2025 Spring Reading & Open Mic

Join us for our Spring Reading Event!

Presented in partnership with the Saskatchewan Book Awards and the Humboldt & District Museum and Art Gallery.

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Saturday, May 24th, 2025
2:00 pm CST
Free Admission

In-Person & Virtual attendance options:

In-person 
Humboldt and District Museum and Gallery
601 Main Street, Humboldt, SK

Online via Zoom
Register to attend at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/70qO-U9NRDe8vWqwx1gkOA
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to join the reading.
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Featuring readings by:

Sage Hill Spring Poetry Colloquium Instructor 
Marilyn Dumont
&
Saskatchewan Book Awards Finalist and Sage Hill Alum
Courtney Bates-Hardy


Feature readings will be followed by a Q&A and a Community Open Mic.

Both virtual and in-person audience members may read at the open mic.  Open mic readings should be a maximum of 5 minutes in length.  If you wish to read, you may sign up to do so at the event.  The open mic portion of the event will last about 40 minutes maximum (apologies if we do not have time for everyone).

About Our Featured Readers

 Marilyn Dumont

Metis poet, writer, and Professor Marilyn Dumont teaches for the faculties of Arts and Native Studies at the University of Alberta and is proud of Metis family lines from her Mother’s – Vaness / Dufresne families and her father’s – Boudreau/Dumont families. 

She was awarded the 2018 Lifetime Membership from the League of Canadian Poets for her contributions to poetry in Canada. In 2019, she received the University of Alberta Distinguished Alumni Award and the Alberta Lieutenant Governor’s Distinguished Artist Award, and in 2022 was Awarded the Alberta Queen’s Platinum Jubilee medal for public service. 

Her four collections of poetry have won provincial or national awards:  A Really Good Brown Girl (1996); green girl dreams Mountains (2001); that tongued belonging (2007); The Pemmican Eaters (2015). Her newest collection is South Side of a Kinless River published by Brick Books 2024.

 

Courtney Bates-Hardy
Photo Credit Ali Lauren Creative Services

Courtney Bates-Hardy is the author of Anatomical Venus (Radiant Press, 2024), House of Mystery (2016), and a chapbook, Sea Foam (JackPine Press, 2013). Her poems have appeared in Event, Vallum, Grain, and PRISM, among others. Anatomical Venus was shortlisted for two Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her poems have been featured in The Best Canadian Poetry and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is queer and disabled, and one-quarter of a writing group called The Pain Poets.

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Many thanks to our partners, funders, and sponsors for the Spring Reading: the Saskatchewan Book Awards, the Humboldt & District Museum and Art Gallery, Sask Arts, SaskCulture, Saskatchewan Lotteries, Canada Council for the Arts, and the League of Canadian Poets.

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Announcing Sage Hill’s 2025 Summer Courses

Sage Hill Summer Courses

Location:
ONLINE programs are held via Zoom
IN PERSON programs are held at St. Peter’s College, Muenster, SK

Application Deadline:
The April 22, 2025 application deadline has passed. If the course you are interested in remains available on the application form, you may submit a late application.
Otherwise, you may request to be added to the waiting list by emailing sage.hill@sasktel.net.

ONLINE COURSES:
Creative Nonfiction with Jenna Butler
Poetry with Michael Trussler
Emerging Prose with Joshua Whitehead
Emerging Poetry with Neil Aitken
Playwriting with Vern Thiessen **

**Note that playwriting will be held online, rather than in-person as originally announced.

IN-PERSON COURSE:
Fiction with Madeline Thien

For detailed information on the summer course offerings, visit https://sagehillwriting.ca/writing-retreats/.

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