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Fri. July 5th, 2024 Faculty Reading 
featuring:
Michelle Good
D.A. Lockhart
Michael Trussler

Recording Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/W0wtHb7v2EXZNkWO2qfY_xC0PVPf8yEyNfOk419y1C_xL3eGx5lobhyurgr6mCoV.4jJJ9BmjsFM4UxUG
Passcode: #sagehill2024

Recording available until Aug. 7, 2024
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Sun. July 7th, 2024 Kroetsch Keynote & Faculty Reading
featuring:
Guillermo Verdeccia – Keynote Speaker
Lisa Richter
Madeleine Thien

Recording Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/UuU0eOdR8n1IrZPsKOQik31fSdlk0h2fQY_EAQsq75Y60ZC2kPllpqTgUDE0YZz9.tnH4DmMrK-bzJBKt
Passcode: #sagehill2024

Recording available until Aug. 7, 2024

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Many thanks to our funders and sponsors for this event: Sask Arts, SaskCulture, Saskatchewan Lotteries, Canada Council for the Arts, The Writers Union of Canada, and FriesenPress.

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35th Anniversary Spring Reading!

A Spring Reading to celebrate Sage Hill’s 35th Anniversary!

Presented in partnership with Sask Book Awards.

Featuring readings by:
Fiction Colloquium Instructor 
Jessica Westhead
&
Sask Book Awards Finalist 
Rita Bouvier
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Many thanks to special sponsors for this event:
Sask Book Awards & FriesenPress

Reader Bios

Rita Bouvier

Rita Bouvier is a Métis writer, editor and ‘retired’ educator. a beautiful rebellion, released April 2023 by Thistledown Press, was inspired by the Idle No More movement. It honours an ongoing resistance… and an unconquerable love for family, community, land and life itself. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Treaty 6), but home is sakitawak—Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan, Canada situated on the historic trading and meeting grounds of Cree and Dene people (Treaty 10). She currently serves as a volunteer with the Saskatchewan Ânskohk Writers Circle Inc. and the Indigenous Editors Association.

Jessica Westhead

Jessica Westhead is an author, editor, and creative writing teacher who has been working with aspiring writers since 2005, including teaching creative writing at The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Toronto Metropolitan University, and the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto. She has also worked as a literary prize juror, most notably for the Toronto Star Short Story Contest, and for the Fiction category of the 2023 Governor General’s Literary Awards. Jessica’s fiction has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards, selected for the Journey Prize anthology, and nominated for a National Magazine Award, and has been published in major literary journals in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is the author of the novels Pulpy & Midge (Coach House Books) and Worry (HarperCollins Canada) and the critically acclaimed short-story collections And Also Sharks and Things Not to Do (Cormorant Books) and Avalanche (Invisible Publishing). And Also Sharks was a Globe & Mail Top 100 Book, one of Kobo’s Best Ebooks of 2011, and a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Worry was included on CBC Books’ Best Canadian Fiction of 2019 and the CBC Canada Reads Longlist. Jessica lives in Toronto with her family.

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2024 Sage Hill Writing Courses

In 2024, Sage Hill will be offering a variety of in person and virtual courses. The aim is to continue to accommodate folks who prefer the accessibility of online courses while offering a few more courses in person within a safe context.

Each class unit will be completely online or entirely in person so participants can focus on their writing in a unified context.

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2024 Course Information:

SPRING FICTION

Facilitated by Jessica Westhead

Dates:
May 15 – 24, 2024

Location:
In Person at St. Peter’s College, Muenster, SK

Application Deadline:
Applications for the Spring Program are now closed.

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SUMMER COURSES

Dates:
Online: July 3 – 12, 2024
In Person: 4 – 13, 2024

Location:
ONLINE via Zoom
and
In Person at St. Peter’s College, Muenster, SK

Application Deadline:
Applications for the Summer Courses are now closed.

ONLINE
Emerging A: Prose with D.A. Lockhart
Emerging B: Poetry with Lisa Richter
Summer Nonfiction with Michelle Good
Summer Poetry with Michael Trussler

IN PERSON
Summer Playwriting with Guillermo Verdecchia
Summer Fiction with Madeleine Thien 

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