Creative Works readings

Tuesday, November 6, 3:30 pm, HC 4-29

Creative Works Reading by Gary Geddes

Gary Geddes has written and edited more than thirty-five books of poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, criticism, translation and anthologies. Sailing Home: A Journey Through Time, Place and Memory became a national bestseller in Canada.  Other recent works are
Skaldance and a best selling nonfiction work about an ancient Asian voyage to the Americas, The Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas.   His national and international awards include the E.J. Pratt Medal, the National Poetry Prize, the Americas Best Book Award, the Writers' Choice Award, National Magazine Gold Award, Poetry Book Society Recommendation (U.K.), the Archibald Lampman Prize (twice), and the Gabriela Mistral Prize.  Gary has been very active in promoting other writers. He was founding editor of a series of critical monographs called Studies in Canadian Literature, he has reviewed poetry regularly for the Globe & Mail, and started several publishing companies, including Quadrant Editions and Cormorant Books.  He has had numerous appointments as writer in residence, including University of Alberta, Malaspina University College, University of Ottawa, and Green College, UBC.  His best known anthologies, 20th Century Poetry & Poetics and 15 Canadian Poets (both from Oxford), have gone into numerous editions and have had an enormous impact on the teaching and writing of poetry in Canada. 

Wednesday, November 14, 3:30 pm, HC 4-29

Creative Works Reading by Michael Trussler

Michael Trussler's collection of stories,
Encounters (NeWest Press), won the City of Regina and Book of the Year awards at the Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2006. 
Encounters
is made up of stories that centre on characters who encounter something larger than themselves — a situation or another character — around which they must navigate. 
His second book, a poetry collection, entitled
Accidental Animals
has just appeared.  He has also published book reviews, literary criticism, poetry, and short fiction, and is the Chief Editor of Wascana Review. Trussler received a PhD from the University of Toronto and has taught courses on American literature, literary theory, and the short story at the University of Regina. He has travelled widely in the United States and Europe, is an amateur photographer, and has a fascination with visual art. 

Tuesday, November 20, 3:30 pm, HC 4-29

Creative Works Reading by Candace Savage

Candace Savage is the author of more than two dozen books, including thirteen on natural history and natural science, and an equal number of magazine features.  She is currently the wildlife columnist for
Canadian Geographic. 
Her work ranges through the sciences and humanities, with books on the aurora borealis, grassland ecology, European witchcraft, and cowgirl mythology, among other subjects. She has been honored by the American and Canadian Library Associations and the Canadian Science Writers' Association, among others. In 1994 she was inducted to the Honor Roll of the Rachel Carson Institute. As a resident of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she has lived on the prairies for most of her life.   Her latest book,
Crows: Conversations with the Wise Guys (Greystone, 2005), has been described as part science, part poetry, and a celebration of crow consciousness.  This reading is funded by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.