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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Festival 2004    July 22 - 25

Mansel Robinson

Mansel Robinson comes to the Festival of Words after nine months as Writer In Residence at the University of Windsor. 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. His new play, Picking up Chekhov, was recently presented as a staged reading at the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre’s Spring Festival of New Plays in Regina. 

A CD of Ghost Trains: All of the Songs and Some of the Story has just been released. Slag, a book of short fiction and poetry and Street Wheat, were both short-listed for Book Of The Year at the Saskatchewan Book Awards. Mansel has been writer in residence at the Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon, is a two time winner of Saskatchewan’s John V. Hicks Award as well as The City of Regina Award and Geist Magazine’s Award for Distance Writing. 

He is the Saskatchewan Representative for the Playwrights Guild of Canada, a board member for Playwrights Canada Press and is an active past president of the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre.  Mansel was born in the railroad and lumbering town of Chapleau in Northern Ontario.