Saskatchewan Authors & Awards

"A groundbreaking anthology from territory that is now known as Saskatchewan, kisiskâciwan contains rich, oral narratives from Cree, Saulteaux, Nakoda, Dakota, Dene, Gros Ventres, and Métis cultures; speeches and lette...

"In the wake of colonization, in a landscape of loss and dispossession, can we rediscover ways to share the land with other creatures and one another? Towards a Prairie Atonement addresses this question by enlisting the ...

"A collection of poetry about aging, grief, and the eccentricities of the natural world -- a cockroach, an eggplant."--Provided by publisher.

With his conniving and all too earthy sidekick, Sandra Dollar, Donny makes a riotous, comic journey through Saskatchewan, across Montana and Utah to the epicentre of vanity and vice, Las Vegas.

"Molly has been fighting to free the spirits, but she fears her rebellion is only putting people and spirits in danger in this novel for middle readers."-- Provided by publisher.

In 2015, writer and journalist Paul Seesequasis found himself grappling with the devastating findings of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission report on the residential school system. He sought understanding and i...

437 species of birds are documented in this 800 page compendium a result of over ten years of work and several timetimes of observation, research, and writing. Editors: Alan R. Smith, C. Stuart Houston and J. Frank Roy.

"Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and...

Napoléon Sureau dit Blondin built a house in Saskatoon in the 1920s, an era when French-speakers like him were deemed "undesirable" by the political and social elite, who sought to populate the Canadian prairies with WA...

"In early 2018, the failures of Canada's justice system were sharply and painfully revealed in the verdicts issued in the deaths of Colten Boushie and Tina Fontaine. The outrage and confusion that followed those verdicts...

"There are too many stories about Indigenous women who go missing or are murdered, and it doesn't seem as though official sources such as government, police or the courts respond in a way that works toward finding justic...

Takes readers young and old on a journey into the past when dog teams were part of the traditional way of life in Northern Saskatchewan. Inspired by Elder Ida Tremblay's childhood memories, and told in English with Woodl...

"Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural misunderstandings ...

"Adam's Tree is a fictional account of life on the Cowesses First Nation in Saskatchewan during the 1940's and 50's.This period in history finds forces like regulatory policy, World War II, systemic racism, and the long ...

"This is a memoir of the ceramic artist Vic Cicansky. Detailing his childhood, and the influences of growing up in a multicultural neighbourhood in Regina, and the impact it had on his art and personality."-- Provided by...

A Walk in Wascana takes young readers on a walking tour around Regina's Wascana Lake, stopping at local landmarks like the Legislative Building, the Kwakiutl Nation Totem Pole, and more, all while greeting and observing ...

"Writing from a homeless shelter in downtown Toronto, Mohamed "Mo" Ali chronicles how he ended up there in this powerful and often irreverent memoir of exile, addiction, and racism. Kidnapped by his father on the eve of ...

It's hard to make friends when you're a monster! A group of young monsters must learn cooperation and tolerance to overcome their differences in order to survive a hostile world without adult guidance. Having escaped fro...

In Jason Heit's gritty new novel-in-stories, Prairie settlers discover that their greatest challenge in a new land is each other.

If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. But Life and Fate wa...

"Drawing on the expertise of Indigenous scholars and researchers, including voices from the front lines in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, this book examines child welfare practices in kinship care, FASD, homelessne...

A first-hand account of a woman's struggle with sexual assault and abuse. Alternating between the past and present, the reader is taken into the author's past: her relationship with her fundamentalist Christian parents a...

"A poetic exploration of depression and winter."--Provided by publisher.

"Allan Blakeney believed in government as a force for good. As premier of Saskatchewan, he promoted social justice through government intervention in the economy and the welfare state. He created legal and constitutional...

Eleven-year-old bird watcher Ben must defy his brother to save their father after the glass plague sweeps through their town and a voice on the radio demands the simultaneous shattering of all plague victims.

"Lac Pelletier: My Métis Home is an autobiography by Cecile Blanke. A prominent Métis Elder living in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but with deep roots in nearby Lac Pelletier, Cecile has been a tireless presence on the...

"In Voice, Adam Pottle explores the crucial role deafness has played in the growth of his imagination, and in doing so presents a unique perspective on a writer's development. Born deaf in both ears, Pottle recounts what...

"Phases is a collection of poems about gender, coming-of-age, and sexuality. Part 1 is spoken from the point of view of a girl who is coming to terms with the end of childhood and the development of her own gender identi...

"The Dry Valley encapsulates one woman's relationship with herself, her alcoholic spouse, and the world, in three different Saskatchewan landscapes. The poems offer a fascinating interplay between mindful explorations of...

"Celebration poems about the prairie experience through the eyes of a young woman."--Provided by publisher.

"An anthology of African-Canadian writing, Black Writing Matters offers a cross-section of established writers and newcomers to the literary world who tackle contemporary and pressing issues with beautiful, sometimes raw...

"Comprised of multidisciplinary and diverse perspectives, Performing Turtle Island considers theatre as a tool for community engagement, education, and resistance, and examines how communities in turn influence the const...

When Quinn's mom gets sick and Quinn has to go live with his grandfather in the big city, a nearby pond becomes a place of comfort and peace for him. But when Quinn spots a duckling all on its own, his own feeling of not...

"The Voyageurs: Forefathers of the Métis Nation tells an old story-integral to both the birth of the Métis Nation and to the development of Canada-in a new and engaging format. Zoey Roy has eloquently transformed the h...