Sage Hill Writing Experience

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A playwright and freelance stage director, Philip Adams comes to Sage Hill from Toronto where he was the Artistic Manager and multi-disciplinary performance coordinator with Diaspora Dialogues, an organization that helps to bring the works of immigrant writers to a wide audience. He held a similar position at Toronto’s Sheridan College, working with immigrant journalists.

Over the years, Adams has served as Chief of Staff in the Yukon government, a coordinator of readings programmes with PEN Canada in Toronto, and as Artistic Director of theatre companies in the Yukon and Nova Scotia.

He’s been active with the Playwrights Guild of Canada, having served as its treasurer, and is currently Vice-president of Playwrights Canada Press. In the last few years, he’s directed several plays at the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre and with Ken Mitchell’s production company. He’s the drama editor for the online journal Maple Tree Literary Supplement.

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Fionncara MacEoin is a writer living in Saskatoon. Originally from North Battleford, SK she has spent most of her life moving–growing up in Canada, the United Arab Emirates, Mexico and the United States. Fionncara is a graduate of Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming Inc.'s Urban Canvas Project VI and McKay Career Training. Currently, she is working on an undergraduate degree in English at the University of Saskatchewan.

A Sage Hill alumna, Fionncara's poetry has appeared in The Society, Transition and CV2. Current projects include a collaborative chapbook with Saskatoon artist Nancy Lowry Even the Sky Parts (JackPine Press) to come out in the fall of 2011.