party. His debut novel in a new mystery series, Livingsky, will be released in June 2023.
Melanie McFarlane is an author~potter~poet from southern Saskatchewan. She has volunteered on the boards for the Saskatchewa Festival of Words, the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild and CANSCAIP Sask. Melanie believes that an artist's strength comes from giving back to their community.
Joanne Leow grew up in Singapore and lives as an uninvited guest on Treaty Six Territory and the homeland of the Métis. She is Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University. Her creative work and research lie at the intersections of the environmental humanities, transnational and diasporic cultural production, intimacies, autotheory, and decoloniality. Her writing has been published in Brick, Catapult, Evergreen Review, The Goose, Isle, The Kindling, The Town Crier, and Ricepaper Magazine. Seas Move Away (Turnstone Press, 2022) is her debut collection of poetry.
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