Join the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild and City of Regina to celebrate the 2025 City of Regina Writing Award on Thursday, May 29, at 7:00 pm at Hotel Saskatchewan (2125 Victoria Avenue). The Award show will feature readings by winner Courtney Bates-Hardy and runners-up Suzy Krause and Gordon Portman.
This is a free event open to the public; all are welcome. Reception to follow the program.
Hotel Saskatchewan is a fully wheelchair accessible venue.
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2025 Award Winner Courtney Bates-Hardy
Courtney Bates-Hardy is the author of Anatomical Venus (Radiant Press, 2024), House of Mystery (2016), and a chapbook, Sea Foam (JackPine Press, 2013). Anatomical Venus is shortlisted for two Saskatchewan Book Awards. Bates-Hardy’s poems have been featured in Best Canadian Poetry 2021 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is queer and disabled, and one-quarter of a writing group called The Pain Poets.
2025 Runners-Up
Suzy Krause is the bestselling author of Sorry I Missed You, Valencia and Valentine, and I Think We’ve Been Here Before. She grew up on a little farm in rural Saskatchewan and now lives in Regina, where she writes novels inspired by crappy jobs, creepy houses, personal metaphorical apocalypses, and favourite songs. Her work has been translated into Russian and Estonian.
Gordon Portman has been a professional writer and teacher for more than thirty-five years. For much of that time, his work has primarily been associated with theatre; however, for the past fifteen+ years he has been a creative writing instructor/mentor at Brandon University, where he introduced students to a range of techniques associated with all four of the main writing disciplines – non-fiction, fiction, drama, and poetry. He is a recipient of several creation/production grants; has twice been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Prize in non-fiction (most recently in 2024), and most recently has been published in the anthology This Is Beyond.
Submissions were adjudicated anonymously by Canadian judges Finnian Burnett and Molly Cross-Blanchard.
The award is sponsored by the City of Regina and administered by the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild.
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