Fireside Chat with Candace Savage, hosted by Megan Cole

Join us on September 12 at 7:00 pm PT by registering here and a Zoom link for the event will be sent to you. When it’s time for the event you can click on the Zoom link to join the event.

We are excited to present FBCW's Fireside Chat with Candace Savage. This chat will be about an hour long and will feature our special guest host, Megan Cole. The audience will have an opportunity to ask questions.

Digital doors open at 6:55pm!

Candace Savage was born in the Peace River Country of northern Alberta and educated at the University of Alberta. She is the award-winning author of more than two dozen books for adults and children, including Strangers in the House, A Geography of Blood (recipient of the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction,) and Prairie: a natural history, among others. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, she received both the Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence and the Matt Cohen Award for a Writing Life in 2023. In addition to her work as a writer, she plays accordion in the Saskatoon Fiddle Orchestra, chairs Wild about Saskatoon and co-chairs the Swale Watchers, serves on advisory boards for CPAWS Saskatchewan and the Meewasin Valley Authority and is a member of the National Council of The Writers Union of Canada. She lives and writes in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Megan Cole is a tattooed food enthusiast with an obsessive reading habit. She has been published in The Puritan, Invisiblog, untethered and more. She is writing her first book Head Over Feet: The Lasting Heart Ache of First Loves. Megan is the Director of Programming and Communications for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. She lives in Powell River, BC, on the land of the Tla'amin Nation.

**This event will be recorded.