Governor General’s Literary Award Winner Leads off 2022/23 Write Out Loud
The Write Out Loud Committee is excited to extend an invitation to the upcoming season of author readings at the Lyric Theatre, several aimed at education and reconciliation with Saskatchewan’s Indigenous peoples. We look forward to welcoming our audiences in person!
The line-up for 2022 -2023 includes:
September 14 – Michelle Good – author/lawyer/member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation and winner of numerous awards including the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction for her debut novel, Five Little Indians (Harper Collins). This WOL is a must!
October 19 – Lisa Bird-Wilson – Probably Ruby (Penguin Random House) is a treatise on the foster care system through the fictional story of a Cree/Metis baby placed in care and her lifelong pursuit of cultural reconnection.
November 16 – Bevann Fox – TV Host/Producer and award-winning author of Genocidal Love – A Life After Residential School (University of Regina Press), a powerful confirmation of the long-lasting consequences of residential school violence and finding a path toward healing.
February 15 – Local Writers’ Night
March 8 – John Langan – Saskatoon City Constable – author and self-publisher of A Spark in the Dark, his autobiography intended as inspiration for young Indigenous youth seeking positive life outcomes.
April 19 – Kelly Jo Burke – playwright/creative-nonfiction writer/CBC broadcaster and performer – Wreck, a very anxious memoir (Radiant Press) is described as “scattershot, dizzyingly creative, perhaps cathartic, and downright funny”.
May 17 – Leona Theis – award-winning author of short stories and novels. If Sylvie Had Nine Lives (Freehand Books) delves deeply into the layers that make up a life; tales of rash decisions, romance, mishaps, and missteps.
Admission is $8.00, and doors open at the Lyric Theatre at 6:30. Musical entertainment begins at 7:00 with the featured author to follow.