CHERYL L'HIRONDELLE 1997
Festival
- performs with "New-atum", a group of women singers in Regina
- recorded with Canadian musicians; featured on the Gabriel Dumont
Institute's CD Singing To Keep Time
PATRICK
LANE 2000 and
2004 Festival
- Has been called the finest poet of his generation
- Translated into 16 languages
- Governor General's Award winner for Poems: New and Selected
- Newest publication Selected Poems 1977 - 1997
JOHN LARSEN 2001 Festival
- Moose Jaw: The Whole Story is his first book
- he came to
know the story of Moose Jaw when he was stationed at 15 Wing as the
base Public Affairs Officer from
1993-1996
EILEEN LAVERTY 2006 Festival
KATHERINE LAWRENCE 2002 & 2007 Festivals
- has lived in Saskatoon since 1982 and is originally from
Hamilton, Ontario.
- Her first book of poetry, Ring Finger, Left Hand,
released by Coteau Books, won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Best
First Book 2001.
-works as a communications specialist in the health care
sector.
DENNIS LEE 2003 Festival
JOHN B. LEE 2001 Festival
- the only two-time
winner of the Milton
Acorn Memorial People's Poetry Award
- has edited five major
anthologies of Canadian writing
SHELLEY LEEDAHL
2002, 2003 and 2004 Festivals
-
Orchestra of
the Lost Steps, was recognized with a 2001 John V. Hicks Manuscript
Award.
- Talking Down the Northern Lights, her latest book of
poetry, was
nominated for the Saskatoon Book of the Year, and the Poetry Award at
the 2001 Saskatchewan Book Awards.
- She has taught the Sage Hill Youth Writing Camp for teen
writers, has
served as a poetry, fiction and nonfiction editor for Saskatchewan
magazines, and has enjoyed several creative writing residencies in
schools.
- Shelley's
website
RICHARD LEMM 2001 Festival
- has published four poetry collections
- won the 1991 Canadian Authors' Association Award for poetry for
Prelude
to the Bacchanal
MAURICE R. LIBBY 2001 Festival
- has had poems, articles, and reviews published in a
number of
newspapers and magazines
- wrote a play for the Fringe Festival in Kingston, Ontario
- Moose Jaw: The Whole Story is his first book.
TIM LILBURN 2001 and 2004 Festival
- Tim Lilburn has published six books of poetry,
including Kill-site, 2003
- editor of a collection of essays on poetics,
Poetry and Knowing:
Speculative Essays and Interviews (1995)
- author of Living in the World as if It Were Home (1999), a
book of essays concerned with ecology
and desire
ALISON
LOHANS 2000 Festival
- Writing since the age of 9, first published at 12
- Wrote the musical score to Nathaniel's Violin (her children's
book) for young string players
- Winner of multiple Canadian Children's Book Centre "Our Choice"
awards
- Saskatchewan Writer's Guild Major Award Winner
RANDY LUNDY 2000
Festival
- Under the Midnight Sun (poetry collection) a 1999 Saskatchewan
Book Award winner
- Resident of Regina affiliated with the Saskatchewan Indian Federated
College
JEANETTE LYNES 2006 Festival
DAVID MACFARLANE 2002
Festival
-
began his career as a writer and editor with Weekend Magazine
and has
since been published in Saturday Night, Maclean's,
Toronto
Life, and Books in Canada.
-He has written and
produced a documentary and won a Gemini for his television
work.
- co-winner of the 2000 Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel
Award (Summer Gone)
Shortlisted for the 1999 Giller Prize (Summer Gone)
ROD P. MacINTYRE 1997
Festival
- fiction writer and playwright; published works include Yuletide
Blues, The Blue Camaro, Blue Zone and Nice Guy.
- winner of the Vicky Metcalf Short Story Award and the Saskatchewan
Writers Guild Long Manuscript Drama Award.
ALISTAIR MACLEOD 2001
Festival
- has published two internationally acclaimed collections
of
short stories: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and
As Birds Bring
Forth the Sun (1986)
- his first novel, No Great
Mischief, won several awards, including the IMPAC Dublin Prize, the
world's richest literary award
SUE MACLEOD 2003 Festival
ROY MACSKIMMING 2004
Festival
-latest book, The Perilous Trade: Publishing Canada's Writers,
draws on a professional lifetime in and around the publishing industry.
-earlier works include two novels with European settings: Formentera
(set in the Balearic Islands) and Out of Love (set in Athens
and Crete).
- He has also written an unauthorized biography of hockey legend Gordie
Howe and a reassessment of the 1972 Canada-Soviet series
MADLY
OFF IN ALL DIRECTIONS
1999 Festival
- A special comedy performance of the popular CBC radio show featuring
Lorne Elliott and a crew of Canada's top comics.
KEVIN MAJOR 2001 Festival
- award winning author of
ten novels for young adult
readers. These include Hold Fast and Dear Bruce
Springsteen
- winner of the Canadian Library Association 1991
Book-of-the-Year, for
Eating Between
the Lines
VICTOR MALAREK 2005 Festival
MURRAY MALCOLM 2006 Festival
MICHEL
MARCHILDON 2000
Festival
- Regina based singer-songwriter who has won international recognition
- Debut CD, Changer de Peau, a highly individual blend
of poetry and music
- Served as Artist in Residence in his home community of Zenon Park
DAVE
MARGOSHES 1998, 2001 and
2003 Festivals
-Regina fiction writer and poet
-Recent awards: co-winner of the Prairie Fire novella
contest, second prize winner,Grain postcard story and Saltwater
poetry contests
-his most recent books are Purity
of Absence, a collection of poetry, and
I’m Frankie Sterne, a novel, from NeWest Press
YANN MARTEL 2003 Festival
SID MARTY 2001
Festival
- a full-time author and
part-time musician
- has published four books of non-fiction and three of
poetry, some of which are based upon his experiences as a park warden
in
the Rocky Mountain national parks
TERRI MASON 1998
Festival
-Lives on the banks of the Bow River with her husband,
Rusty Black
-Garnered 52 scars, with stories to match, as guide,
outfitter and horse logger
-Author of Living On Cowboy Wages and
contributing
poet to Cowgirls, 100 Years of Writing the Range
JENI MAYER 1998
Festival
-Ardent promoter of Saskatchewan talent in the arts
-Mystery novels for children her forte.
-Titles are The Mystery of the Turtle Lake
Monster (Thistledown, 1990), The Mystery of the Missing Will
(Thistledown, 1992) and The Mystery of Suspicion Island (Thistledown,
1993).
DON MCKAY 1997
and 2002
Festivals
-
taught English literature and creative writing for twenty-seven
years at U. W. O. and U.N.B.
- served as a
faculty resource person at the Sage Hill Writing Experience and the
Banff Centre
for the Arts, where he currently functions as Associate Director for
poetry.
- Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry: Birding, or
desire 1983
- Governor General's Awards for poetry: Night
Field 1991
and Another Gravity 2000
- Governor General's Award nominations: 1983, 1991, 1997, 2000
MURRAY MCLAUCHLAN 2007 Festival
DON MCLEAN 2000
Festival
- Experienced researcher
- Published articles in New Breed Magazine
- Time of the Seventh Fire is his first novel
JAMES S. McLEAN 1997
AND 2000 Festival
- has had several plays produced for the Sask. Dept. of
Education
and broadcast by the CBC
- included in several anthologies, illustrated Wildflowers Across
the Prairies and wrote The Secret Life of Railroaders, a
poetry
collection.
- former Moose Jaw resident and member of the Moose Jaw Movement now
living in Calgary
GORDON McLENNAN 1998
Festival
-Writer, director and producer with Reel Eye Media
-Saskatchewan award winner
-Credits include The Play’s
the
Thing,
The Last Word from Moose Jaw, The
Trickster,
Paris or Somewhere
JAMES
MCWILLIAMS 2002
Festival
- born and raised in Moose Jaw and district.
- taught high school in Moose Jaw from 1967 to 1993.
- was Pipe Major/Band Director of the White Hackle Pipe
Band for
over 20 years.
- instrumental in establishing the Saskatchewan Summer School of
the
Arts at Fort Qu’Appelle in mid-1960’s, and served as Principal for the
School of Piping and Drumming held there.
- first book -- The Suicide
Battalion, the story of the 46th South Saskatchewan Battalion from
Moose Jaw,
written in collaboration with R. James Steel. Has collaborated on two
other books dealing with the First World War -- Gas! The Battle For
Ypres,
1915, and Amiens: Dawn of Victory.
GEORGE MELNYK 2001
Festival
- founded
NeWest Review and NeWest
Press in the 1970s
- published a trilogy of essay collections about the West
COURTNEY
MILNE 2000 & 2005 Festivals
- Saskatchewan photographer and lecturer with a world-wide reputation
- W. O. Mitchell Country combines text (by Orm Mitchell and
his wife, Sandra) and photographs in a moving tribute to W. O. Mitchell
ROHINTON MISTRY 2004
Festival
- In 1991, Rohinton won the Governor General’s Award, the Commonwealth
Writers’ Prize for Best Book and the W.H. Smith Books in Canada First
Novel Award for Such A Long Journey.
- His second novel, A Fine Balance, won the Giller Prize in
1995 and his third and latest, Family Matters, was long-listed
for the 2002 Booker Prize.
KEN
MITCHELL 1997,
2000, 2004 & 2007 Festivals
- Colourful storyteller born and raised in Moose Jaw
- Gone the Burning Sun named Best Canadian Play by Canadian
Authors' Association
- Successful playwright, dramatist, and fiction writer whose theme
is often the Western Canadian experience
WAYNE MITCHELL
2004
Festival
- performs his own cowboy poetry as well as other selected works.
LYNDA MONAHAN (SK) 1999
Festival
- Poet and creative writing instructor whose poetry collection Slow
Dance in the Flames, (Coteau,1998) was nominated for Saskatchewan
Book
Award in publishing.
- Her work has appeared in Grain, Museletters, & Zygote
and has aired on CBC Radio.
CHARLES MONTGOMERY 2005 Festival
YVETTE MOORE
(SK) 1998 and 1999 Festival
-Moose Jaw artist and illustrator of A Prairie Alphabet (winner
in 1992 of a Mr. Christie Book Award for the best illustrated
children's
book in Canada) and A Prairie Year.
SHANI MOOTO 2005 Festival
WENDY MORTON 2006 Festival
DANIEL
D. MOSES 2000
Festival
- Poet and playwright concerned with universal themes of spirituality,
self-identity and human relationships
- Winner of the James Buller Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Theatre
- The Moon and Dead Indians won the DuMaurier One Act
Playwriting
Competition
MOOSE JAW MOVEMENT
2000 Festival
- Formed in the fall of 1975 and held its first public reading in June
of 1976.
- Original members Judith Krause, Byrna Barclay, Lorna Crozier, Robert
Currie, Ed Dyck, Gary Hyland, Jim McLean, and Rafe Ring have gone on to
publish over 35 books of poetry and prose.
- The first six of these will reunite for the first Moose Jaw Movement
reading since April of 1981.
HELEN MOURRE (SK) 1999
and 2004
Festival
- Short story writer whose first collection, Landlocked was
published by Thistledown in 1997.
- Work has appeared in "NeWest Review", "Grain", and "Western People".
COLLEEN MURPHY 2007 Festival
REX MURPHY 1997
Festival
- one of Canada's foremost commentators on public issues
- radio host and regular contributor to several television shows
SUSAN
MUSGRAVE (BC) 1999
Festival
- Nominated for Governor-General's Award for poetry & the Stephen
Leacock Award for humour.
- She is the author of eighteen books including Things That Keep
and Do Not Change (McClelland & Stewart, 1999) & Musgrave
Landing (Stoddart, 1994).
- Poetry "like a shotgun to the heart" (Maclean's)