Anne Szumigalski was a mentor to numerous prairie poets and much loved in the literary community, especially in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. She was a founder of the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild and of the literary magazine Grain. Her achievements inspired (and she personally aided) the founders of the Manitoba Writers' Guild and the publication that became Prairie Fire. The lecture is delivered every year at the LCP’s Annual General Meeting and is subsequently published in Prairie Fire. Writer and editor Mark Abley, who was deeply influenced by Anne, and eventually became her literary executor, delivers the 2012 memorial lecture, which will be followed by a panel discussion on aspects of Szumigalski's work with Mark Abley, Mari-Lou Rowley & Catherine Hunter.