ALLAN SAFARIK 2001, 2004 & 2007 Festival
- poet, editor, all around utility writer, publisher and
print consultant is the author of nine books of poetry
- won the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Poetry award in
1996, the Saskatchewan Writers Guild non-fiction award in 1994, and the
City of Vancouver Centennial Book
Award in 1986
- His latest work is Blood of Angels (2003). He is also the
editor of the anthology of Vancouver Poetry and co-editor of four
sports books.
BARBARA
SAPERGIA 1997, 2000 &
2006 Festivals
- Co-founder and current Board member of Coteau Books
- Co-creator of pre-school television series Prairie Berry Pie!
- Twice winner of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Award for Drama;
newest
novel Secrets in Water
- has had several plays produced on radio, television and stage
including Matty & Rose andThe Great Orlando
JOHN RALSTON SAUL 2006 Festival
CANDACE SAVAGE 1997, 2002 &
2005 Festivals
- author of 19 books, many of which focus on the natural world
- her work has been honoured by Children's Literature Roundtables of
Canada, the Children's Book Centre, The Saskatchewan and B.C. Book
Awards,
the Canadian Science Writers' Association, the American Library
Association
and the Rachel Carson Institute.
GLORIA SAWAI 2003 Festival
ROBERT SAWYER 2003 Festival
BRENDA SCHMIDT 2006 Festival
ANDREAS
SCHROEDER 2000
Festival
- Born in Germany, educated in British Columbia.
- Regular guest on the Basic Black radio show
- Poet, novelist, translator and non-fiction writer
- Fakes, Frauds and Flimflammery (1999) a non-fiction work
STEPHEN SCRIVER 1997 & 2006 Festivals
- published four books of poetry. Known as "the hockey poet"
- was Poet Laureate of the 1993 Peter Gzowski Open Golf Tournament
in Regina
SHIRLEY SERVISS 2002
Festival
- currently on contract as part of the University of Alberta
Hospital’s Artists-on-the-Ward program as a writer in residence
- Public Relations writing and editing instructor at Grant
MacEwan College
- Founded and operated a small literary press for
seven years
- Poetry collection, Reading Between the Lines (Rowan Books 2000)
DAVID SEYMOUR 2006 Festival
MAGGIE
SIGGINS 1998, 2002 & 2005 Festivals
- worked as a reporter for the Toronto Telegram, a writer for
Chatelaine,
Macleans, Toronto Life, Saturday Night, etc.
- worked as a TV producer and a columnist
- received the Arthur Ellis Crime Writers of Canada Award, 1986
forA Canadian Tragedy: JoAnn and Colin Thatcher,
- winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for
Non-Fiction,
1992 for Revenge of the Land
- Winner of the City of Regina, Best Book Award, 1994 and
2000.
BROCK SILVERSIDES 2001 Festival
- has
published over 3 dozen articles on historical and photographic
topics
- his books include Gateway To The North (1989), Face
Pullers: Photographing
Native Canadians 1871 - 1939 (1994), Waiting For The Light:
Early Mountain
Photography in British Columbia and Alberta 1865 -1965 (1995),
Prairie Sentinel:
The Story of the Canadian Grain Elevator (1997), Shooting
Cowboys: Photographing
Canadian Cowboy Culture (1997), and Looking West:
Photographing the Canadian
Prairies, 1858 - 1957. (1991)
JUDITH
SILVERTHORNE (SK) 1999
and 2004 Festival
- As executive-producer of television documentaries, freelance writer
for television, magazine, newspapers, and as a screenwriter, Judith
Silverthorne
has worked in a variety of capacities.
- She has written a biography, Made in Saskatchewan: Peter
Rupchan, Ukrainian Pioneer and Potter.
- Her children's novel, The Secret of Sentinel Rock, won the
1996 Saskatchewan Book Award, was short-listed for the Geoffrey Bilson
Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, and for the Saskatchewan
Book Award for Publishing in Education.
- She has written two other books for children, Dinosaur
Hideout and Dinosaur Breakout.
LOIS
SIMMIE (SK) 1997, 1999, 2003
& 2005 Festivals
- Non-fiction writer and winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur
Ellis Award for The Secret Lives of Sergeant John Wilson
(Greystone,
1995).
- Winner of Saskatchewan & Alberta Book Awards
ANNE SIMPSON 2007 Festival
MICHAEL SIMPSON
2004
Festival
- proficient performer on drum kit, guitar, and percussion,
-active as a music instructor and producer.
- He recently produced a CD featuring renowned Canadian poet Joe
Rosenblatt and singer Anna Baignoche, and is working on several other
recordings.
ANNE SLADE 1998
& 2007 Festival
-Writer, singer, storyteller
-Performed in festivals, schools and the Saskatchewan
Summer Reading program
-Available: Ponies, Pastures and Pals, book
&
cassette, Pocket Poems for Kids
ARTHUR
SLADE (SK) 1997, 1999, 2002 & 2007 Festival
- Novelist, Comic book writer
- His fiction has been broadcast on radio and published in a wide
variety
of magazines.
- His recent work is aimed at youth: The Haunting
of Drang Island, Tribes. 2002 and Dust. 2002.
- Dust won the Governor General's Award and a
Saskatchewan Book Award for Children's Literature
- Other credits are Hallowed Knight, the comic, Draugr,
as well as an audio-cassette Up Here There are Only Birds.
RUBY SLIPPERJACK 2005 Festival
STEVEN ROSS SMITH 1998 & 2006 Festivals
–Saskatoon sound/action poet and performer with DUCT,
improvisational sound and music ensemble he founded
–Newest works: Lures (Mercury Press, 1997), Reading
My Father’s Book (Wolsak & Wynn, 1995)
-Executive Director, Sage Hill Writing Experience
KAREN SOLIE
2002 & 2006 Festivals
- born in Moose Jaw and grew up on the family farm in
south-west Saskatchewan.
- Her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in numerous
North American journals, including "The Fiddlehead", "The Malahat
Review", "Event", "Indiana Review", "ARC", "Other Voices", and "The
Capilano Review".
- Her first book of poetry, Short Haul Engine (Brick
Books) recently garnered the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award 2002 and the
Griffin Poetry Prize 2002.
- currently lives in Victoria, BC, where she teaches English.
GLEN
SORESTAD 1997,
2000, 2001, 2002
and Festivals
- His poetry has been broadcast on CBC
- Co-founder with his wife Sonia of Thistledown Press
- Has read in every Canadian province, 15 states, and overseas in
France
and Norway
- author of over fourteen published works
- Poet laureate
of Saskatchewan
JOHN STEFFLER 2005 Festival
FRED STENSON 2002
and 2004
Festival
- has written eleven books. The Trade, was
nominated for
the 2000 Giller Prize and won the inaugural Grant MacEwan Writer's
Award, The
City of Edmonton Book Prize, and the Writers Guild of Alberta's George
Bugnet
novel award.
- Stenson has a regular humour column in Alberta Views
magazine. He has
been on the faculty of several Banff Centre for the Arts writing
programs and
was director of the Wired Writing Studio in 2001 and 2002.
- has been a professional scriptwriter for twenty-five years. He
has written scripts for over 130 produced films and videos. Recent
credits
include "The Great March," a two hour docudrama about the Mounted
Police march into western Canada in 1874, and two full seasons (26
episodes) of
the popular series "World of Horses," broadcast nationally by
Discovery Canada.
SUSAN STENSON 2007 Festival
RICHARD
STEVENSON (AB) 1999
Festival
- Author of 11 publications including A Murder of Crows: New &
Selected Poems (Black Moss, 1998)
- Reviewer and poet who performs with the jazz poetry troupe Naked
Ear
- Winner of the Pyrowords Literary Rose Award in 1997.
GERTRUDE
STORY 1997 and
2000 Festival
- Born on a farm near Sutherland, Sask.
- Former writer-in-residence in Moose Jaw
- One of Saskatchewan's best-known storytellers
- Has published five books of fiction, one children's book and two
collections of reflections, including her latest How to Saw Wood
With
an Angel
TREVOR STRONG 2006 Festival
ROSEMARY SULLIVAN 1997 & 2005 Festivals
- written poetry, criticism, short fiction and nonfiction, including
a biography of Elizabeth Smart
- By Heart was nominated for the Governor-General's Award for
nonfiction in 1992 and Shadowmaker won the Award in 1995.
MARGARET SWEATMAN 2002
Festival
- her novel, When Alice Lay Down with Peter
(Knopf,
2001), won the 2002 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Carol
Shields Book Award,
the
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and the McNally Robinson Book of
the
Year.
- Her plays (Fox, Hectic, and Flux) have
been produced by Prairie Theatre
Exchange, Popular Theatre Alliance, and Theatre Projects. Flux
is a
musical comedy written in Border Scots, with composer Glenn Buhr.
- is a lyricist, and performs with the new music ensemble Broken
Songs. She has also performed with the
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
KOOZMA TARASOFF
2000 Festival
- Born in Saskatchewan to Doukhobor parents
- Author, ethnographer and photographer with special expertise in
Doukhobor
affairs
- Helped prepare the Spirit Wrestlers Exhibit at the Canadian Museum
of Civilization in Ottawa
- In Search of Utopia: The Doukhobors co-authored with Larry
A. Ewashen
CARRIE-JO TAYLOR 2001 Festival
- has
written a series of books containing single native legends, plus three
collections of stories linked thematically
- Among her books are The
Monster from the Swamp, The Messenger of Spring, and
Bones in the Basket: Native Stories of the Origin of
People
DREW HAYDEN TAYLOR 2005 Festival
WAYNE TEFS 2002
Festival
- born in Winnipeg and grew up in Northwestern
Ontario.
- He has taught at a number
of Canadian
universities and colleges.
- the short story "Red Rock and After"
won the Canadian Magazine Fiction Prize
- has published seven novels: Figures on a Wharf was a
finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Prize and the Seal Book
Award
(1983); The Canasta Players and Moon Lake were
finalists for the
Manitoba Book of the Year; Red Rock was broadcast on the CBC's
Booktime; Moon
Lake received the Margaret Laurence Prize for Fiction.
LEONA THEIS 2001 Festival
- her first book, Sightlines, a
collection of interlocking short stories, won the Saskatchewan Award
for Fiction
and the Saskatoon Book Award in 2000
- her short fiction has appeared in literary magazines across Canada
and has been
broadcast on CBC's "Between the Covers"
MADELIENE THIEN 2007 Festival
AUDREY THOMAS 2007 Festival
IAN THOMAS 2007 Festival
DUNCAN THORNTON 2004
Festival
- the founding editor of the electronic version of Canadian Review
of Materials
- works as a freelance writer and teaches communications at Red River
College in Winnipeg.
- Kalifax, his first book, was on the short-list of almost every
award, including the 2000 Governor General’s, Mr. Christie’s Awards,
the Manitoba Best first Novel, Best Children’s Book Awards, and the
Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award. - Captain Jenny was
his second book, with The Star Glass (2003) his third novel
MORLEY THORPE 2005 Festival
RHEA TREGEBOV 2000 Festival
- Born in Saskatoon, raised in Winnipeg, writes poetry and children's
books
- Her books for children include What-if Sara, Sasha and
the Wind, Sasha and the Wiggly Tooth
- Awards include the Malahat Review Long Poem Competition and the Pat
Lowther Award from the League of Canadian Poets
CHRIS TRIFFO*
(SK) 1999 and 2001 Festival
- An independent filmmaker.
- His documentary film Dad
won two Gemini Awards and numerous other awards from national film
festivals.
MICHAEL TRUSSLER 2007 Festival
DANIEL SCOTT TYSDAL 2005 & 2006 Festivals
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Last updated: April 17, 2008