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STEVEN GALLOWAY     2006 Festival

LARRY GASPER    2005 Festival

CONNIE GAULT      2002 Festival
 - writes fiction and plays. Her second collection of stories, Inspection of a Small Village (Coteau, 1996), won the City of Regina Book Award.  
 - has written plays for radio and the stage, including Otherwise Bob, The Soft Eclipse and Sky.  Her most recent play, Red Lips, premiered at Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary in 2001.  
 - has been an active member of the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre and the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild Colony Committee. She is a former fiction editor of Grain magazine and currently sits on the Grain Committee

GARRY GEDDES      2002 Festival
 - He taught English and Creative Writing widely throughout Canada, but mainly at Concordia University in Montreal from 1978-1998, after which he was given an honorary three-year appointment as Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture in the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University in Bellingham
 - has written and edited more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, criticism, translation and anthologies.
 - His best-known anthologies, 20th-Century Poetry & Poetics and 15 Canadian Poets (both from Oxford) have gone into numerous editions, have had an enormous impact on the teaching and writing of poetry in Canada. 

JOANNE GERBER     1998 Festival
-Winner City of Regina writing award
-Nominated for Journey Prize, SWG Literary Awards
-1997 winner at the Saskatchewan Book Awards for In the Misleading Absence of Light (Coteau, 1997), a volume of short stories.

JAMES GEREIN 2001 Festival
-  a popular Regina Performance poet at coffee houses and poetry slams

BRANIMIR GJETVEJ 2007 Festival

CAMILLA GIBB  2005 Festival

GRAEME GIBSON     2006 Festival

DAVID GILMOUR     2006 Festival

HOWARD GLASSMAN 2007 Festival

DAVE GLAZE     2000, 2005 & 2006 Festivals
- Walter the pelican puppet lends Dave support
- Pelly and Who Took Henry and Mr. Z? both  received The Canadian Children's Book Centre Choice Award

MARTYN GODFREY    1997 Festival
- popular Canadian writer of books for young people
- author of the Carol and Wally series and has published more than 30 children's books

BILL GOMMERSALL      2004 Festival
- Bill Gommersall is in his nineties and is well known for his ballad recitations.

ZAFFI GOUSOPOULOS   2000 Festival
- Musical CD: The Queen's Incurable Inglish, companion to poetry collection the bride of Inglish
- Her video, Bubble Gum Alley, aired for several weeks on Much Music,and was screened at film festivals in Chicago, San Francisco and Toronto

KATHERINE GOVIER      2004 Festival
-She is the author of 8 novels and 3 short story collections. 
- Her most recent works include Creation 2002 and Solo: Writers on Pilgrimage, 2004. 
- In 1997 she received the Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career, and in 1998 she was given the Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of Alberta.

LEE GOWAN     1998 Festival
- National Magazine Awards nominee
- screenplay,Paris or Somewhere ,won 14 awards and three Gemini award nominations
-Book titles: Going to Cuba; The Lost Work of Jonathan(Coteau)

SUE GOYETTE 2003 Festival

REBECCA GRAMBO 2007 Festival

JOHN MACLACHLAN GRAY 2007 Festival

FRANCES GREENSLADE 2003 Festival

LESLIE GREENTREE      2004 Festival
- She has published two books of poetry: guys named Bill (Frontenac House, 2002) and go-go dancing for Elvis (Frontenac House, 2003).  
- She was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize for Poetry

DENNIS GRUENDING     1998 Festival
-Former CBC radio host, currently Parliamentary secretary to Palliser Constituency MP
-Author of Gringo , (Coteau), Promises to Keep, (Western Producer Prairie Books), Emmett Hall: Establishment Radical, (MacMillan of Canada). His newest book is The Middle of Nowhere (Fifth House), a collection of historical writings about Saskatchewan.

TOM GRUMMETT    1997 & 2005 Festivals
- self-taught artist with experience in graphic arts, cartooning and illustration
- illustrator for DC and Marvel Comics, including Superman in Action series.

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JERRY HAIGH         2004 Festival
- Haigh is well known for his more than 300 scientific, extension-related articles and his textbook entitled Farming Wapiti and Red Deer. 
- He has now recorded his memoirs in his latest publication Wrestling With Rhinos: The Adventures of a Glasgow Vet in Kenya.

LOUISE  BERNICE HALFE    1997 and 2003 Festivals
- her first book of poems Bear Bones and Feathers was widely praised as   "an eye-opening journey into other worlds."
- Cree name is Sky Dancer.  Born and raised on the Saddle Lake Reserve in Alberta.

PHIL HALL 2003 Festival

MARILYN HALVORSON      1998 Festival
-Cattle rancher, junior high school teacher and author from Sundre, Alberta
-Cowboys Don’t Cry, winner 1983 Clarke-Irwin Alberta Culture Writing for Youth competition,
-Authored 13 books, the latest being Brothers and Strangers (Stoddard) and Stranger on the Run (Stoddard).

DALLAS HARRISON    1997 Festival
- born and raised in Saskatchewan, now is a writer and editor living in Vancouver.
- has had essays published on the writings of Sharon Butala, Sinclair Ross and Sandra Birdsell.

RICHARD HARRISON     2005 Festival

DEBBIE HAWARD    1997 Festival
- writes TV commercials
- writer for the Can-Pro Award winning children's show Poetree and Friends.

STEVEN HEIGHTON       2004 Festival
- Steven Heighton is the author of the best-selling novel, The Shadow Boxer. 
- His work has been translated into several languages, has been internationally anthologized, and has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Award, the Push Cart Prize, and Britain’s W.H. Smith Award, for best book of the year.

MICHAEL HELM 2007 Festival

ARETHA VAN HERK      2002 Festival
 - a novelist, short story writer, editor, literary critic and feminist. She was born in Wetaskiwin, Alberta in 1954 to Dutch immigrants, Meretje (van Dam) and William Herk and was raised on a farm.
 - nominated for the Governor General's Award for fiction for No Fixed Address: An Amorous Journey (1986)
 - her essays and short stories have been published in numerous journals, magazines and newspaper

TREVOR HERRIOT 2001 Festival
- Saskatchewan naturalist, writer, and illustrator
- River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage was short-listed for the 2000 Governor General's Award for non-fiction

TIM HILDEBRAND 2001 Festival
- a talented improv actor
- represented Saskatchewan at the prestigious "Just for Laughs" trial competition

GERALD HILL      2002 & 2005 Festivals
 - Poetry books include: Getting to Know You, 2002 The Man From Saskatchewan,  2001 and Heartwood, 1985
 - published in 2001 Their Names Live On: Remembering Saskatchewan's Fallen in World War II (with Doug Chisholm).  
 - has edited several anthologies including Ice: New Writing About Hockey, 1999 and In the Clear, 1998.

LAWRENCE HILL 2007 Festival

RICK HILLIS     2000 Festival
- Winner of the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize for his short story collection Limbo River
- Presently a resident of Portland, Oregon where he teaches

BRITT HOLMSTROM 2003 Festival

POLLY HORVATH     2005 Festival

KEN HOWE 2001 Festival
- book of poetry Household Hints for the End of Time was published in 2000
- He was a Jesuit novice for two years.

AISLINN HUNTER   2004 Festival
- Her poetry collection Into The Early Hours (Polestar, 2001) won the Gerald Lampert Award and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Prize.
- What’s Left Us, her critically acclaimed story collection, also published in 2001, was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award and won Silver in ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards

BRUCE HUNTER     2000 Festival
- Winner of the People's Poetry Award
- Stories from Country Music Country broadcast on CBC Radio
- Coming Home from Home (poetry) is his newest book

MEL HURTIG 2003 Festival

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GORDON JOHNSON   2002 Festival
 - born in Cabri, Saskatchewan. Attended the University of Regina.
 - taught school for 30 years.  He has assisted in developing school based programs of the natural and human history of Wakamow valley. 
 - He does coach tours with out of town groups for Moose Jaw Tourism and is a narrator conductor on the trolley.

SHIRLEY JOHNSON    1997 Festival
- released her first children's album, Teach Me Well, in 1994
- teacher and writer of music

YVONNE JOHNSON     1998 Festival
-Great-great granddaughter of Big Bear
-Member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan
-Co-author with Rudy Wiebe of Stolen Life:The Journey of a Cree Woman (Random House, 1998)

TERRY JORDAN (PQ)    1999 Festival
- Latest novel Beneath that Starry Place (HarperCollins,1998)
- short story collection, Its a Hard Cow, won the 1994 Saskatchewan Book Award & was shortlisted for Commonwealth Book Award.

CLIFTON JOSEPH     2000 Festival
- Dub poet and writer
- Double Gemini award winner
- His book of poetry is Metropolitan Blues, his CD Oral Trans/mission

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CONNIE KALDOR    2000 Festival
- Hails from Canada's prairie heartland
- Recognized with numerous accolades among them a JUNO Award
- Noted for down-to-earth charm and wry humour
- Newest CD release Love is a Truck

ARLENE & ROBIN KARPAN (SK)    1999 Festival
- Internationally published writers and photographers.
- Their first book Northern Sandscapes - Exploring Saskatchewan's Athabasca Sand Dunes was nominated in two categories for the Saskatchewan Book Awards: Best Non-Fiction and the Award for Publishing.
- Latest work is Saskatchewan Trails (May, 1999)

GUY GAVRIEL KAY    2002 & 2007 Festivals
- Lord of Emperors nominated for World Fantasy Award, Sunburst Award and Mythopoeic Award.
- assisted in editing Tolkien's fragmentary and uncompleted The Silmarillion.
- Kay's newest project is his two-volume Sarantine Mosaic, consisting  of 1999's Sailing to Sarantium and 2000's Lord of Emperors, set in a fantasy world modeled on ancient Byzantium.

TERRY (M.T.) KELLY  (ON)    1999 Festival
- Winner of the Governor-Generals Award in 1987 for A Dream Like Mine.
- Latest novel, the critically acclaimed Save Me, Joe Louis (Stoddard, 1998)

DON KERR (SK)    1999 Festival
- Author of four collections of poetry: Talkin Basie (Cormorant, 1990), Going Places (1983) and In The City of Our Fathers (1992)
- Poems & plays broadcast on CBC National & Saskatchewan Radio

KEVIN KERR 2003 Festival

RICHARD KERR     1998 Festival
-Teaches film at the University of Regina
-Makes film essays, experimental films, documentaries and innovative features
Films: The Willing Voyeur (feature); Marshall McLuhan (documentary)

BOB KING     2000 Festival
- Has written television scripts for Fred Penner's Place
- "Sitting on the Farm" is a song available in book and CD form
- Has performed with the Symphony Orchestras of Edmonton, Winnipeg and London.
- JUNO Award winner

ROB KING     1998 Festival
-Award-winning Saskatchewan writer, director, producer
-owner-producer, Mind’s Eye Pictures
-Credits include Talker, The Dukes, and segments of The Incredible Story Studio

ROSS KING(England)    1999 Festival
Grew up in North Portal, Saskatchewan. Novelist whose first book Domino (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995) has been translated into six languages and his second novel Ex-Libris (Chatto & Windus, 1998) was published to rave reviews.

BARBARA KLAR     2000 Festival
- Edited poetry for Spring, a Saskatchewan Writers Guild publication
- Recognized by the League of Canadian Poets with the Gerald Lampert Award
- The Night You Called Me a Shadow (Coteau)
- The Blue Field (Coteau)

TONJA GUNVALDSEN KLAASSEN 2003 Festival

TREENA KORTJE 2001 Festival
- award-winning Poet, Fiction Writer and Performance Artist
- has given readings, performances, workshops, and adjudications throughout Canada
- founding member of the Twenty Fifth Street Theatre's Annual Women's Festival and Young Adults Drama Development Association (YADDA)

MYRNA KOSTASH (AB)    1999 & 2006 Festivals
- Twice winner of Alberta Culture and Writers' Guild of Alberta prize for Best Non-fiction for No Kidding : Inside the World of Teenage Girls (1988) & Bloodlines (1994).

MARYANN KOVALSKI (ON)    1999 Festival
- Children's author and illustrator of Wheels on the Bus, and Take Me Out to the Ballgame.
- Her illustrations for The Big Storm (Kids Can Press 1992) by Rhea Tregebov was nominated for a Governor-Generals Award.
- Writer & illustrator of Queen Nadine (Orca, 1998) & Mable Murple (Doubleday, 1995)

JUDITH KRAUSE 2001 Festival
- award-winning Regina poet, editor and teacher 
- co-editor of Out of Place, an anthology of stories and poems
- served as poetry editor for Sundog Highway, a new anthology of Saskatchewan writing

ROBERT KROETSCH 2001 & 2007 Festivals
- has published nine novels, including The Words of My Roaring, and What the Crow Said, and numerous volumes of poetry as well as essays, a travel book and a personal journal
- his novel, The Studhorse Man, received the Governor General's award for fiction in 1969

JANICE KULYK KEEFER     2000 and 2004 Festival
- Recipient  of the Marian Engel Award (recognition for body of work)
- Twice winner of the CBC Radio Literary Competition for Fiction
- Works include The Green Library (novel) and Honey and Ashes (memoir)
- Marrying the Sea  (poetry) 1999 Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award

LELAND KLASSEN      2004 Festival
- Leland Klassen is a seasoned performer with experience in radio, television, stand-up shows and comedy. 
- Audiences are captivated by Leland's clean and comfortable stage presence.

MICHAEL KUSUGAK 2001 Festival
- children's author from the Northwest Territories
- author of A Promise is a Promise, based on one of Michael's childhood memories
- author of Baseball Bats for Christmas, Hide and Sneak, Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails, My Arctic 1,2,3, Arctic Stories and Who Wants Rocks?

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