River Volta Reading Series- Karin Melberg Schwier & Katherine Lawrence

River Volta is a literary reading series in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan run by the students of the MFA in Writing program at the University of Saskatchewan. Every month we have featured readers and sometimes an open mic!

River Volta Reading Series

A freelance writer, editor and illustrator, Karin contributes to Saskatoon HOME and Prairies North magazines. She has spent over 25 years in communications work for an advocacy organization for people with intellectual disabilities and produced an award-winning news magazine.Karin has written six non-fiction books and two illustrated children’s books exploring the lives of people with disabilities, including the bestseller, Sexuality: Your Sons and Daughters with Intellectual Disabilities, which she co-authored (2000).In 2013, Karin received a YWCA Women of Distinction Award (Arts, Culture and Heritage) for her writing on disability issues. Her debut novel, Small Reckonings (Burton House Books) won the 2019 Hicks Award for Fiction, a 2021 Saskatchewan Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Glengarry Book Award. The sequel has just been completed.Saskatoon writer Katherine Lawrence is the author of four poetry collections including Stay, a young adult novel-in-verse. Her new collection of poems, Black Umbrella, will be released by Turnstone Press in April. Originally from Hamilton, Katherine has lived in Saskatoon for over 35 years. She is a former writer-in-residence with Saskatoon Public Library and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the U of S.Katherine is a two-time winner of the John Hicks Long Manuscript Award and is also a Saskatchewan Book Award winner.

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