Part of RPL's Writes of Spring pr ogramming series.
\nEnjoy readings from the following writers who ha ve been shortlisted:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \;& nbsp\; \; \; Anthony Bidulka\, shortlisted for the Fiction Award f or Going to Beau tiful (Stonehouse Publishing)
\n·\; \; \;&nbs p\; \; \; \; \; \; Melanie McFarlane\, shortlisted for the Young Adult Literature Award for Finders Keepers (Orca Book Publishers)
\ n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Joan
ne Leow\, shortlisted for the First Book Award for Seas Move Away (Turnstone Pres
s)
See all of the shortlisted authors on the Saskatchewan Book
Awards website and celebrate in their success: https://www.bookawards.sk.ca/ \;
This
program is conducted through Zoom. Register to receive a reminde
r\, the evaluation and any other resources.
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join: https://us02web.zoom
.us/j/85179945478 \;
This program is offered in partner
ship with the Saskatchewan Writers Guild. \;
Author Information: \;
Anthony Bidulka&rsquo\;s books have been nominated for Crime Writers of Canada Awards\, Saskatchewan Book Awards an d he was the first Canadian to win the Lambda Literary Award for Best Men& rsquo\;s Mystery. \;He was inducted to the University of \;Saskatc hewan \;College of Education Wall of Honour\, received the College of Arts and Science Alumni of Influence Award and named Saskatoon Citizen of the Year. Bidulka loves to travel the world\, collect art\, walk his dogs\ , obsess over decorating Christmas trees (it&rsquo\;s a thing) and throw a good party. His debut novel in a new mystery series\, Livingsky\, will be released June 2023.
\nMelanie McFarlane i s an author~potter~poet from southern Saskatchewan. She has volunteered on the boards for the Saskatchewan Festival of Words\, the Saskatchewan Writ ers' Guild and CANSCAIP Sask. Melanie believes that an artist's strength c omes from giving back to their community.
\nJoanne Leow grew up in Singapore and lives as an uninvited guest on Trea ty Six Territory and the homeland of the Mé\;tis. She is Associate P rofessor at Simon Fraser University. Her creative work and research lie at the intersections of the environmental humanities\, transnational and dia sporic cultural production\, intimacies\, autotheory\, and decoloniality. Her writing has been published in Brick\, Catapult\, Evergreen Review\, Th e Goose\, Isle\, The Kindling\, The Town Crier\, and Ricepaper Magazine. S eas Move Away \;(Turnstone Press\, 2022) is her debut collection of p oetry.
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