Glenda Goertzen | |
|---|---|
 Glenda Goertzen in the Great Sandhills of Saskatchewan, Canada | |
| Born | 1967 (age 56–57) Morse, Saskatchewan |
| Occupation | Author |
| Genre |
|
Glenda Goertzen (born 1967) is a Canadian author of children's and young adult fantasy, including the children's novel The Prairie Dogs. [1]
Goertzen wrote the first draft of The Prairie Dogs while she was in high school. She got a degree in Film and Video at the University of Regina and worked as a computer graphics and animation artist, then went to work for CKTV Regina in a variety of technical positions.
In 1998 she moved to Saskatoon to take the Library and Information Program at SIAST, where she completed The Prairie Dogs. Shortly after moving to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in 2005, The Prairie Dogs was published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside. [1] Goerten published City Dogs in 2007, Miracle Dogs in 2012, and Lady Oak Abroad in 2014. [2]
The North-West Rebellion, also known as the North-West Resistance, was an armed resistance movement by the Métis under Louis Riel and an associated uprising by Cree and Assiniboine of the District of Saskatchewan, North-West Territories, against the Canadian government. Many Métis felt that Canada was not protecting their rights, their land, and their survival as a distinct people. Fighting broke out in late March, and the conflict ended in June. About 91 people were killed in the fighting that occurred that spring before the conflict ended with the capture of Batoche in May 1885.
Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province, and is a commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. As of the 2021 census, Regina had a city population of 226,404, and a metropolitan area population of 249,217. It is governed by Regina City Council. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Sherwood No. 159.
Sandra Louise Birdsell, CM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer of Métis and Mennonite heritage from Morris, Manitoba.
Bonnie Burnard was a Canadian short story writer and novelist, best known for her 1999 novel, A Good House, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Sharon Butala is a Canadian writer and novelist.
The University of Regina is a public university located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Founded in 1911 as a private denominational high school of the Methodist Church of Canada, it began an association with the University of Saskatchewan as a junior college in 1925, and was disaffiliated by the Church and fully ceded to the university in 1934; in 1961 it attained degree-granting status as the Regina Campus of the University of Saskatchewan. It became an autonomous university in 1974. The University of Regina has an enrolment of over 15,000 full and part-time students. The university's student newspaper, The Carillon, is a member of CUP.
Luther College is a university college and high school located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The university campus of Luther College is located on the campus of the University of Regina and serves as a federated college of the university. The high school is located at 1500 Royal Street. There are approximately 1000 students and 300 employees at Luther College with an approximately $20.1M budget across both campuses. As a federated college, Luther College is administratively and financially independent, but academically integrated with the University of Regina. Luther students will earn a University of Regina degree when they graduate. University of Regina.
Anne Szumigalski, SOM was a Canadian poet.
Connie Isabelle Kaldor, is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. She is the recipient of three Juno awards.
The Prairie Junior Hockey League is a Junior "B" ice hockey league in Saskatchewan, Canada, sanctioned by Hockey Canada.
Linda Aksomitis, née Demyen, is a Canadian author specialising in YA and children's adventure, folktale and fairy tale retellings as well as travel literature. She also writes nonfiction and fiction about the history of the snowmobile. She is a former president of the Saskatchewan Writer's Guild.
Zarqa Nawaz is a Canadian creator and producer for film and television, a published author, public speaker, journalist, and former broadcaster.
Beth Goobie is a Canadian poet and fiction writer.
Pamela Paige Porter is a Canadian novelist and poet. She was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and has also lived in Texas, Louisiana, Washington, and Montana. She emigrated to Canada with her husband Rob Porter, from the fourth generation of a Saskatchewan farm family, and resides in North Saanich, British Columbia. She has received praise for her young adult novels, especially The Crazy Man. Her poetry has won the Prism International Poetry Prize and the Vallum Magazine Poetry Prize, and has appeared in literary magazines in Canada and the United States.
Joan Givner is an essayist, biographer, and novelist, known for her biographies of women, short stories, and the Ellen Fremendon series of novels for younger readers that was finalist for the Silver Birch Awards, the 2006 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award for Ellen Fremedon, and the Diamond Willow Awards.
Wynona Croft Mulcaster was a Canadian painter and teacher from Saskatchewan, best known for her prairie landscapes. She also played an important role in developing competitive riding in Saskatoon.
Illingworth "Buck" Kerr was a Canadian painter, illustrator and writer. He is best known for his landscape paintings of the Saskatchewan and Alberta prairies and foothills.
Judith Silverthorne, née Judith Iles is a Canadian author specializing in children's literature, as well as nonfiction about historical Saskatchewan woodworkers and furniture makers, and an immigrant potter, Peter Rupchan.
Erin Bow is an American-born Canadian author. Among other awards and honors, she won the 2011 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for Plain Kate, the 2014 Monica Hughes Award for Sorrow's Knot, the 2016 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award for The Scorpion Rules, and a 2019 Governor General's Award for Stand on the Sky.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
