Write Out Loud season line-up announced
The Write Out Loud Committee extends an invitation to Swift Current and area bibliophiles to indulge their love for books by attending the upcoming season of author readings at the Lyric Theatre. Write Out Loud is pleased to continue the tradition of welcoming a host of interesting and accomplished authors.
The line-up for 2019 -2020 includes: September 18 – Gail Bowen Popular Regina-based author of the Joanne Kilbourn Shreve murder mysteries, Bowen returns to WOL to share her latest, A Darkness of the Heart. October 16 – Angie Abdou
A fiction writer from Fernie, BC, Abdou’s latest work, Home Ice: Reflections of a Reluctant Hockey Mom, is an intensely heartfelt foray into memoir. November 20 – Dr. Erica Dyck
A University of Saskatchewan professor and Canada Research Chair in the history of medicine with an emphasis on psychiatry and mental health, Dr. Dyck will present from one of her many publications, Managing Madness.
Special addition to Write Out Loud
Saturday, November 16 – Ted Barris
Barris is a renowned historian, broadcaster, and journalist living in Toronto. His latest work is Rush to Danger: Medics in the Line of Fire. February 19 – Local Writers’ Night Line-up to be announced closer to the event. March 11 – Tenille Campbell Campbell is a Dene/metis author and photographer from the English River First Nation in Northern Saskatchewan who will share her awardwinning collection, Indian Love Poems, as well as some of her new work.
April 15 – Jeanette Lynes
A multiple-award winning poet and creative writing instructor at numerous locations in Canada, the US, and Europe, Lynes is currently Coordinator of the Masters of Fine Arts Writing Program at the U of S. Her second and latest novel is The Small Things That End the World.
Admission for each Write Out Loud evening is $8, and doors open at the Lyric Theatre at 6:30 p.m. Musical entertainment begins nightly at 7 p.m., with the featured author to follow.