Jaynie Himsl
November 2022
Jaynie Himsl uses fabric and a domestic sewing machine to make statements about her environment. Design classes over the years along with sewing skills practiced for decades provide a base for her creativity. Working intuitively, she uses a variety of materials to complete her original textile art. While at Wallace Stegner House Himsl plans to explore the area taking photos and observing the colours and light. These observations will be the inspiration for new textile landscapes. Jaynie Himsl is an award winning artist whose work has been exhibited in solo and group shows provincially, nationally and internationally. She resides in Weyburn, Saskatchewan.
Alexia Normand
Alexis will be writing acoustic songs in French and English that explore her linguistic insecurities and francophone identity - themes that are connected to a documentary film she wrote and directed for the National Film Board this past August.
Julie Burtinshaw
October 2021
Julie was born in Vancouver and has lived in many cities and towns both in and out of Canada. Julie is an award-winning author of seven books for young adults. Her last novel, Saying Goodbye to London was named one of the five outstanding books for children in the 2018, BC Book Prizes.
Maria Sabaye Moghaddam
September 2021
Maria Sabaye Moghaddam is the recipient of the 2021 Wallace Stegner Grant for the Arts. Maria is a writer, storyteller, and arts educator from Ottawa.
Beverly Sandalack
August 2021
Dr. Beverly Sandalack is a Professor at the University of Calgary (School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape) and a practicing landscape architect and planner. She writes, draws and paints. Her PhD thesis and several subsequent papers dealt with a methodology for urban analysis and design, with three prairie towns (including Eastend) as case studies. As part of a research process she completed abstract paintings of the three towns, and the painting of Eastend emphasized the river and the landscape.
Brian Hoxka
July 2021
Brian Hoxha is a painter of light whose work explores the natural world and the beauty and solace that he has found in the sunlit silence of nature. Serenity and solitude are his rewards, and he welcomes the viewer into this world through his landscape prints. While on location, Hoxha works either in oils or watercolours. In the studio, these works are translated into etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts. Hoxha often facilitates his travels by pursuing various residency programs in places where he would like to paint. These journeys have taken him to Montana, Newfoundland and Ireland.
Darrin Hagen
June 2021
Hagen has created over 40 plays, some of which have toured across Canada, and produced in the U.S. and Europe. His focus is LGBTQ history, uncovering hidden histories through extensive research, combining archives, evidence and eyewitness accounts with imagined scenes to tell stories of injustice against the LGBTQ population.
Andrea Olive
Andrea was born and raised in Regina and is now an associate professor of political science and geography at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She is the author of two books: The Canadian Environment in Political Context and Land, Legitimacy and Stewardship: Endangered Species Policy in Canada and the United States. She has a forthcoming manuscript on the history of wildlife policy in Saskatchewan. Her main area of interest is wildlife conservation, especially species at risk in Saskatchewan. She is also an avid long-distance runner and enjoys hiking, swimming, and listening to birds.
Ann Ward
Ann Ward is a writer, editor and teacher. Her work has appeared most recently in Pinwheel Journal, Peach Mag, No Tokens, This Magazine, Minola Review, and Powder Keg. Originally from Ontario, Canada, Ann has an MFA in Fiction from UMass Amherst and teaches at Bard Microcollege Holyoke, a college for women whose education has been interrupted by pregnancy, parenting, and systemic issues.
Dawna Rose
Dawna Rose uses a wide variety of media and materials in her artwork. She is currently concentrating on painting in oils and gouache. She has published two graphic books and a super 8 animation film. One of the books Smoking With My Mother won an Alcuin Society National Book award. The sculpture The Perfect Deck was featured in the Little Worlds exhibition at the Dunlop Gallery in Regina and the Mendel Gallery in Saskatoon. Dawna completed an MFA at the University of Saskatchewan. Dawna Rose lives and works in Saskatoon.