Caitlin McCullam-Arnal
August 2022
Caitlin McCullam-Arnal is a writer who grew up in Loree, Ontario. She draws inspiration from things that piss her off and make her smile. She lives in Treaty 4, Southwest Saskatchewan with her husband and eight rescue animals. She is published in the anthology, apart: a year of pandemic poetry and prose, Transition, and Spring magazines. She co-facilitated The Writing for Mental Health Workshops 2019-2020 at Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge, Treaty 4, SK. Currently, she is working on a novel-in-progress, Dame.
Lois A Unger
August 2022
Lois A Unger grew up in rural Saskatchewan and learned about the value and joy of spending tme outside with my camera, and how photography is a means of communication. Lois has presented her work in solo and group art shows locally and beyond. A huge honour was when Tourism Saskatchewan chose her genre.
I love the sky and the many cloud formations. I feel there are hidden messages from the universe. My project would be titled THE SKY WITH NO LIMITS.
Allan Toews
I began as a practising artist in Winnipeg, MB, where I graduated from the University of Manitoba, School of Art in 1972 and continued my practice in Winnipeg until 2004 when I moved to Victoria, BC, where I maintain a studio at Rock Bay Square, a old building catering to artist and artisans. Winnipeg, Toronto and Victoria are places where my art has been exhibited.
Stuart Ian McKay
January 2022
Stuart Ian McKay is a member of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta and the League of Canadian Poets. He is a two time winner of CBC's Alberta Anthology. McKay lives in Calgary.
Ashlyn George
February 2022
Ashlyn George, an award-winning travel writer based in Saskatoon, SK. As one of the go-to travel experts in Saskatchewan, Ashlyn is writing her first book that chronicles her outdoor adventures in the province, including a “how-to” guide so others can be inspired to explore further in a province that often gets overlooked for epic adventures.
Kate Finegan
March 2022
Kate Finegan is a fiction writer whose work is supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council. She is novel/novella editor for Split/Lip Press. She was winner of PRISM International's 2020 Jacob Zilber Prize for short fiction and was awarded The Fiddlehead’s 2017 fiction prize for a story. She grew up mostly in Tennessee and recently moved from Toronto to Saskatchewan with her spouse and two cats. While at the Wallace Stegner House, Kate will be working on fiction that explores the permeability of the body within its environments. Inspired by place and the complexities of home, she is looking forward to experiencing Eastend in the winter.
Edward Peck
April 2022
Edward Peck studied photography, fine arts, conceptual art, historical technics, film, and literature at the University of British Columbia. Peck works collaboratively with other visual artists, exhibiting locally and internationally. Peck also edited and produced anthologies of Canadian Literature as well as assisted in the editing of a Canadian literary journal. This has led to his editing and production of artist books and exhibition catalogues.
Phyllis Schwartz
April 2022
Phyllis Schwartz, a multi-disciplinary artist and curator, is an Emily Carr University of Art + Design graduate. Phyllis is the recipient of the Canon Photography Award. Her photography has been installed, exhibited and published locally, across Canada and internationally; her works are in corporate, public and private collections. We plan to use photography and writing to respond to the landscape, environment and community to produce a body of visual work and an artist book, while exploring elements of Stegner’s works, specifically Wolf Willow. See also Edward Peck.
Shirley Mackenzie
May 2022
Shirley Mackenzie has a Bachelor’s degree in art and design, with a postgraduate degree in ceramics. She has enjoyed a career in teaching and is now retired. Mackenzie’s art work is intimate and tactile – not large scale. Her sketchpads are full of drawings capturing fleeting expression in portraiture and the ethereal and spiritual aspects in landscape. She is equally absorbed in the intricacies and repetitions of patterns which seem to her an aesthetic management of chaos. Mackenzie likes to capture transition, the in-between. Often she translates these drawings into clay, incorporating fabrics and metals to bring her ideas into the real world.
Karen Sunabacka
July 2022
Composer Karen Sunabacka is an Associate Professor of Music at Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo. She often finds inspiration from her Métis and mixed European heritage. She has deep roots in the Red River Settlement of Manitoba and feels a strong connection to the Métis, Scottish, Swedish and Finnish cultures. This mix of cultural connections sometimes creates conflicts and new perspectives which she finds both interesting and challenging. Her music reflects this cultural mix through the exploration of the sounds and stories of the Canadian prairies.