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In Phases, Belinda Betker deftly captures what it is like for those who don’t fit within rigid notions of what it means to be a “boy” or a “girl”. Capturing different phases in a life, with power and nuance she takes readers on a luminous journey of a young girl’s coming-of-age, her burgeoning sexuality (and the confusion and disorientation therein), the pitfalls of an unhappy marriage, the triumphant release of coming out, and the liberating power of drag.

Belinda Betker is a prairie-born poet living in Saskatoon. Her work is published in several anthologies, including Fast Forward: New Saskatchewan Poets, and Spring (Vols. 7, 8, & 9); as well as in various literary journals and chapbooks. She is a founding and long-time board member of the Saskatoon Writers Collective; and a founding/core member of two Saskatoon writing groups – Sisters’ Ink, and Obsessors.

Cindy Clarke
The Blue Dress

Cindy Clarke is an assistant professor in curriculum studies at Brandon University and a poet. At an early age, her family immigrated from the urban sprawl of California to a small store located 100 kilometers north of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, on the side of the highway in the northern Canadian boreal forest.  The isolation and wildness of this isolated landscape became a force that influenced and shaped both Clarke’s academic and creative writing. Many of the poems from The Blue Dress first appeared in Clarke’s doctoral dissertation, Beyond the Muskeg, which won the University of Saskatchewan Outstanding Dissertation Award in Social Sciences in 2017.  In addition to many academic publications, Clarke has had poetry published in several journals including The Antigonish Review, FreeFall, and The Nashwaak Review.  She currently lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with her partner, Brian, and their two dogs.

Come and meet these Saskatoon authors, and enjoy readings from their newly published works.  Everyone is welcome!  Books for sale.