Teen Writing Experiences are held in Summer throughout the province. They offer up to 14 teens the opportunity to develop their skills as creative writers. The workshops are held in partnership with local libraries and are free of charge. Learn about more about writing poetry and fiction from a professional writer.
John M. Cuelenaere Library
July 22nd – 26th
Instructor: Carla Braidek
Carla Braidek lives and writes in the boreal forest near Big River. In 2005, her book Carrying the Sun was short-listed in the Saskatchewan Book Awards for the Best Poetry Book. Her work is also published in her chapbook Quickening, in the Hagios Press anthology New Saskatchewan Poets, and in various literary magazines. Carla enjoys teaching writing. She has been in classrooms from grade 1 to 12, has taught outdoors, at libraries, and on city streets. She says, “Writing is the exploration and collaboration of everything our senses notice.” Her work reflects her close connection to the natural world.
Guest Speaker: Veryl Coghill
I love to read and have a need to write. My passion for reading and writing began with Dr. Suess also known as Theo Lesieg. Thanks Theo.
I have attended both the Intro. and the poetry workshops at Sage Hill. I have taken a number of one day and weekend session lead by various Saskatchewan writers. I have a poetry book published by Thistledown Press entitled Make Me. My poetry is published in a number literary magazines. I am currently working on two manuscripts of poetry, a book of short stories and a novel. I continue to include and reference childhood experiences, images, literature and games in my writing. I have two wonderful children; and an energetic and inspiring grandson, Rylin.
To apply: Visit www.sagehillwriting.ca/teens/registration
Application Deadline: Friday, May 31st, 2013
Sunrise Branch Library
July 15th – 19th
Instructor: Sheena Koops
Writing has always been a big part of Sheena’s teaching: journals, creative writing, writing-to-learn, and writing workshop. Sheena has taught school in urban, First Nations and rural Saskatchewan within private, band, and public schools, and currently teaches English at Bert Fox Community High School. She used narrative and poetics in her master’s thesis: Blue Eyes Remembering Toward Anti-racist Pedagogy, and she published her first young adult book Voice of the Valley with Orca Book Publishers in the fall of 2006.
Guest Speaker: Judith Silverthorne
Judith Silverthorne is a multiple-award winning Saskatchewan-based author of over a dozen children’s novels, one of which has been translated into Japanese, and the author of two non-fiction biographical adult books. She has also written several hundred articles and columns for newspapers and magazines and worked as a journalist, freelance writer, editor, evaluator, researcher, curator, book reviewer, scriptwriter, and television documentary producer. She has presented hundreds of readings and writing workshops at libraries, schools and other educational institutions, and at conferences.
She has won two Saskatchewan Book Awards for Children`s Literature and been nominated for several others, including the Saskatchewan Book Award for Publishing in Education, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and twice for the Shining Willow Award, the most recent one for this upcoming year for her book Ghosts of Government House.
Currently the Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, she has recently completed her first YA novel and is currently working on an adult historical novel.
To apply: Visit www.sagehillwriting.ca/teens/registration
Application Deadline: Friday, May 31st, 2013
Monday July 15th – Friday July 19th 2013
Moose Jaw Cultural Centre
Instructor: Angie Abdou
Angie Abdou began writing fiction in 2000 and has since published three books, with a fourth on its way. Her first novel, The Bone Cage, was a finalist in CBC’s Canada Reads 2011. Her more recent novel, The Canterbury Trail, was a finalist for the Banff Mountain book of the year. Angie was born and raised in Moose Jaw and now lives in the Rocky Mountains.
Guest Speaker: Dawn Dumont
Dawn is a comedian and comedy writer born and raised in Saskatchewan. Nobody Cries at Bingo is her first book and was published in 2010. Prior to that CBC radio produced four of her plays. Dawn’s excited to be presenting her workshop on Writing for Stand up Comedy at the Saskatchewan Festival of Words and looks forward to sharing some funny stories and hopefully collecting a few more.
To apply: Visit www.sagehillwriting.ca/teens/registration
Application Deadline: Friday, May 31st, 2013
TWE Saskatoon August 12 – 16, 2013
Sage Hill Teen Writing Experience
Monday August 12th – Friday August 16th 2013
10:00am – 4:30pm
Frances Morrison Library, Room 3, Lower Level
For teens aged 14 – 18
To apply: Visit www.sagehillwriting.ca/teens/registration
Application Deadline: Friday, May 31st, 2013
Instructor
dee Hobsbawn-Smith is a poet, chef, journalist, writer and educator. Her poetry, fiction and food writing has appeared in books, newspapers, magazines, anthologies and literary journals including The Malahat Review, The Antigonish Review, The Windsor Review, Gastronomica, Freefall and Numéro Cinq. After 27 years in Calgary, AB, she now resides in a 100-year-old farmhouse west of Saskatoon, SK, where she is currently earning her MFA in writing at the U of S. Her fifth book, Foodshed: An Edible Alberta Alphabet, is published by Touchwood Editions. In 2012, Foodshed won the Gourmand World Cookbooks Awards “Best Food Literature” (Canada, English-language) award. In the same year, dee won the Hamilton Poetry Festival’s annual GritLit Poetry Contest. Her first poetry collection, Wildness Rushing In, will be published by Hagios Press in 2014, and she has a short fiction collection in the works.
Guest Speaker
Adam Pottle is a Saskatoon writer whose work explores the dynamic and philosophical aspects of disability. His first book, a volume of poetry called Beautiful Mutants, was released in 2011 and subsequently shortlisted for two Saskatchewan Book Awards and the Acorn-Plantos People’s Poetry Award. His first novel, entitled Mantis Dreams: The Journal of Dr. Dexter Ripley, has been tentatively scheduled for publication in fall 2013, and his play, Ultrasound, is currently being developed for production.
TWE La Ronge March 4 – 8, 2013
Churchill Community High School
Senator Myles Venne School
Instructor: Keith Barker
Keith Barker is a Métis artist from Northwestern Ontario. A graduate of the George Brown Theatre School, he is the former Artistic Associate at Native Earth Performing Arts. Acting credits include King Lear (National Arts Centre) Tombs of a Vanishing Indian (Red Diva/Native Earth), Jesus Chrysler (Praxis /Rhubarb) Homegrown (Aluna/Summerworks), The Making of St. Jerome (Next Stage Festival), Job’s Wife (New Harlem Productions/Summerworks), Death of a Chief, (National Arts Centre/Native Earth), Autoshow (Convergence Theatre). He is honoured to be the writer in residence at Native Earth Performing Arts for the 2012/13 season. His play The Hours That Remain recently completed a Canadian tour and will be published in the spring of 2013.
A public reading will be held at 7pm on March 6
at the La Ronge Public Library.
