Paul
Seesequasis
Paul Seesequasisis a Willow Cree curator, writer, editor, and journalist. He is the author of the award-winning Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun. While at Berton House, he plans to complete an essay for his next book Gaze on George Johnston, the Tlingit photographer who lived in Teslin, Yukon. Seesequasis curated the first-ever exhibition of James Brady’s photographs, Enclosing Some Snapshots, currently touring Western Canada and has published extensively in newspapers, magazines, journals as well as radio and television. He is the founder and curator of the online Indigenous Archival Photo Project. He is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada, a board member of Access Copyright Foundation and the recipient of a month-long scholarship at the Das Literarische Colloquium Berlin (LCB) in Berlin in July 2022. Seesequasis lives in Saskatoon.
Juror History
Program History
Writer in Residence
2022
Berton House Writers’ Residency- Awards
- Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
- Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
- Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
- Weston International Award
- Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
- Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
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