Saskatoon Public Library announces new writer in residence

The Saskatoon Public Library has announced its 2024/2025 writer-in-residence.

“It’s truthful awesome to have, a writer present that is truthful good versed successful different genres of writing, successful nan community. And I deliberation will beryllium a very bully catalyst for nan penning organization and for, you know, group to study immoderate different angles astir their writing,” said Beth Cote, Interim head of Libraries and CEO of Saskatoon Public Library.

Garry Thomas Morse, an accomplished novelist and writer will beryllium filling nan role.

Morse is known for his respective collections of poesy including ‘Discovery Passages’ which explores nan history of his Kwakwaka’wakw Indigenous ancestors, fabrication bid The Chaos! Quincunx, caller ‘Death successful Vancouver’ and caller ‘Yams Do Not Exist’, which takes spot successful Regina and Winnipeg and features an afterlife series group successful Saskatoon.

“So, I was surviving connected nan separator of nan prairies pinch (only) nan hares to talk to,” said Morse. “And I wrote a book called Yams Do Not Exist. And it benignant of takes (place) half successful Regina and half of it successful Winnipeg. And past there’s an afterlife series successful Saskatoon, because I was rather inspired moreover pinch years ago.”

Morse will big workshops, supply individual guidance to section writers.

“It’s a free work of nan public. So, what you tin do is nan accusation will beryllium disposable starting successful August wherever you tin registry for workshops,” said Morse.

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“We person a batch of group who travel and do nan 1 connected one, workshops with, pinch nan writer successful residence. So, bringing successful their ain penning and benignant of moving done immoderate of nan things that they mightiness beryllium struggling pinch and learning astir process,” said Cote.

“They tin registry done nan website. And past they tin besides conscionable travel and popular successful and sojourn them during agency hours and meet them and spot if they tin schedule a clip that way, too,” said Jenny Ryan, Saskatoon Public room organization librarian.

Morse said he besides will beryllium penning a Saskatoon-based caller and poesy postulation during his residency.

“I’ve sewage a scheme for nan novel, truthful far, it’s tentatively titled Toontown,” said Morse.

“So, there’s an aspiring screenwriter, and he goes astir Saskatoon, but he besides useful connected these scripts — truthful there’s fragments of scripted, almost for illustration movie style bits that travel into nan novel. And they support reflecting and changing and adding layers of reality to what his mundane life (is like) and really he’s turning that into almost for illustration movie structures.”

He has served 2 different residencies 1 astatine nan University of Toronto successful 2018 and 1 astatine nan University of Winnipeg successful 2019.

“It’s really gratifying to, to get a position for illustration this. I haven’t. I did a residency, immoderate years backmost astatine University of Toronto. That was wherever I was conducting a afloat workshop, and that was cool. And so, it’s bully to person those opportunities to do those kinds of things again.”

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