Events & Workshops

The SWG welcomes John McDonald, he will talk on the 20 years it took for his words to make it to the printed page. Along the way, he played to empty seats, was forgotten by his peers and gathered a staggering 300+ rejection letters from publishers. With humility, determination and in the midst of a global pandemic, John’s words were finally shown to the world, but his success never made him forget both, where he came from and where he had once been. Hosted by Jennifer Gardiner.

To register, visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pNrn24n7SGeG2_pK1JD4pA

Presenter

John Brady McDonald is an award-winning Nehiyawak-Metis multidisciplinary writer and artist from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He is from the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation and the Mistawasis Nehiyawak.  The 3X grandson of Chief Mistawasis, and the grandson of famed Metis leader Jim Brady, John is the winner of two 2024 Saskatchewan Book Awards. ​John studied at England’s University of Cambridge, where he made international headlines by symbolically ‘discovering’ and ‘claiming’ England for the First Peoples of the Americas.

Host

Jennifer Gardiner is a Metis writer from Leask, Saskatchewan.  She is a wife, home educator & mother to 4 beautiful daughters, and missionary who loves to learn alongside her children especially on the land. Jennifer appreciates and practices many forms of art and loves creating. She uses her writing as a tool to serve and share and can be found doing workshops in communities around the province.

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