Writing North 15 'Coming Home'
Sponsored by the MFA in Writing Program/Department of English and the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild
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
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” |
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” |