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35th Anniversary Spring Reading!
Join us for a Spring Reading to celebrate Sage Hill’s 35th Anniversary!
Presented in partnership with Sask Book Awards.
Featuring readings by:
Fiction Colloquium Instructor
Jessica Westhead
&
Sask Book Awards Finalist
Rita Bouvier
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024
2:30 pm CST
Free Admission
In-person
St. Peter’s, Muenster, SK
Online via Zoom
Register to attend at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuc–qqD8tHNGxjoMgH3wJJ_mZ2x_ijdKy
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to join the reading.
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Many thanks to special sponsors for this event:
Sask Book Awards & FriesenPress
Reader Bios
Rita Bouvier
Rita Bouvier is a Métis writer, editor and ‘retired’ educator. a beautiful rebellion, released April 2023 by Thistledown Press, was inspired by the Idle No More movement. It honours an ongoing resistance… and an unconquerable love for family, community, land and life itself. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Treaty 6), but home is sakitawak—Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan, Canada situated on the historic trading and meeting grounds of Cree and Dene people (Treaty 10). She currently serves as a volunteer with the Saskatchewan Ânskohk Writers Circle Inc. and the Indigenous Editors Association.
Jessica Westhead
Jessica Westhead is an author, editor, and creative writing teacher who has been working with aspiring writers since 2005, including teaching creative writing at The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Toronto Metropolitan University, and the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto. She has also worked as a literary prize juror, most notably for the Toronto Star Short Story Contest, and for the Fiction category of the 2023 Governor General’s Literary Awards. Jessica’s fiction has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards, selected for the Journey Prize anthology, and nominated for a National Magazine Award, and has been published in major literary journals in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is the author of the novels Pulpy & Midge (Coach House Books) and Worry (HarperCollins Canada) and the critically acclaimed short-story collections And Also Sharks and Things Not to Do (Cormorant Books) and Avalanche (Invisible Publishing). And Also Sharks was a Globe & Mail Top 100 Book, one of Kobo’s Best Ebooks of 2011, and a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Worry was included on CBC Books’ Best Canadian Fiction of 2019 and the CBC Canada Reads Longlist. Jessica lives in Toronto with her family.
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2024 Sage Hill Writing Courses
In 2024, Sage Hill will be offering a variety of in person and virtual courses. The aim is to continue to accommodate folks who prefer the accessibility of online courses while offering a few more courses in person within a safe context.
Each class unit will be completely online or entirely in person so participants can focus on their writing in a unified context.
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2024 Course Information:
Facilitated by Jessica Westhead
Dates:
May 15 – 24, 2024
Location:
In Person at St. Peter’s College, Muenster, SK
Application Deadline:
Applications for the Spring Program are now closed.
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Dates:
Online: July 3 – 12, 2024
In Person: 4 – 13, 2024
Location:
ONLINE via Zoom
and
In Person at St. Peter’s College, Muenster, SK
Application Deadline:
Applications for the Summer Courses are now closed.
ONLINE
Emerging A: Prose with D.A. Lockhart
Emerging B: Poetry with Lisa Richter
Summer Nonfiction with Michelle Good
Summer Poetry with Michael Trussler
IN PERSON
Summer Playwriting with Guillermo Verdecchia
Summer Fiction with Madeleine Thien
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