Sage Hill Writing Experience

10/06/2026

🥳🪻Congratulations to these recent alumni publications!

From left to right:

"I (Athena)"
Author: Ruth DyckFehderau
Published by NeWest Press in April, 2023

"E nâtamukw miyeyimuwin:
Residential School Recovery Stories of the James Bay Cree, Volume 1"
Author: Ruth DyckFehderau
Published by Wilfred Laurier University Press in March, 2023

"A Single Syllable of Wild"
Author: Angela Waldie
Published by Frontenac House on April 15, 2026

"The Thirty-Three and a Third Revolutions"
Author: Michael Chouinard
Published by MEC33 Publishing on December 17, 2025

"Folded Oceans: Chapbook"
Author: Foster Gareau
Published by Cactus Press Poetry on September 20, 2026

"The Tinder Sonnets"
Author: Jennifer LoveGrove
Published by Bookhug Press on April 7, 2026

🎉 Congratulations to: 🎉

🟣 Risa Horowitz for publishing "Sketch for a series addressing the Arctic imaginary of being alone-ness" in the print copy of Volume 2 of Polarlit! You can also find the work at this link:
https://www.polarlit.com/articles/sketch-for-a-series-addressing-the-arctic-imaginary-of-being-alone-ness/

🟣 Kathy Fisher for producing spoken word shows! You can watch the video-poem, titled "wabi-sabi", here: https://vimeo.com/471188512

🟣 Natalie Kishchuk, for her short story titled "Trulie, Toronto, and Southwest Swale" being a finalist for the 2025 carte blanche prize. Natalie workshopped the story in the Sage Hill 2024 Emerging Prose online workshop, and benefited significantly from workshop colleagues' and instructor's generous comments.
https://qwf.org/the-2025-carte-blanche-prize-finalists/

If you are a Sage Hill alum who published in 2025 or 2026, and your work has not yet been featured in our social media posts, please email [email protected] with information about your book!

To see the complete list of alumni publications from 2023-2026, check out our Recent Publications page: https://sagehillwriting.ca/alumni/recent-publications/

09/29/2026

✨ The 2026 Youth Writers' Workshops were a huge success thanks to the wonderful participants, instructors, and guest authors! Thank you all for making this summer's youth programs memorable and fun!

📚 With a published author as the instructor, participants in our online and in-person workshops learned new writing skills in entertaining and creative ways. A few of them have attended Sage Hill Youth Programs before, and we hope that more of you come again next year!

💲 Did you know that it costs Sage Hill Writing a minimum of $350 per student to offer this workshop for free? Donations of any amount help us continue to support young writers and keep the program accessible to everyone!

💸 If you would like to donate, please visit https://sagehillwriting.ca/support-sage-hill/.

💻 Visit our website at sagehillwriting.ca and sign up for our newsletter for updates on next years' programs!

❣️Sage Hill’s Teen and Young Writers’ Workshops are made possible by generous donors, funders, and community partners.

SK Arts, SaskCulture, Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, Sask Lotteries, Saskatchewan Festival of Words, City of Saskatoon - Your Local Government, City of Regina | Municipal Government, Saskatoon Public Library, Regina Public Library, Prince Albert Public Library, SaskTel, Community Initiatives Fund

09/25/2026

🎊 Celebrating the 2026 in-person summer courses!

💝 Thank you to our instructors and participants for coming out to St. Peter's Abbey and quickly creating a fantastic community of writers. From improv to co-writing a story inspired by a rug, there was never a dull moment. We look forward to keeping in touch with each of you and celebrating your future successes!

✨ Thank you to Father Demetrius for being a gracious host and our funders (SK Arts, SaskCulture, Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, Sask Lotteries) for helping us make these programs happen.

💻 Visit our website at sagehillwriting.ca and sign up for our newsletter for updates on next years' programs!

09/23/2026

Looking Forward to Our 2027 Programming Season

09/23/2026

🌞 Celebrating the 2026 Online Summer Courses!

💗 Thanks to all the writers who attended the online Sage Hill summer courses and the instructors who made them such a success! We’re grateful for the communities that were formed in each course and the enthusiasm everybody brought every day.

📒 You showed each other fantastic support and encouragement in the reading events and throughout the 10-day programs in general.

💻 Visit our website at sagehillwriting.ca and sign up for our newsletter for updates on next years' programs!

Special thanks to: SK Arts, SaskCulture, Sask Lotteries, Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada

09/17/2026

2026 Programs Complete; Alumni Publications & Youth Publications - https://mailchi.mp/44717c98528c/2025_programs_complete-5864298

07/29/2026

📢 Join us this Friday for the Regina Teen Writers' Reading Event!

🕑 The event takes place on July 31st, 3:00 pm CST at the George Bothwell Branch Library, 2965 Gordon Rd.

💚 Everyone is welcome to attend and celebrate these young voices in our writing community.

📖 This event is possible thanks to a partnership between Regina Public Library and Sage Hill Writing.

See you there!

Special thanks to: SK Arts, Sask Lotteries, SaskCulture, Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, Community Initiatives Fund, SaskTel, City of Regina | Municipal Government

07/28/2026

📣 Join us this Friday for the Saskatoon Teen Writers' Reading Event!

🕜 The event takes place on July 31st at 2:30 pm CST. It is in-person at the Rusty MacDonald Branch Library, 225 Primrose Drive.

💓 Everyone is welcome to attend and celebrate these young voices in our writing community.

📖 This event is possible thanks to a partnership between Saskatoon Public Library and Sage Hill Writing.

See you there!

Special thanks to: SK Arts, Sask Lotteries, SaskCulture, Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, SaskTel, City of Saskatoon - Your Local Government, Community Initiatives Fund

07/24/2026

Another congratulations is in order for this wonderful publication by Sage Hill alumni & past instructor, Lisa Richter! 🎉💗

"Sublunary is an underworld Babylon and masterwork of controlled fire—‘The ultimate immersive experience!’—that turns the contestable purpose of poetry, and aboutness of a poem, on its head. In this resplendent collection, poems 'about' history, aesthetics, ancestry, aging, love, landscape, and dreams are revealed to be decoys for the great subjects, death and time. Richter’s shapeshifting virtuosity—a 'double exposure' of our lost worlds and living griefs—and her mystic's quest for a body and form to praise the real are the apotheosis of memory's ecstatic song." Virginia Konchan, author of Requiem
https://bit.ly/4wSWlI3

Lisa Richter: https://bit.ly/4fRcxmO

07/24/2026

Are you curious about the Prince Albert Young Writers' Workshop?

The Prince Albert Daily Herald held an interview with the P.A. Young Writers' Workshop instructor, Shauna Eveleigh Harris.

They talk about imagination, building confidence, and the importance of a literary community for youth.

You can read the article at this link: https://paherald.sk.ca/sage-hill-young-writers-workshop-encourages-prince-albert-youth-to-write/

Thank you, Prince Albert Daily Herald!