Upcoming Events

• Thursday, March 30, 2023. Going Wild in the Garden, with Joanne Blythe. Check gardening.usask.ca for details

• Thursday, February 24, 2023. 7 pm. Kloppenburg Award celebration and reading, Saskatoon Public Library

• Wednesday, November 2, 2022. 7 pm. Writers’ Trust of Canada Awards. Glen Gould Studio, Toronto

• Wednesday, September 28, 2022. 12:30 pm. Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Awards event, Saskatoon

News

In the fall of 2022, Candace received TWO awards for life-time contributions to Canadian writing:
• In September, she became the lucky 13th Saskatchewan writer to receive the Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellent. Watch her acceptance video here.
• In November, she was honoured to receive the Matt Cohen Award in Celebration of a Writing Life. More about that here.
• Candace was nominated by l’Assemblée communautaire fransaskoise for their Prix amies des fransaskois, to recognize Strangers in the House/Des Iconnus sous mon toît.
• Strangers in the House was re-released in the fall of 2020 as Des Inconnus sous mon toît: une histoire d’exclusion les francophones des Plaines, a translation by Michel Saint-Germain, published by Québec-Amérique.
A Geography of Blood was chosen as the featured book for the Saskatchewan Library Association One Book One Province project in March, 2020.
• Hello, Crow!
earned a spot on CBC Book’s list of 30 picture book to watch for this fall.
Strangers in the House was chosen as one of the most anticipated books of the 2019 publishing season by both CBC Books and the 49th Shelf.
• Strangers in the House was reviewed in the Toronto Star by the fabulous Sue Carter.
• Strangers in the House received a rave review in Canada’s History magazine.

Upcoming Events

• Monday, March 2, 2020. 7:00 pm. John M. Cuelenaere Public Library, Prince Albert, SK
• Tuesday, March 3, 2020.  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm.  Frances Morrison Central Library, Saskatoon, SK
• Wednesday, March 4, 2020. 7:30 pm. Goodrich Centre, Radisson, SK
• Tuesday, March 10, 2020. 7 pm. Moose Jaw Public Library, Moose Jaw, SK
• Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Weyburn Public Library, Weyburn, SK
• Thursday, March 12, 2020. 7 pm. Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, SK
• Monday, March 16, 2020. 7 pm. St Peter’s College Library. Muenster, SK
• Tuesday, March 24, 2020. 2 pm.Grand Coteau Heritage & Culture Centre, Shaunavon, SK
• Wednesday, March 25, 2020. Assiniboia Public Library, Assiniboia, SK
• Monday, May 11, 2020. Zoological Education Trust lecture, Saskatoon details.

News

A Geography of Blood has been chosen as the featured book for the Saskatchewan Library Association One Book One Province project in March, 2020.
• Hello, Crow!
is on CBC Book’s list of 30 picture book to watch for this fall.
Strangers in the House has been chosen as one of the most anticipated books of the fall publishing season by both CBC Books and the 49th Shelf.
• Strangers in the House is featured in the cover story of the September issue of Quill & Quire and in the annual report of the Saskatchewan Arts Board.
• Strangers in the House is in the Toronto Star, September 21.
• Strangers in the House received a rave review in Canada’s History magazine.

Savage’s verbal account, laden with its wealth of current scientific discovery and impelled with its sense of the
miraculous in nature, eclipses the beauty of its own visuals.
–Globe & Mail
Savage’s verbal account, laden with its wealth of current scientific discovery and impelled with its sense of the
miraculous in nature, eclipses the beauty of its own visuals.
–Globe & Mail