August 11^th – Dave & dee - Summer Reading Series at Café Terra in Eastend, SK
Kick back and relax this summer by joining us every Friday evening throughout July and August for our Summer Reading Series. We have an exciting list of brilliant guest authors, many whom live in the SW and have been, at some point, resident writers of Eastend’s Stegner House. We also have a folklorist and local talented unpublished authors taking part and we are honoured to present the Eastend Write for Your Life group on July 28. The reading series winds up with an open mike night August 25.
There is no charge to attend the readings. Weather permitting, the events will take place outside on our new patio.
Readings begin at 7:30 pm
Music buskers welcome (time is limited)
Wood fired pizza available for purchase 5:15-7:15 pm. Beer and wine, coffee and tea, and cold specialty beverages also for sale.
 
Dave Margoshes
Dave Margoshes is a full-time writer and poet living on a farm outside of Saskatoon. He was born in the United States, and attended school in New York City and rural New Jersey. He received a BA from the University of Iowa and later returned to its well-known Writers’ Workshop for a MFA. Margoshes worked for various newspapers in the USA before moving to Canada in the early 1970s. Here he worked for newspapers in Vancouver and Calgary, and taught journalism at Mount Royal College and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. In 1986, he moved to Saskatchewan and began freelance writing. Margoshes’ work in fiction, poetry and nonfiction has been recognized with numerous awards and honours
http://www.oolichan.com/author-dave-margoshes
 
dee Hobsbawn-Smith
dee Hobsbawn-Smith’s award-winning poetry, essays and short fiction has appeared in publications in Canada, the USA, Scotland and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, SK. A freelance journalist and retired chef, she lives west of Saskatoon with her partner, the poet and writer, Dave Margoshes. Her debut poetry collection, Wildness Rushing In, was published in 2014. What Can’t Be Undone: Stories was published in 2015 by Thistledown Press. She’s working on her first novel and an essay collection-in-progress, Bread & Water. She’s a local foods advocate, has been active in Slow Food for fifteen years, and she’s written a stack of books about food, including Foodshed: An Edible Alberta Alphabet (Touchwood Editions, 2012)
https://deehobsbawnsmith.com/