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Saskatchewan Book Awards - Shortlisted Authors Reading

Enjoy readings by three shortlisted authors of the 2023 Saskatchewan Book Awards. Offered in partnership with Saskatchewan Writers Guild.

Part of RPL's Writes of Spring programming series.

Enjoy readings from the following writers who have been shortlisted:

·         Anthony Bidulka, shortlisted for the Fiction Award for Going to Beautiful (Stonehouse Publishing)

·         Melanie McFarlane, shortlisted for the Young Adult Literature Award for Finders Keepers (Orca Book Publishers)

·         Joanne Leow, shortlisted for the First Book Award for Seas Move Away (Turnstone Press)

See all of the shortlisted authors on the Saskatchewan Book Awards website and celebrate in their success: https://www.bookawards.sk.ca/ 

This program is conducted through Zoom. Register to receive a reminder, the evaluation and any other resources.

Click the link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85179945478 

This program is offered in partnership with the Saskatchewan Writers Guild. 

Author Information: 

Anthony Bidulka’s books have been nominated for Crime Writers of Canada Awards, Saskatchewan Book Awards and he was the first Canadian to win the Lambda Literary Award for Best Men’s Mystery. He was inducted to the University of Saskatchewan College of Education Wall of Honour, received the College of Arts and Science Alumni of Influence Award and named Saskatoon Citizen of the Year. Bidulka loves to travel the world, collect art, walk his dogs, obsess over decorating Christmas trees (it’s a thing) and throw a good party. His debut novel in a new mystery series, Livingsky, will be released June 2023.

Melanie McFarlane is an author~potter~poet from southern Saskatchewan. She has volunteered on the boards for the Saskatchewan Festival of Words, the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild and CANSCAIP Sask. Melanie believes that an artist's strength comes from giving back to their community.

Joanne Leow grew up in Singapore and lives as an uninvited guest on Treaty Six Territory and the homeland of the Métis. She is Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University. Her creative work and research lie at the intersections of the environmental humanities, transnational and diasporic cultural production, intimacies, autotheory, and decoloniality. Her writing has been published in Brick, Catapult, Evergreen Review, The Goose, Isle, The Kindling, The Town Crier, and Ricepaper Magazine. Seas Move Away  (Turnstone Press, 2022) is her debut collection of poetry.

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