THE NAKED EAR (AB) 1999 Festival
Jazz-poetry performance troupe performing a multimedia experience based on Richard Stevenson's poetry and an art installation by Marlene Menard. Their sessions cover a range of aesthetics and a variety of styles.
JOSEPH NAYTOWHOW 1997
Festival
- popular attraction at folk, cultural and
children's
festivals
- singer with various native drum groups
NIKAMOK 2003 Festival
SUZANNE NORTH
2002 Festival
- born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, and now
lives in
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
- Before she began writing mysteries, she wrote
for magazines for CBC Television, and scripted a number of documentary
movies.
- North's two books -- Healthy, Wealthy and Dead and
Seeing is
Deceiving -- star filmmaker Phoebe Fairfax.
SHELDON OBERMAN 2001 Festival
- Winnipeg teacher, storyteller, and author writes for
film, theatre, newspapers, and works with Fred Penner writing songs
- Oberman presents talks, creative writing and storytelling workshops
across Canada
- books include The White Stone in the Castle
Wall, The Always Prayer Shawl, This Business
with Elijah and
The Shaman's Nephew: A Life in the Far North
STEPHEN ONDA* (SK) 1999
and
2001 Festival
- Award-winning producer (including TV movie Guitarman).
- Producer of the feature film Conquest
- president of Heartland Motion
Pictures, a production company, 1987 - 2000
KENNETH
OPPEL 2004
Festival
- Oppel has written over twenty books for young readers, including the
best selling Silverwing trilogy: Silverwing, Sunwing
and Firewing
- published two books in 2004: a fantasy adventure novel called Airborn,
and a picture book, Peg and the Yeti
Top
NELOFER PAZIRA 2006 Festival
KIT PEARSON
(BC) 1999 Festival
- Looking at the Moon (Viking Kestrel, 1991) nominated for the
Governor General's Award.
- The Sky is Falling (Viking Kestrel, 1989) won Book of the
Year for Children Award, Canadian Library Association, Inaugural Mr.
Christie
Book Award, Geoffrey Bilson Award for historical fiction for young
people
and a short-list citation for the Governor-General's Award.
- Her newest book is Awake and Dreaming.
PATRICIA PEARSON 2006 Festival
ELIZABETH PHILIPS 2001 Festival
- the author of four books of poetry:
Breaking Through Ice (a
chapbook), Time in a Green Country, Beyond My Keeping,
and A Blue with Blood
In It
- twice won the Poetry Award from the Saskatchewan Book
Awards
- the editor of the
literary magazine Grain.
POETREE AND FRIENDS 1997
Festival
- production of BBS Television in Yorkton for the Baton Television
System
- won gold in the children's series category at the National CanPro
Competition in 1991, '92, '93, '95 and '96
THELMA
POIRER (SK) 1999
Festival
- Non-fiction writer and editor of Cowgirls: One Hundred Years of
Writing the Range (1998).
- Her latest work is Rock Creek (Coteau, 1998)
PAMELA PORTER 2006 Festival
PRAIRIE PATCH
(SK) 1999 Festival
- Sylvia Chave and Clare Pattison make up Prairie Patch.
- Their animated, spirited performance draws energy from the enthusiasm
of the audience. Children love their lively, vibrant music.
PRAIRIE WOMEN (SK) Anne
Slade,
Doris Bircham, Judy Nelson 1999
Festival
- Anne Slade, Doris
Bircham, and Judy Nelson present a birth to death cycle of poems, songs
and prose that portrays the role of women on the prairies from
pre-historic
times to the present. - Bircham and Slade are rural Saskatchewan
residents, while Judy Nelson is now living in B.C
HEATHER PRINGLE 2007 Festival
PHYLLIS RATHWELL 2005 Festival
MICHAEL REDHILL 2003 Festival
DOLORES REIMER 2004
Festival
- The author of a short story collection, Ladies And
Escorts,
- the co-editor of three sports books from Arsenal Pulp Press.
- Although Stone Baby, Hagios Press, Spring 2004, is her first
collection of poetry
NINO
RICCI 2000 Festival
- Lives of the Saints garnered the Governor General's Award,
the W. H. Smith/Books in Canada,
the First Novel Award and the F. G. Bressani Prize.
- Lives of the Saints, first novel of a trilogy, which continued
with In a Glass House, and Where She Has Gone
- Past president of the Canadian Centre of International PEN, a
writers'
human rights organization
that works for freedom of expression
BRUCE RICE
2004
Festival
- Bruce Rice has published three books of poetry.
- The Illustrated Statue of Liberty won the City of Regina Book
Award, 2003 and was a runner-up in the John V. Hick’s manuscript
competition.
- received Grain Magazine’s 2002 Anne Szumigalksi Award for the best
poem published that year.
DAVID
RICHARDS 1999 & 2005 Festivals
- Author of Soldier Boys and the soon to be released The
Lady of Batoche
- Winner of the 1997 Sterling Newspaper Award in non-fiction.
DAVID ADAMS RICHARDS 2004
Festival
- He has written close to twenty books about New Brunswick and is one
of only three Canadian writers to receive the Governor General’s Award
for both fiction and non-fiction.
- In 2002 Richards was the co-winner of the Giller Prize for his novel,
Mercy Among the Children.
- River of the Broken-Hearted, 2003 is his latest publication.
NOAH RICHLER 2007 Festival
TERRY F.
RIGELHOF 2002 & 2005 Festivals
- a Contributing Reviewer to The Globe and Mail’s
“Books” section, a frequent contributor to Books in Canada
and CNQ, and the author of seven books - two novels, a novella,
a collection of short stories, a memoir, a book of essays and a brief
biography.
- born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan and lives in Westmount,
Quebec
- a member of the editorial board of XYZ’s Quest Library and
written a brief biography for them - George Grant: Redefining Canada.
- Shortlisted, for the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction,
for A Blue Boy in a Black Dress, 1996.
Winner of the QSPELL-Royal Bank of Canada Award for Non-Fiction, for
A Blue Boy in a Black Dress, 1996.
ERIKA
RITTER 2000 Festival
- Studied drama at McGill University in Montreal
- Automatic Pilot won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
and an ACTRA for Best Radio Drama
- Radio broadcast work earned her an ACTRA Award for Best Host
TOM ROBERTS 2006 Festival
WILLIAM B. ROBERTSON 1997
Festival
- freelance writer and broadcaster
- published three books of poetry and a biography of K.D. Lang
J. JILL ROBINSON 2004
Festival
- the author of three collections of fiction
- her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals across
Canada.
- Residual Desire, won the 2003 Award for Fiction and the
Saskatoon Book Award at the Saskatchewan Book Awards.
MANSEL
ROBINSON 2004
Festival
-His plays have been produced across the country and include Collateral
Damage, Colonial Tongues, The Heart As It Lived, Downsizing
Democracy, Rock ‘n Rail: Ghost Trains and Spitting Slag
PETER ROBINSON
2005 Festival
SHELAGH ROGERS 2003, 2004
& 2007 Festival
-Shelagh Rogers is a twenty plus-year veteran of CBC Radio.
-Previously, she hosted the flagship current affairs program This
Morning
- recipient of the John Drainie Award for Outstanding Contribution to
Canadian Broadcasting
- current host of the program CBC radio program, Sounds Like Canada
LEON
ROOKE 2004
Festival
- Leon Rooke is the author of six novels, including the Governor
General's Award winning novel Shakespeare's Dog,
- The Fall of Gravity, one of the top books of 2000 as chosen by
the Globe and Mail
-short story collection Painting the Dog.
JOE
ROSENBLATT 2004
Festival
- He is a poet, author and artist.
- has published more than a dozen books of poetry and fiction.
- Top Soil: Selected Poems 1962-1975 won the Governor General’s
Award;
- Poetry Hotel: Selected Poems 1963-1985 won the BC Book Prize in
1986
J. FRANK ROY 2006
Festival
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Last updated: April 17, 2008