Upcoming Event

Writing North 15: Coming Home

Please join us for Writing North 15: Coming Home, a series of literary talks and writing workshops exploring the theme of “coming home.” The feature address is by award-winning Canadian novelist Jane Urquhart, and workshop leaders include Manitoba poet Sarah Ens, a graduate of our MFA in Writing Program, and Saskatchewan Métis and Cree prose writer Lisa Bird Wilson.

Date: Friday, Jan. 24 – Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025 (see schedule below)

Location: Main Lounge, St. Andrew’s College, 1121 College Drive, Saskatoon

Free and open to the public

Sponsored by the MFA in Writing Program/Department of English and the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild

For more information about Writing North, including accessibility information and presenter bios, please visit here. Note that some events will be livestreamed and available via Zoom and on YouTube for 30 days post-festival.

Friday, Jan. 24

7:00  - 9:00 pm

(in person & live-streamed)

Feature Talk: “Further Migrations: How Ancestral Family Rumours Become Fiction”
with Jane Urquhart; reception to follow

Saturday, Jan. 25

10:00 - 11:30 am

(in person)

Poetry Interactive Talk

“Homing In: Memory, Place, and Eco-Poetics” with Sarah Ens

1:00 - 2:30 pm

(in person)

 Prose Interactive Talk

“Ethical Remembering: On Writing Memoir" with Lisa Bird-Wilson

2:45 pm - 3:45 pm

(in person & live-streamed)

 Panel Discussion

“Life Lanes: the Complexities of Home and Home-Making”
with Jane Urquhart, Lisa Bird-Wilson, Sarah Ens, and host Rachel Laverdiere

About

Award-winning Canadian author Madeleine Thien was interviewed by English department faculty member Joanne Leow at the 2017 Writing North.

Writing North is an annual two-day writers’ festival for the community — at the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon, and beyond across central and northern Saskatchewan — of aspiring writers and anyone interested in writers and books. It features panel discussions, a keynote reading, and seminars on writing forms such as fiction, poetry, spoken-word, playwriting, and non-fiction prose.

This project is a collaboration between the university's MFA in Writing, Department of English, and College of Arts and Science, together with the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild. All these partners see Writing North as the perfect opportunity for building bridges between the campus and the wider community.