Publishing week

SaskBooks will be celebrating Saskatchewan Publishing Week from September 12-18 with a series of five readings in five historically significant places in Saskatchewan. The theme this year is historical methods of transportation, including canoes, trains, Red River carts, steam boats, and more.

“It’s an ambitious project,” says SaskBooks Co-Executive Director Brenda Niskala. “In this first year of our reading tour, we’re pleased and excited to celebrate our incredible Saskatchewan publishers and to bring so many different authors to these communities.”

Nine authors representing nine different Saskatchewan publishers will read at different locations throughout the province. The readings kick off in the La Ronge Public Library on September 12 where authors Harold Johnson, Tim Jones, Cheri Helstrom, and Robert Clipperton will read from their recent books. The readings continue at the Batoche National Historic Site, the Western Development Museum in Yorkton, the Deep South Pioneer Museum in Ogema, and end the week at the Maple Creek Cowboy Poetry Gathering. Other authors include Sharon Butala, Joan Soggie, Byrna Barclay, Wilfred Burton, and Judith Silverthorne. Represented publishers include Coteau Books, Gabriel Dumont Institutue, Your Nickel’s Worth Press, Burton House Books, Saskatchewan Archaeological Society, Thistledown Press, University of Regina Press, Joan Soggie, and DriverWorks Ink. Books will be for sale at each event. SaskBooks will also be at Word on the Street in Saskatoon on September 18.

All of the readings, except in Maple Creek, are free and open to the public. For passes to the Maple Creek Cowboy Poetry Gathering, see www.maplecreekcowboypoetry.com.

SaskBooks is Saskatchewan’s provincial creative industry association for book publishers. SaskBooks is a member-based not-for-profit association whose members are book publishers operating in Saskatchewan. SaskBooks provides programs and services to its publisher members, including professional development, co-operative and joint marketing projects, and acts as a champion for the book publishing sector in the province.

For more information about SaskBooks and Saskatchewan Publishing Week, please visit www.skbooks.com or contact: Courtney Bates-Hardy, Project Coordinator, SaskBooks, 306-551-3834 [email protected]