THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
By Ishmael N. Daro November 6, 2011
There are two kinds of people on this planet: those who type a single space after the end of their sentences, and those who stupidly, inexplicably and unforgivably double-space after the period.
I’m not entirely sure where people pick up this quirk, but I suspect it has to do with grade school teachers who themselves learned to type on typewriters, passing their bad habits on to impressionable students. And once learned, the double-spacers seemingly refuse to unlearn this lesson.
By Aren Bergstrom November 2, 2011
>National Novel Writing Month has become an online phenomenon and chances are you’ve heard one of your aspiring author friends talk about it over the years.
To the uninitiated, National Novel Writing Month, better known as NaNoWriMo, is an online writing challenge that encourages budding writers to write 50,000 words of an original novel during the month of November.
By Blair Woynarski September 7, 2011
The Festival of Words is simultaneously one of the most popular arts and culture events in Canada and, seemingly, Saskatchewan’s best-kept secret. Even though I grew up knowing about it and have been attending for the past seven years, whenever I bring it up in conversation, the response is, “Oh, what’s that?” Read on to find out.
By The Sheaf April 7, 2011
The lives of university students and prison inmates came together during a writing workshop at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre on April 2.
By Aren Bergstrom March 31, 2011
Script Frenzy is an online writing competition that challenges aspiring writers of every kind to write 100 pages of a script during the month of April. Be it a movie, television show, comic book or stage play, Script Frenzy encourages you to bust out your best script ideas and put pen to paper.
By Ashleigh Mattern May 7, 2010
The Saskatchewan Playwrights’ Centre hosted their annual 24-hour playwriting competition in Saskatoon this year. Although I’ve never written a play before, I decided to sign up, and kept track of the adventure by the hour.