Storyknife
June 2024
In-residence at Storyknife, Homer Alaska
Overlooking Cook Inlet and the heart-stopping grandeur of the Aleutian Mountain Range, Storyknife Writers Retreat, a literary nonprofit located in Homer, Alaska, hosts residencies for women from Alaska, across the United States, and internationally. Our mission is to give women writers the time and space to explore their craft without distraction. Storyknife provides women with a community to support their efforts, lifting their voices.
Past Events
While living and working at Joy Kogawa House in March 2024, Lisa will research, write, and edit a book-length memoir with the working title “Magpie Dreams.” To share artistic practices with local writers while in residence, Lisa will present the following community-engaged writing program:
Magpie Dreams: Seeking and Finding Family through Memoir
Lisa Bird-Wilson is a Métis and Cree author adopted and raised by a white family in Saskatchewan. She is working on a memoir to tell her story of reconnecting with her birth family, culture, and traditional homeland. This workshop includes a discussion of finding voice through creative non-fiction and the medium of memoir to organize and tell one’s own story. Questions we will consider include: does memoir need a theme, who owns the facts of your story, and how is storytelling a site of resistance?
To be held Sunday, March 10, 2024, 3:00 to 4:30pm, in the living room at Joy Kogawa House.
October 2022-May 2023 Poetry Downtown, City of Saskatoon, featuring poems from six local poets displayed on the 3rd Avenue poster directories between 19th Street and 23nd Street in Downtown Saskatoon. The theme of the project is Reconciliation.
October 21-22, 2022 – Saskatchewan Writer’s Guild Conference:
Friday October 21 4:30-5:30pm, “Agents for Fiction Writers” Panel Presentation;
Saturday October 22 7pm Host, John V. Hicks Long Manuscript Award celebration
October 19, 2022 – Write Out Loud, Lyric Theatre, Swift Current SK: http://www.lyrictheatre.ca/
October 13, 2022 – Remai Modern, Artful Readings, book club event featuring Probably Ruby.
7-9pm
September 30, 2022 Regina Public Library National Day for Truth and Reconciliation event
speaker. 12-1pm
September 22, 2022 – Read Saskatoon, Broadway Theatre, Saskatoon, SK, Author Event
July 14-17, 2022 – Festival of Words, Moose Jaw, SK: https://www.festivalofwords.com/
June 9-12, 2022 – Rama First Nation Gathering Festival, Orillia, ON
April 28, 2022 – Well-Read Native Book Club: https://wellreadnative.com/
April 5, 2022 – Probably Ruby US book release:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669226/probably-ruby-by-lisa-bird-wilson/
November 4-6, 2021 – Ânskohk Festival, Saskatoon SK
October 21-31, 2021 – Toronto International Festival of Authors
October 18-24, 2021 – Vancouver Writers Festival
October 14-17, 2021 – Whistler Writers Festival
August 24, 2021 – Probably Ruby book release: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/669226/probably-ruby-by-lisa-bird-wilson/9780385696685
Ânskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival, 2019
Lisa Bird-Wilson 