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Shortlist Events

Each year, the Saskatchewan Book Awards presents a series of shortlist events in the weeks leading up to the Gala on the last Saturday of November. Events are held in Regina & Saskatoon plus a Reading Tour that moves from city to city each year thanks to the generous support of our sponsors. Please keep watching this page to see more details as they're announced. For tickets, please e-mail: tickets@bookawards.sk.ca. For more details, you can also call 306-569-1585 or e-mail: director@bookawards.sk.ca

An Afternoon of Readings by the 2008 Saskatchewan Book Award Winners

Date: Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 — 3:00 to 5:00 pm

Tickets: Free Admission

Location: Legislative Library room 234.
Information on where to park and what door to enter

Readers:
Poet Laureate Robert Currie reading Love of Mirrors by Gary Hyland,
Pam Bustin - Mostly Happy,
Alison Lohans - This Land We Call Home,
Donna Caruso - Journey Without a Map: Growing up Italian - a Memoir.

Sponsors: The Saskatchewan Book Awards gratefully acknowledges the support of: Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, Greystone Managed Investments, the Royal Saskatchewan Museum Associates, and the Saskatchewan Legislative Library.

Note: Book sales and signings with reception to follow

17th Annual Saskatchewan Book Awards Gala

Date: Saturday, November 28th, 2009 — 5:00 pm

Tickets: $ 70 contact tickets@bookawards.sk.ca or call 569-1585

Location: Conexus Arts Centre

Guest Speaker: Rudy Wiebe Please click for further information about Wiebe

Reading Events

Saskatoon Shortlist Reading and Brunch

Date: Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 — 11:30 am

Tickets: $ 25 contact 652-2331

Location: Delta Bessborough Hotel

Readers:
David Carpenter (Niceman Cometh),
Mary Harelkin Bishop (Seeds of Hope: A Prairie Story),
Howard Woodhouse (Selling Out: Academic Freedom and the Corporate Market) and
Terry Fenton (About Pictures)

Note: City of Saskatoon, McNally Robinson Booksellers, Wayne & Arline Sanderson

Swift Current Shortlist Reading

Date: Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 — 12:30 pm

Tickets: $ 15 contact 773-6269 or at the Pharmasave

Location: Living Sky Casino (1401 North Service Rd. E. )

Readers:
George Epp (Off Road),
Trevor Herriot (Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds),
Gerry Hill (14 Tractors), and
Lori Saigeon (Fight for Justice)

Sponsors: Canada Council and SaskPower

Regina Shortlist Reading "Books in the Brig"

Date: Friday, November 6th, 2009 — 7:30 pm

Tickets: $ 10 contact tickets@bookawards.sk.ca or call 569-1585

Location: West Harvest Inn in the "Emerald A" room (4025 Albert St.)

Format: Pirate attire

Readers:
Wilfred Burton (Dancing in My Bones),
Connie Gault (Euphoria: a novel),
Jean Freeman (Where Does Your Dog Sleep),
Trevor Herriot (Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds),
Andrew Stubbs (White Light Primitive)

Sponsors: City of Regina Arts Commission

Meadow Lake Reading

Date: Saturday, October 24th, 2009 — 7:00 pm

Tickets: $ 5 contact meadowlake.lib@lakeland.lib.sk.ca or 236-5396

Location: Senior Citizen's Activity Center in Meadow Lake (406 5th Ave West)

Readers:
Margaret Hryniuk, Larry Easton (Legacy of Stone: Saskatchewan's Stone Buildings),
Nora Stewart (Cultivating Our Roots),
Marlene Millar (Dene Honu: Stories From the People)

Sponsors: Canada Council and SaskPower

Note: (doors open at 6:30pm)

Saskatchewan Book Day

The Saskatchewan Book Awards is pleased to present the first annual Saskatchewan Book Day on June 6, 2009 from 1-5 p.m. on the grounds in front of the Legislative Building. Admission is free and all are welcome. The event will feature readings by Saskatchewan authors, book sales and signings. Children’s activities will also take place and readings in the SaskTel tent.

The author and book lineup is as follows: Poet Laureate Robert Currie (Witness), David McLennan (Our Towns), Yann Martel (What is Stephen Harper Reading?), Bonnie Dunlop (Carnival of Glass), Harold LeRat (Treaty Promises, Indian Reality: Life on a Reserve), Margaret Hryniuk (Legacy of Stone), Joanne Weber (Pear Orchard), Martine Noél-Maw(Dans le pli des collines). In the children’s tent: Carrie Saganace (Stories of our People), Judith Silverthorne (Dinosaur Blackout), Neil Sawatzky (The Lake in the Middle of Town) and Lori Punshon (He who Flies by Night, the Story of Grey Owl).

The SBA wishes to thank the supporting funders: Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport, SaskTel, Canada Council for the Arts, Department of Canadian Heritage, Saskatchewan Publishers Group, Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Saskatchewan Arts Board.

Saskatchewan Book Awards Literary Salons Grand Finale
at the Shurniak Gallery

It’s once again time for the Saskatchewan Book Awards Literary Salons’ Grand Finale at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 21, 2009 at the Shurniak Gallery (122 3rd Ave West) located in Assiniboia, hosted by Moose Jaw poet, Jim MacLean. Six Saskatchewan Authors readings will take place with book sales and signings by the authors.

The author and book line up is as follows:
Special guest Poet Laureate, Robert Currie, (reading Love of Mirrors for Gary Hyland who won the Award for Poetry and the Book of the Year Award), Donna Caruso (Journey Without A Map, which won the Non-fiction Award), Dan MacDonald (McGregor’s Hard Ice Cream and Gas, which was short-listed for the Book of the Year and the Regina Book Award), Pam Bustin (Mostly Happy, which won the Fiction Award and First Book Award), Alison Lohans (This Land We Call Home, winner of the Children’s Book Award), David McLennan (Our Towns, which won the Regina Book Award and the Publishing in Education Award), Sharon Butala (The Girl From Saskatoon, which was nominated for the Book of the Year and the Non-fiction Award).

The SBA wishes to thank the supporting funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board.

Saskatchewan Book Awards Literary Salons Wind-up At CBC Galleria

The Saskatchewan Book Awards is pleased to present the CBC Literary Salon Wind-up on Friday, June 26 2009 doors open at 7 p.m. (seating is limited) and the reading starts at 8 p.m. in the CBC Galleria at 2440 Broad St.. Admission is free and all are welcome. Hosted by Kelly Jo Burke the event will feature book readings by Saskatchewan Book Award winners and short-listed nominees.

The author and book lineup is as follows:
Dan MacDonald (McGregor’s Hard Ice Cream and Gas, which was short-listed for the Book of the Year and the Regina Book award), Louise Halfe (The Crooked Good which won the Saskatoon Book Award and the First People’s Publishing Award), Sharon Butala (The Girl From Saskatoon, which was nominated for the Book of the Year and the Non-fiction Award), Pam Bustin (Mostly Happy, which won the Fiction Award and First Book Award), Donna Caruso (Journey Without A Map, which won the Non-fiction Award), and special guest Poet Laureate, Robert Currie, (reading Love of Mirrors for Gary Hyland who won the Award for Poetry and the Book of the Year Award).

Books will be available for sale and authors will be available for book signings.