Events & Workshops

Walking through my process and how and why I take inspiration from my own lived experiences and why you can and should too.

Join host, Jennifer Gardiner and presenter, Francine Cunningham’s interactive talk on the importance of writing your story. In this hour-long event, Francine will be sharing slides on PowerPoint with exercises for the audience to do at home. She will also share some of her stories by reading from her work.

This event is open for everyone to attend and will be recorded. This will be made available for 30 days, to watch on the SWG Youtube.

To register, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bipOPgZhR5KcSyxHq6QOYA

Francine Cunningham is an award-winning Indigenous writer, artist and educator. Her debut book of poems On/Me (Caitlin Press) was nominated for the 2020 BC and Yukon Book Prize, a 2020 Indigenous Voices Award, and The Vancouver Book Award. She is a winner of The Indigenous Voices Award in the 2019 Unpublished Prose Category and of The Hnatyshyn Foundation’s REVEAL Indigenous Art Award. Her fiction has appeared in The Best Canadian Short Stories 2021, in Grain Magazine as the 2018 Short Prose Award winner, on The Malahat Review’s Far Horizon’s Prose shortlist, in Joyland Magazine, The Puritan Magazine and more. Her debut book of short stories ‘God Isn’t Here Today’ is out now with Invisible Publishing and is a book of Indigenous speculative fiction and horror. You can find out more about her at www.francinecunningham.ca

Jennifer Gardiner is a wife to an incredible husband, a mother to 3 beautiful daughters, and a daughter to a merciful and loving God. She is a Home-Educator, Writer and Doula. Jennifer enjoys traditionally harvesting off the land at their off-grid cabin in Northern Saskatchewan with her family. 

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