Instructors & Presenters
Andreas Schroeder emigrated to British Columbia from Germany in l951. He has made his living as a freelance writer for the past 43 years - writing books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and radio drama, as well as translations, journalism and literary criticism. During bouts of certifiable dementia he has also committed brazen acts of cultural politics, serving as chairman of the Writers' Union of Canada (l976-77), and founding chairman the Public Lending Right Commission (l985-88), on whose... |
Aritha van Herk is the author of five novels, Judith, The Tent Peg, No Fixed Address (nominated for the Governor General’s Award for fiction), Places Far From Ellesmere (a geografictione) and Restlessness. Her wide-ranging critical work is collected in A Frozen Tongue and In Visible Ink. |
Marina Endicott’s novel Good to a Fault was a finalist for the 2008 Giller Prize, won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, Canada/Caribbean, and was a Canada Reads book in 2010. Her new novel about polite vaudeville, The Little Shadows, comes out this September from Doubleday. |
Juno Award winning singer-songwriter James Keelaghan is one of Canada's most successful and respected musicians, and one of the brightest stars on the world folk scene today. James spent 300 days on the road last year. His touring seldom stops, taking him across North America, Europe, the UK and Australia on a regular basis. James Keelaghan has an uncanny knack for finding incredible stories and turning them into finely crafted songs. A commanding performer, he develops an intimate... |
Myrna Kostash is an acclaimed writer of literary and creative nonfiction who makes her home in Edmonton when she is not travelling in pursuit of her varied literary interests and passions. These have taken her from school halls in Vancouver, BC, to Ukrainian weddings in Two Hills, Alberta; from the site of the mass grave of Cree warriors in Battleford, Saskatchewan, to a fishers’ meeting in Digby, Nova Scotia; from the British Library in London, UK, to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. |
Alison Calder’s poetry collection, Wolf Tree (Coteau 2007), won two Manitoba Book Awards and was a finalist for both the Gerald Lampert Award and the Pat Lowther Award. Her creative and scholarly writing has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, most recently Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry. Her collaboration with Jeanette Lynes led to the chapbook Ghost Works: Improvisations in Letters and Poems (Jackpine Press 2007). She’s taught creative writing in Germany and... |
Betty Jane Hegerat is the author of two novels (Running Toward Home and Delivery), a collection of short stories (A Crack in the Wall), and a work of creative non-fiction (The Boy). Previously a social worker, she crafts fiction around domesticity, the messy dynamics of family, and the secrets and lies in ordinary lives. Delivery was shortlisted for the George Bugnet Prize for fiction in the 2010 Alberta Book Awards. |
Dave Margoshes is a Saskatoon-area writer whose work has appeared widely in Canadian literary magazines and anthologies, including six times in the Best Canadian Stories volumes. He was a finalist for the Journey Prize, Canada’s premier short story award, in 2009. He’s published over a dozen books, including Dimensions of an Orchard, which won the Anne Szumigalski Poetry Prize at the 2010 Saskatchewan Book Awards, and The Horse Knows the Way, nominated for that award the previous year. He... |
Robyn Read is the Acquiring Editor of Freehand Books, the literary imprint of Broadview Press located in Calgary, Alberta. Read has taught Introductory Creative Writing at the University of Calgary, where she completed her PhD in Canadian Literature in 2010. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs (CCWWP). |
Canadian Sid Marty writes mainly on natural history and western life and culture. He has published five books of non-fiction and three of poetry, some of which are based on his formative experiences as a park warden in the Rocky Mountain national parks. His book Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook was a finalist for the l996 Governor General’s Award for Literature and won the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the l996 Banff Mountain Book Festival. |
