Events & Workshops

 

Join the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, on behalf of the Saskatchewan Book Awards, in partnership with the Cathedral Village Arts Festival, in a celebratory reading event featuring three 2023 Saskatchewan Book Award winners. These authors will share short readings of their award-winning work.

 

Please note that this event is in-person only and will not be recorded or live-streamed.

 

READERS

 

Michael Trussler writes primarily poetry and creative non-fiction. His work has been anthologized both domestically and internationally. He has received Saskatchewan Book Awards for poetry, non-fiction and short stories. His memoir concerning mental illness, The Sunday Book, was published by Palimpsest Press in 2022. Two poetry collections have recently appeared: Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah (Mansfield Press, 2021) and The History Forest (University of Regina Press, 2022). Icehouse Press will be releasing another poetry collection, Hummingbird with Spray Can in 2024. All of his work engages with the beauty and violence of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, though his most recent writing specifically explores what it means to be alive at the beginning of the Anthropocene.

 

 

Patricia Miller-Schroeder is the author of several nonfiction books for children about nature, science, and the environment and writer/researcher for a wildlife biography television series called Wild Lives. She is excited to introduce her first fiction book, Sisters of the Wolf, a YA prehistoric adventure novel set in Ice Age Europe. Sisters of the Wolf was nominated for a 2022 Red Maple Award and is winner of the 2023 Sask Book Award for YA Fiction.

 

 

 

Kathleen O’Reilly is a teacher educator and Indigenous graduate studies coordinator at First Nations University of Canada, University of Regina. Kathleen serves as a director with the New Dance Horizons Board. She and Alberta Bear recently co-authored Grandfather’s Reminder, a children’s book written in English, Cree and Saulteaux. The book, illustrated by Lindsey Bear, was done in collaboration with Elders and community members from the Touchwood Agency Tribal Council.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Raye Hendrickson has loved words her entire life. They have fed her, moved her to laughter and to tears, and stretched her mind. Raye writes poetry to discover who she is and what she thinks, and if her poetry can fill a space in someone’s soul, it is worth every hour of wrestling to find just the right phrase. Raye lives in the Cathedral area with her partner Elspeth; they delight in the vibrancy of this neighbourhood and the joys of owning a 104-year-old home. Raye’s work has appeared in several literary magazines and anthologies, and her first book of poetry, Five Red Sentries, was a finalist for two Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2020.

 

 

 

 

 

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