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Author Spotlight for July: Sharon King

Jul 4, 2023

Sharon King, the author and illustrator of the award-winning children's board book, Amik (2021), is from the Wasauksing First Nation near Parry Sound. She is an author, performer, and producer, and works as an educator at Wausauksing. In 1999, King was nominated for a Juno Award as part of the Indigenous women's vocal group, Hearts of the Nations, in the category Best Music of Aboriginal [sic] Canada Recording. In 2022, King's bilingual children's board book, Amik, won the bronze medal in the...

Author Spotlight for June: Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch

Jun 1, 2023

Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch is a man of many roles and many talents. He is from the Nimkii Aazhibikoong First Nation and is Ojibwe of the Fish Clan. He is an artist, storyteller, singer-songwriter, activist, author, public speaker, and knowledge keeper. He currently lives in the forest at Nimkii Aazhibikoong, an Indigenous community that focuses on Indigenous language, art, and land-based activities. He was blessed with the ability to grow up in a traditional setting, living by hunting and...

Sky Dancer, poet Louise B. Halfe, with her two new Kegedonce Press editions of Blue Marrow and The Crooked Good.

Author Spotlight for March: Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer

Mar 1, 2023

For International Women’s History Month we feature Sky Dancer, Louise B. Halfe. Her celebrated poetry collections Bear Bones and Feathers, Burning in this Midnight Dream, Blue Marrow, and The Crooked Good have earned many awards and accolades. Sky Dancer served as the second poet laureate for Saskatchewan in 2005 and has just finished her tenure as the 2022 Parliamentary Poet Laureate for Canada. A member of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation, Halfe attended the Blue Quills residential school when...

Author Spotlight for February: Smokii Sumac

Feb 3, 2023

This month, we shine the spotlight on Smokii Sumac, author of you are enough: love poems for the end of the world. We caught up with Smokii recently and learned about some amazing new projects he is currently working on. Kegedonce Press: What has changed for you, with regards to poetry and writing, since publishing you are enough? Smokii Sumac: you are enough is a collection of poems written almost daily over the span of two years. I would love to say I continued that practice, however, once...

photo of author Marjorie Beaucage and cover of her book, leave some for the birds.

Welcome new Kegedonce Press author Marjorie Beaucage

Jan 20, 2023

A warm Kegedonce Press welcome to acclaimed filmmaker, artist, activist and poet Marjorie Beaucage, whose book leave some for the birds: movements for justice will be released in spring, 2023. Marjorie Beaucage is a Two-Spirit Métis Auntie, filmmaker, art-ivist and educator, a land protector and a water walker. Born in Vassar, Manitoba, to a large Métis family, Marjorie’s life’s work has been about creating social change, working to give people the tools for creating possibilities and right...

photo of Basil Johnston and his six Kegedonce Press book covers.

Author Spotlight for January, Basil Johnston

Jan 3, 2023

As part of the celebration of our 30th Anniversary, every month in 2023 we will be shining the spotlight on one of our amazing authors! We begin the year with Basil Johnston, esteemed Anishinaabe writer, storyteller, language teacher and scholar. Kegedonce Press has had the great honour of publishing not one but six of Basil Johnston’s books. Basil was born in Wasauksing First Nation in 1929, and later moved to the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation. He wrote many books in both English...

A Special Year…

Jan 1, 2023

2023 has begun! This is a very special year for Kegedonce Press: It’s our 30th anniversary! The press began back in 1993 with the publication of My Heart is a Stray Bullet by founder and managing editor Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm. Kateri founded Kegedonce Press as a publishing house that would feel welcoming to Indigenous authors, especially those publishing for the first time. As a dedicated Indigenous press, part of our mission is to preserve Indigenous voices as they are, even when it means...