ROBERT CALDER 1997
and 2004 Festivals
- English professor at the University of Saskatchewan
- received the Governor-General's Literary Award for Willie:
The Life of W. Somerset Maugham (1989).
DAN CALEF 1997
Festival
- librarian and chief storyteller at the Yorkton Public Library
- appeared on the award-winning Y.T.V show Poetree and Friends
AMY CAMERON 2005 Festival
STEVIE CAMERON 2006 Festival
DUNCAN CAMPBELL 1997
Festival
- self-taught graphic designer
- his illustrations have appeared on book covers and magazines
throughout
Canada
MARIA CAMPBELL 1997
Festival
- Metis writer,
dramatist,
film-maker and educator
- author of Halfbreed, Riel's People
and
People of the Buffalo
- won the Vanier Award for community development, the
Gabriel Dumont Award, the National Aboriginal Achievement Award and
three
honourary degrees.
CAPTAIN
TRACTOR 2004
Festival-
- Captain Tractor is ...Scott Peters: vocals, guitar,
mandolin Chris Wynters: vocals, guitar Brock Skywalker: vocals,
accordion, flute, harmonica, guitar Jon Nordstrom: vocals, bass Jules
Mounteer: drums
- Formed in Edmonton, Captain Tractor has produced an attractive blend
of alternative rock and Celtic influences since their inception in
1994.
WARREN CARIOU 2000 & 2005 Festival
- Saskatchewan-born, now teaching English at UBC
- Author of The Exalted Company Of Roadside Martyrs
(Coteau)
DAVID
CARPENTER 1997,
1998, 2001and 2004 Festival
-Alberta born, Saskatoon resident
-Versatile writer of short fiction and essays,
including
a linked sequence about rituals around home called Courting
Saskatchewan
(Douglas & McIntyre, 1996)
-First novel Banjo Lessons (Coteau Books, 1997)
ROCH CARRIER 2001
Festival
- National Librarian of Canada
- Several of Carrier's novels are considered classics and are used in
schools and universities around the world
- written plays that have been produced both in Canada and abroad
DONNA CARUSO (SK) 1999, 2002
AND 2005 Festivals
- Her film Doll Hospital was nominated for Best Social
Documentary
at the 1999 Rhode Island Film Festival
- makes award-winning films and videos rich
in sumptuous images: films and videos which tell stories with a
personal
intimacy that heals and heartens.
MARTY CHAN 2006 Festival
HERMÉNÉGILDE CHIASSON 2003 Festival
WAYSON
CHOY 2000 Festival
- First Chinese person to enroll in UBC's creative writing course
- Winner of the Best American Short Stories Award for The Sound
of Waves
- City of Vancouver Book Award and the Trillium awarded
The Jade Peony
- Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood (Penguin) is his latest
work
HILARY CLARK 2003 Festival
JOHN LIVINGSTONE CLARK 1997
and
2002 Festival
- has published several
books
of poetry, including Stepping Up to the Station, and Breakfast
of the Magi
- co-edited the anthology Towards 2000:
Poetry
for the Future
GEORGE ELLIOT CLARKE 2002 and 2004 Festival
- born in Three Mile Plains, Nova Scotia
- Associate Professor of English at the University of
Toronto
- Awards 2000--Outstanding Screenwriter Award--Toronto
Black Film & Video Network--awarded for One Heart Broken Into
Song (CBC-TV, 1999)
2001--Governor-General’s Literary Award for Poetry
LYNN COADY 2004
Festival
-a fiction writer and essayist.
-Born in Cape Breton and now Vancouver based, she is working on Mean
Boy, Fall 2004, her third novel and fifth book.
KAREN CONNELLY 2006 Festival
DENNIS
COOLEY (MB) 1999 Festival
- Published in eight anthologies
- Author of fourteen titles including Sunfall (House of Anansi
Press, 1996), this only home (ECW Press, 1992), and burglar
of
blood (Pachyderm, 1992)
AFUA COOPER2007 Festival
LORNA
CROZIER 1997, 2000, 2003,
2005 & 2007 Festivals
- won the CBC Radio Literary Competition in 1987, the
Governor-General's Award for poetry in 1992, the Pat Lowther Award and
the National Magazine Gold Medal Award
- teaches in the Department of Writing at the
University
of Victoria
MICHAEL CRUMMEY 2001
Festival
- author of two books of poetry, Hard Light and
Arguments With Gravity
- author of
Flesh &
Blood (short stories) and The Face of a Robber's Horse (novel)
ROBERT CURRIE 2000, 2003 & 2007 Festivals
- Founding member of Thunder Creek Publishing Co-operative
- Winner of CBC National Literary Competition, SWG Literary Awards
and the Ohio State Award for Radio Drama
- Things You Don't Forget (short story collection, 1999)
best-seller
in Winnipeg and Moose Jaw
DAVE AND TC (formerly Elysian
Dream) 2002 Festival
- Dave and TC began performing together in 1987. Since
then, they have
performed for audiences of all ages and backgrounds across Canada and
into
California. They have seven recordings to their credit and have
received Paul
Harris Awards through Rotary International for their CD fundraising
contribution.
MARY DALTON 2004
Festival
-born in Newfoundland, and studied at the Universities of Toronto,
Newfoundland and Liverpool.
-Professor of English in St. John’s where she teaches various poetry
courses.
-Her poems, reviews and essays have been published in journals and
anthologies in Canada, Ireland and the United States.
JEANNE
MARIE DE MOISSAC (SK) 1999
Festival
- Prolific poet and short story writer whose latest title is Second
Skin (Coteau, 1998).
- Her poetry & short stories have appeared in Grain, Arc, &
Western People
WILLIAM DEVERELL 1998 Festival
-Born in Regina
-Founding member & former president of the B.C.
Civil
Liberties Association
-Has 8 novels, the latest Fatal Cruise and Kill
All the Lawyers (Random House, 1994)
WAYNE DIRKSON (SK) 1997
and 1999 Festival
- Accomplished teacher, director, story teller and leader of story
activities for children.
DAVID DOERKSEN*
(SK) 1999 Festival
- President of Film & TV for Edge Entertainment Inc.
- producer of the feature film Summer of the Monkeys.
DON'T MIND US 2001
Festival
- popular improvisational team with comic performers Lee
Bells and Mark Schweighardt
- writing political
satire and comedy for CBC Radio.
BETTY FITZPATRICK DORION 2001
Festival
- author of three juvenile fiction titles
- Bay Girl
won the Children's Literature Award at the Saskatchewan Book Awards
PAULETTE DUBE 2004
Festival
- the author of three books and the recipient of a number of
awards including the Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Award (1994)
and the CBC Alberta Anthology (1998).
- Talon was shortlisted for
the 1999 Canadian Literary Awards, the Alberta Writers’ Guild Best
Novel Award (2003) and the Starburst Award (2003).
ADELE
DUECK (SK) 1999 Festival
- Recipient of two Saskatchewan Writers Guild Awards for children's
literature.
- Her book Anywhere
but Here was included in the Canadian Children's Book Centre's
Our Choice 97-98
DUGUID & ALFORD 2005 Festival
MARILYN DUMONT 2002
Festival
- since 1985, Marilyn has
published in numerous Canadian literary journals, and her work has been
widely anthologized as well as broadcast on radio and
television.
- Her
first collection won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, presented
by the League of Canadian Poets, for the best first collection of
poetry
by a Canadian writer.
- has been a Creative Writing instructor
at Simon Fraser University and Kwantlen University-College in
Vancouver.
E.
F. (T/ED) DYCK 2000 & 2007 Festivals
- Born in Turnhill, Saskatchewan, now resident of Red Deer, Alberta
- Edited Grain magazine 1980-83
- Publications include Apostrophes to Myself (Oolichan), Pisscat
Songs(Brick) and The Mossbank Canon (Turnstone)
MARK ELFORD2007 Festival
LORNE ELLIOTT (ON) 1999
Festival
Humorist, storyteller, comedian and musician and host of CBC Radio's "Madly Off In
All Directions".
THE ELLIOTTS 1997
Festival
- masters of cowboy poetry. Includes father, Dave and sons Mark
and twins Kirk and Kyle
- live on a ranch near Maple Creek, Saskatchewan
PETER EYVINDSON
2000 Festival
- Passionate about books and teaching children about them
- A lively, energetic performer
- His works include 13 titles for children, among them A Crow Named
Joe, Jen and the Great One, and Red Parka Mary.
- A trip to Haiti inspired him to write Soni's Mended Wings,
from which royalties go to Wings of Hope, the home created by street
children
for disabled children
FLOYD FAVEL 2002
Festival
- works as a theatre and dance artist, writer and
performer.
- has worked or presented in such venues as The National Theatre School
of Canada, Native Earth Performing Arts, The Banff Centre for the Arts,
The Catalyst Theatre, 25th St. Theatre, The Globe Theatre, Gwandaak
Theatre Adventures, The Canada Dance Festival, Festival
d'Avignon/France, Montreal Playwrights Workshop, The Citadel Theatre,
New Dance Horizons, Wanuskewin Dance Troupe, Muskwacis Native Dance
Theatre, Fujiwara Dance Inventions.
- involved in ongoing development of performance theory called Native
Performance Culture. He is one of the founders of The Centre for
Indigenous Theatre.
BRIAN FAWCETT 2004
Festival
-chairman of the Writers Union of Canada, served as editor
of Books in Canada
- His recent book Virtual Clearcut: Or The Way Things Are In My
Hometown has been described as one of the best non-fiction books
ever to come out of Canada. For this book, Fawcett received the
Pearson Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize in 2004.
WILL FERGUSON 2002 & 2005 Festivals
- won the Canadian
Author Association Award for History FOR Canadian History for
Dummies.
- debut novel, Generica (re-titled HappinessTM
abroad)
won the 2002 Leacock Medal for Humour.
- in 2002, he was short-listed for the Stephen Leacock
Medal...twice.
GEORGE FETHERLING 2007 Festival
JOY FIELDING 2005 Festival
WES FINEDAY 2003 Festival
CHRIS FISHER 2000
and 2004 Festival
- Began writing seriously in 1979-80 while resident in Moose Jaw
- Current publications Sun Angel (Coteau) and Voices in the
Wilderness (Hagios Press)
- Saskatchewan Writers Guild Award winner
- Chris Fisher's new book, Third and Long, is a collection of
short stories about sports in small towns.
SHEREE
FITCH 2000
Festival
- Versatile poet, playwright, storyteller, author, educator, activist
and children's writer.
- Winner of the 2000 Vicky Metcalf Body of Work Award honouring writing
inspirational to Canadian youth
- Has read all over Canada, in Mexico, Belize, Bhutan, Kenya, Uganda
and Tanzania
- Mabel Murple won the Ann Connor Briner award for Children's
Literature
- There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen! garnered the Mr. Christie
Book Award
- She lives on Chocolate Lake, near Halifax, Nova Scotia.
ALLAN FOTHERINGHAM 2000
Festival
- A native of Hearne, Saskatchewan
- Columnist for Maclean's Magazine (appearing on the last page for
the past 25 years)
- Winner of the National Magazine Award for humour
- First winner of the National Newspaper Award for column writing
- Inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame in 1999
PATRICK FRIESEN
2004
Festival
- has published 11 books of poetry. He has also written two full-length
plays which were staged at the Prairie Theatre Exchange in
Winnipeg.
-short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay Award (BC Book Awards) for the
best book of poetry in BC in 1998, and again in 2003.
For more information, contact word.festival@sasktel.net
Last updated: April 17, 2008