Step-by-Step, Word-by-Word: Writing as Embodied Practice
A talk by author Ken Wilson
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 25
Time: 3–4 pm
Location: Arts Building Room 210, 9 Campus Dr., Saskatoon
Free and open to the public
About this event
The University of Saskatchewan MFA in Writing Program and the Department of English present a public lecture by Ken Wilson.
Ken Wilson is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Regina. His first book, Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road (2025) won the 2022 City of Regina Writing Award. His essay “The Bear on the Path to Tofino” won the 2025 McNally Robinson Bookseller’s Creative Nonfiction Contest. His second book, Walking Well, is forthcoming from Wolsak & Wynn.
“Walking the Bypass sings in Wilson’s descriptions of his treks, which are often entrancing, as well as in its histories of Crown-Indigenous relations.” –Literary Review of Canada
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