Events & Workshops

The Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild is proud to present the 12th annual Words in the Park, in partnership with Regina Downtown Business Improvement District and the Regina Public Library.

 

Held on July 6 and July 13 at noon in the northeast corner of Victoria Park, between 12:00 and 1:00 pm, Words in the Park provides the downtown lunch crowd with a chance to experience readings by an eclectic mix of authors and storytellers during their lunch hours. The authors come from a variety of genres including playwrights, children’s authors, poets, short fiction, spoken word, and non-fiction. Whether they are just emerging or already well established, a mix of authors from across Saskatchewan will read selections of their work. 

In case of rain, readings will be held in The Regina Public Library Film Theatre.

 

July 13:

 

Readings by

 

Hannah Senicar is a 2022 City of Regina Writing Award runner-up and her poetry has appeared in literary journals across the country and beyond, including CV2, Canthius, Prairie Fire, and Rust and Moth. Originally from a farm in southwest Saskatchewan, Hannah currently lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, Treaty 4, where she recently completed an MA in Creative Writing. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harlee Logan Kelly is a violinist, poet, and gardener from Portland, Oregon. She is a Portland State University graduate and received an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. Her poems have appeared in Court Green, Columbia Poetry Review, Habitat Magazine, and are forthcoming in Austria’s Poetry Salzburg Review. Her work recognizes the ecopoetic as phenomenology, investigating how things arrive in the mind and how the human is situated within the arrival. She is an instructor at the First Nations University of Canada with Student Success Services and in the Indigenous Literatures in English department.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joel Zimmerly is a fiction writer and poet. In 2013 he received a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. Currently, he is working on his first novel, the early pages of which won the 2021 City of Regina Writing Award. He lives in Regina with his partner and their cat, Cecil.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hosted by Melanie Schnell

 

Melanie Schnell’s first novel, While the Sun is Above Us, has been called “powerful,” “moving,” and “profound.” She has written for television, published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and won a few awards along the way. She teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Regina. Her second novel is slowly coming together between ferrying her 12-year-old to sports activities, grading essays, and vacuuming up cat hair. Usually, she writes when it’s dark.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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