News for 2012
The recipient of Canada's largest literary prize, now available:
A Geography of Blood
Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape
A bestselling author embarks on a profound and dramatic journey through the
eloquent landscape of southwestern Saskatchewan
When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town
of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the
area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated
American writer, Wallace Stegner; the back roads of the Cypress Hills; the
dinosaur skeletons at the T.Rex Discovery Centre; the fossils to be found in the
dust-dry hills. She also revels in her encounters with the wild inhabitants of this
mysterious land—three coyotes in a ditch at night, their eyes glinting in the dark;
a deer at the window; a cougar pussy-footing it through a gully a few minute’s
walk from town.
But as Savage explores further, she uncovers a darker reality—a story of
cruelty and survival set in the still-recent past—and finds that she must
reassess the story she grew up with as the daughter, granddaughter, and
great-granddaughter of prairie homesteaders. More...
Candace Savage wins Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-
Fiction
When Candace Savage finally published A Geography of Blood: Unearthing
Memory from a Prairie Landscape, earlier this year, she went back and looked
at the original contract for the book: “I signed it eight years ago. Isn’t that
outrageous? More...
Readings and Talks
Upcoming
Nov. 22, 2012. Public talk, Grasslands in Peril forum, Regina
January 25-26, 2013. Writing North, Saskatoon
February 7, 2013. Saskatchewan Archives event, Saskatoon
March 25, 2013. Reading, St. Peters College, Muenster
April 27, 2013. Literary Showcase, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Regina
July 18-21, 2013. Saskatchewan Festival of Words, Moose Jaw
Recent
October 28, 2012. Reading, LitFest, Edmonton, AB
October 26-27, 2012. Reading and presentations, Saskatchewan Writers Guild
Fall Conference, Saskatoon, SK
October 17, 2012. Reading, McNally Robinson Booksellers, Winnipeg, MB
October 13, 2012. Reading, Twin Cities Book Festival, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
October 4-6, 2012: Humanities Montana Festival of the Book, Missoula, MT
September 22, 2012. After-dinner talk at the Sustainable Gourmet Banquet,
Saskatchewan Environmental Society.
September 20, 2012. Joint book launch for A Geography of Blood and Lorna
Crozier's The Book of Marvels, 7 p.m., Travel Alcove, McNally Robinson
Booksellers, Saskatoon
August 6-10, 2012: Keynote speaker, 23rd North American Prairie Conference,
Winnipeg, MB
October 18, 2011: Moose Jaw Public Library
September 23, 2011 Word on the Street, Saskatoon, SK
April 28, 2011: Interpretive Guides Association, Banff Y
March 12, 2011: Saskatchewan Wildlife Rehabilitation Society dinner, guest
speaker
November 1, 2010: Brevoort Park Elementary School, Saskatoon
November 15, 2010: Leader Public Library
October 24, 2010: Lolacanola Honey Event, Edmonton
October 22-23, 2010: LitFest, Edmonton
