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Ledding Shortlisted for Lieutenant-Governor's 2013 Emerging Artist Award
Andréa Ledding, a student in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Culture & Creativity's (ICCC) MFA in Writing program, has been shortlisted for the Lieutenant-Governor's 2013 Emerging Artist Award.
Ledding is a Saskatoon-based writer and a student in the inaugural class of the University of Saskatchewan’s MFA writing program. Métis culture imbues all of her writing, and her work has earned accolades, including subTerrain Magazine’s 2010 Lush Triumphant Poetry Award. She was included in the Canada’s Best Poetry of 2011 anthology and won the Saskatchewan Writers Guild John V. Hicks award in 2012 for her poetry manuscript, Braid. She also won the 2011 John V. Hicks Long Manuscript Award for her non-fiction manuscript on the legacy of Batoche. Selections of her poetry will be anthologized in the coming year.
A recipient of Canada Council and Saskatchewan Arts Board grants, Ledding also received the 2012 Dick and Mary Edney Masters Scholarship for Creating International Understanding through the Humanities & Fine Arts for her poetry/prose thesis, Flett. Her play, Dominion, opened Toronto’s 2012 Weesageechak Festival, and was the first work staged at the new Aki Studio Theatre, a core component of that city’s Native Earth Performing Arts organization.
Ledding devotes considerable time to developing the next generation of aboriginal writers, leading hands-on, community-based literary work with Saskatoon’s Core Neighbourhood Youth Co-op, Oskayak High School, and Saskatchewan Writer’s Guild Aboriginal Youth writing workshops. She sits on the board of Saskatchewan Aboriginal Writers Circle Inc. (SAWCI), which organizes the Ânskohk Literary Festival, Canada’s only such festival to showcase Aboriginal authors from across the country. As well, Ledding is a regular contributor to Eagle Feather News and the annual Coteau Books Herstory series, and works as an editor and literary translator.
Also shortlisted for Lieutenant Governor Arts Awards are two Department of Art & Art History alumni: Ruth Cuthand (BFA'83, MFA'92) is one of three artists in the Saskatchewan Artist category and Clint Neufeld (BFA'01) in the Emerging Artist category.