Events & Workshops

Grant writing can be a daunting task, but by looking at it from a growth perspective, the process can propel you forward as an artist, whether you get funded or not! Do you need time to dedicate to your manuscript, to take a research trip, or to work with a mentor? The process is highly competitive, but there are grants available. Learn how to focus your project, find the correct grant, and compose a convincing application.

SK Arts Program Consultant Danica Lorer will share insights gained as an applicant and as a funding consultant. She’ll provide information about grant applications, explain key terms and components, talk about support material, and a bit about the peer assessment process. The presentation will include information about SK Arts Independent Artists and Micro-Grant streams as well as the Access Copyright Foundation’s Marian Hebb Research and Professional Development grants.

This event is presented in collaboration with SK Arts.

Important registration notes:

To register for this online event, please visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KdP4DCNhRqGiIR84Sn9fXQ

Please note all times listed are Saskatchewan time. Find your time zone here: https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter

Accessibility Measures in this workshop

• Live auto-captions through Zoom during the live event
• (TBD) A copy of the presenter’s outline will be available during the live event
• Presenter self-descriptions
• This event will be recorded, captioned, and made available for 30 days (until May 1, 2025) on the SWG YouTube channel following the event: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRAIIcrpQW0NcY6ZM0GGSzw
• Transcript of the event available upon request

Workshop Facilitator

Danica Lorer has been struck by lightning, a moose, a rogue semi-tire, vehicles, and the odd strange idea. She is an oral storyteller, freelance and creative writer, page and stage poet, face and body painter, and singer/songwriter. She is currently the Literary Arts Program Consultant with SK Arts, also working with the Access Copyright Foundation grant programs. She has applied to SK Arts and the Canada Council for the Arts and has been both unsuccessful and successful, learning about herself as an artist and her goals as a writer and creator with each application.

Host

Iryn Tushabe is a Ugandan-Canadian writer and journalist. Most recently, her nonfiction has appeared in The Walrus and in the Trace Press anthology river in an ocean: essays on translation. Her short fiction has been included in The Journey Prize Stories: The best of Canada’s New Writers. She was a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2021 and a 2023 winner of the Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Tushabe’s work won the City of Regina writing Award in 2020 and 2024. Everything is Fine Here (House of Anansi, 2025) is her debut novel.

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