Tenille K. Campbell
Tenille Campbell is a Dene/Metis author and photographer from English River First Nation in Northern Saskatchewan. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at UBC and is currently starting her fourth year of PhD studies at the University of Saskatchewan, focusing on Indigenous Literature.
She is the owner and artist behind sweetmoon photography, a successful photography business that specializes in photographing Indigenous people. She has published poetry in Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, and photography in Urban Tribes: Native Americans in the City and Dreaming in Indian. Current creative projects include #KissingIndigenous, a photography series focusing on the act of intimacy within Indigenous couples. She is also the creator of tea&bannock, an online collective blog featuring the photographs and stories of Indigenous women photographers throughout Canada. Storytelling – be it with ink, voice or photographers – is the life for her.
Audio
Sunday, July 23
Winnipeg
UMFM 105.1
Tenille talks with UMFM's Jesse A. Thistle for At The Edge Of Canada: Indigenous Research.
Click the link to listen to the podcast!
http://archive.umfm.com/podcast_downloads/20170717-341.mp3
(MP3 file, 29 minutes)
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Three Signature Titles shortlisted for Manitoba Book Awards
Posted on: Monday, June 11, 2018
Signature Editions has thee titles shortlisted for the 2018 Manitoba Book Awards
We hope to see our Winnipeg peeps at the Manitoba Book Awards this Friday, June 15
to cheer on our 3 shortlisted titles:
Tenille K. Campbell's#IndianLovePoems up for the Mary Scorer Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher
Ted Landrum's Midway Radicals & Archi-Poems up for the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry
Jim Nason's Spirit of a Hundred Thousand Dead Animals up for the Manuela Dias Book Design Award
Awards will be handed out this Friday, June 15 at the Manitoba Book Awards Gala
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
at Robert B. Schultz Lecture Theatre
91 Ralph Campbell Rd.,
Winnipeg
Tickets available online through eventbrite.ca
Tenille K. Campbell a finalist for the Emerging Indigenous Voices prize
Posted on: Friday, May 25, 2018
A big congratulations to Tenille Campbell on her selection as a finalist for the inaugural Emerging Indigenous Voices prizes! And a hearty congratulations to all the deserving finalists.
Inaugural Emerging Indigenous Voices award finalists revealed
Posted on: Friday, May 18, 2018
The finalists for the inaugural Emerging Indigenous Voices prizes have been announced. In
its first year, $25,000 will be distributed to winners in seven categories, as selected by
jurors Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Gregory Scofield, Jean Sioui, and Richard Van Camp.
A gala event will take place on May 29 in Regina.
Most Significant Work of Prose in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer
• Carleigh Baker, Bad Endings (Anvil Press)
• Dawn Dumont, Glass Beads (Thistledown Press)
• Aviaq Johnston, Those Who Run in the Sky (Inhabit Media)
• Joanne Robertson, The Water Walker (Second Story Press)
Most Significant Work of Prose in French by an Emerging Indigenous Writer
• Naomie Fontaine, Manikanetish (Memoire d’Encrier)
• J. D. Kurtness, De Vengeance (L’Instant Meme)
Best Unpublished Poetic Piece in French
• Marie-Andrée Gill, “Uashteu”
Most Significant Work in an Alternative Format by an Emerging Indigenous Writer
• Keith Barker, This is How We Got Here (Playwrights Canada)
• Cliff Cardinal, Huff & Stitch (Playwrights Canada Press)
• Mich Cota, Musical Selections o Heather Igloliorte, Sakkijâjuk (Goose Lane Editions)
• Mika Lafond, Nipê Wânîn (Thistledown Press)
Most Significant Work of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer
• Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound is a World (Frontenac House)
• Tenille K. Campbell, #IndianLovePoems (Signature Editions)
• Joshua Whitehead, full-metal indigiqueer (Talon Books)
Unpublished Poetic Piece(s) by an Emerging Indigenous Writer
• David Agecoutay, “Poetic Selections”
• Brandi Bird “Two Poems”
• Francine Merasty “Poetry of a Northern Rez Girl”
• Smokii Sumac, “#haikuaday and other poems”
Unpublished Prose Piece by an Emerging Indigenous Writer
• Treena Chambers, “Hair Raizing”
• Elaine McArthur, “Queen Bee”
• Tom Nazbah, “The Hand Trembler”
• Amanda Peters, “Pejipug (Winter Arrives)”
–Quill & Quire May 18, 2018
Tenille K. Campbell takes home awards!
Posted on: Monday, April 30, 2018
Tenille K. Campbell takes home both the First Book Award and the Indigenous Peoples' Writing Award for #IndianLovePoems at the Saskatchewan Book Awards! Congratulations, Tenille!
Saskatchewan Book Awards winners The Saskatchewan Book Awards marked its 25th year this weekend.
Posted on: Sunday, April 29, 2018
The Saskatchewan Book Awards marked 25 years of excellence in
writing and publishing in this province, handing out this year’s annual
awards in 13 categories on the weekend.
Debut author Tenille Campbell, poet Beth Goobie, and previous winning author Trevor
Herriot each took home two awards at the ceremony, which attracted some 300 book
lovers to the Conexus Arts Centre in Regina.
–Regina Leader-Post April 30, 2018
#IndianLovePoems is #65 on The Great Canadian Reading List
Posted on: Saturday, July 22, 2017
#IndianLovePoems is #65 on CBC's list of The Great Canadian reading list: 150 books to read for Canada 150.
Read the full list at: http://www.cbc.ca/books/the-great-canadian-reading-list-150-books-to-read-for-canada-150-1.4212815
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