Joseph Naytowhow
Joseph Naytowhow is a gifted Plains/Woodland Cree (nehiyaw) singer/songwriter, storyteller, and voice, stage and film actor from the Sturgeon Lake First Nation Band in Saskatchewan. As a child, Joseph was influenced by his grandfather’s traditional and ceremonial chants as well as the sounds of the fiddle and guitar. Today he is renowned for his unique style of Cree/English storytelling, combined with original contemporary music and traditional First Nations drum and rattle songs.
Tim Lilburn
Tim Lilburn is the author of seven previous books of poetry, including To the River, Kill-site, and Orphic Politics. His work has received the Governor General’s Award and the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, among other prizes. Lilburn is also the author of two essay collections, Living in the World as if It Were Home and Going Home, and edited two other collections on poetics. He teaches at the University of Victoria.
Lorna Crozier
An Officer of the Order of Canada, Lorna Crozier has been acknowledged for her contributions to Canadian literature, her teaching and her mentoring with five honourary doctorates, most recently from McGill and Simon Fraser Universities. Her books have received numerous national awards, including the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry. Lorna Crozier lives on Vancouver Island.
Lynn Stegner
Lynn Stegner’s books have been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and Faulkner Award for Best Novel. Over the last decade, she has involved herself in conservation, speaking and writing frequently on the subject, and collaborating with conservation biologists. She teaches for Stanford University and is also a developmental editor. Lynn Stegner married the late novelist, historian, and essayist, Page Stegner, son of Wallace Stegner. She divides her time between San Francisco, California and northern Vermont.
Darla Tenold
The October resident is writer Darla Tenold from Saskatoon, SK. Rather than write stories that are human centred, which is the trend in modern literature, Darla’s goal is to write stories that are Life centred. During her residency, she will be working on a collection of literary short stories.
Sharon Butala
Sharon Butala is the author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, numerous essays and articles, some poetry and five produced plays.
Angela Waldie
Angela Waldie is a poet and creative nonfiction writer. She completed her PhD in English at the University of Calgary, where her research focused on species extinction in Canadian and American literature.
David Carpenter
Carpenter began writing as a reviewer and translator before turning to writing fiction in the mid-1980s. Since 1985, he has published five novels and three collections of novellas and short fiction.
Trevor Herriot
Trevor Herriot is a prairie naturalist, activist, and writer living on the northern edge of the Great Plains in Regina, Saskatchewan. His writing has appeared in the Globe & Mail and Canadian Geographic, as well as several anthologies.
Colin Starkevich
Colin was awarded residence at the house for the month of June 2015. During this time he was inspired by the native grassland surrounding the Eastend area to create a number of plein air paintings.