MFA in Writing November Events: Place and Process, A Symposium

MFA in Writing November Events
Poetry, Prose, Plays, Place

Thursday, Nov. 22
3–5 pm
Arts 212 (moved from Arts 146)
Place and Process: A Symposium
Featuring Guy Vanderhaeghe, Lisa Bird Wilson, Connie Gault and other Saskatchewan authors

Free and open to the public

Info: english.department@usask.ca

Guy Vanderhaeghe is the author of five novels, four collections of short stories, two plays and one teleplay. He is a three-time winner of the Governor’s-General Award for English language fiction for his collections of short stories, Man Descending and Daddy Lenin, and for his novel The Englishman’s Boy, which was also short-listed for the Dublin IMPAC Prize and The Giller Prize. Man Descending was also the recipient of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in Great Britain. His novel Homesick was a co-winner of the City of Toronto Book Award and his novel, The Last Crossing was a winner of the CBC’s Canada Reads Competition. He has also received the Timothy Findley Prize, the Harbourfront Literary Prize, the Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Prize, and was a Fellow of The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, all awards given for a body of work. Guy Vanderhaeghe is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Member of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and currently holds the position of St. Thomas More Scholar, at STM College, University of Saskatchewan.

Lisa Bird-Wilson is a Métis and nêhiyaw writer whose work appears in literary magazines and anthologies across Canada, including a regular column in Geist magazine. Her fiction book Just Pretending (Coteau Books, 2013)was a finalist for the national Danuta Gleed Literary Award, won four Saskatchewan Book Awardsand is the 2019 Saskatchewan “One Book, One Province” pick.

Connie Gault has written for stage, radio, and film, and now concentrates on fiction. Her first novel, Euphoria, won a Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction and was short-listed for the 2010 Commonwealth Award for best book of Canada and the Caribbean. Her most recent book, A Beauty, features a road trip across southern Saskatchewan during the Great Depression. This novel was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was awarded Book of the Year and the Fiction award at the 2016 Saskatchewan Book Awards.

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