Saturday, August 4, 2012

Sage Hill: Inspiring Writers and Readers

In late July, the Sage Hill Writing Experience in Lumsden, Saskatchewan, hosted two evenings of readings by talented Canadian writers: John Gould, Helen Humphreys, Ken Babstock, Kimmy Beach, Spider Robinson, John Valliant and Lawrence Hill.

I was fortunate to be able to attend the first night of Sage Hill faculty readings — Gould, with several of his highly entertaining and very short stories; Humphreys, three vivid scenes from a novel in progress; and Babstock, amazing poetry. (Babstock is the recently announced winner of the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize).

Unfortunately, I couldn't make the following session with Beach, Robinson, Valliant and Hill. (insert very sad sigh...) 

However, I have pictures from the reception that followed the first readings — and many new additions to my must-read list. (Looking for great Canadian poetry, fiction, non-fiction, science fiction? See below, for some of these authors' works.)

John Valliant, Lawrence Hill - photo by Shelley Banks
John Valliant and Lawrence Hill

Helen Humphreys, Philip Adams - photo by Shelley Banks
Helen Humphreys, with Sage Hill
Executive Director, playwright Philip Adams

John Gould - photo by Shelley Banks
John Gould

Ken Babstock - photo by Shelley Banks
Ken Babstock 


Caitlin Ward, Fionncara MacEoin - photo by Shelley Banks
Sage Hill writers: Participant Caitlin Ward,
with Program Assistant Fionncara MacEoin 

Kimmy Beach, Tracy Hamon - photo by Shelley Banks
Kimmy Beach and Sage Hill
Board President, poet Tracy Hamon

Judith Silverthorne - photo by Shelley Banks
Sage Hill participant, novelist 
Judith Silverthorne, Executive Director 
of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild

Caitlin Ward, Anne McDonald, Reg Sylvester, B.D. Miller - photo by Shelley Banks
Other writers at the Sage Hill readings: Caitlin Ward,
Anne McDonald, Reg Sylvester and B.D. Miller

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2 comments:

  1. The readings were great! Thanks for the photos! And if you have that other one, I'd love to see it...

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  2. Hi Bernadette - Thanks! Sadly, I don't have many more than this from that night, as my camera (or me, perhaps? could it be???) was having trouble with the lovely sunset light.

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