Write Out Loud with Author Matthew Anderson @ Swift Current Museum

Doors at 630pm
Musician 7pm
Authur Matthew Anderson will Follow

$8 Admissions
Opening Act is Hugh Henry

Matthew Anderson, born in Shaunavon, raised in Swift Current and Regina, now living in Nova Scotia, returns to Swift Current to present his recently published The Good Walk: Creating New Paths on Traditional Prairie Trails (University of Regina Press, 2024). The Good Walk is grounded in walks undertaken in southwest Saskatchewan, but is infused with reflections on family/settler history and Indigenous perspectives of land.

Matthew is an ordained Lutheran minister, has a PhD from McGill, taught for over 20 years at Concordia University, and currently teaches at St Francis Xavier University. The titles of Matthew’s books say a lot about his interests: Prophets of Love: The Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul (McGill-Queens University Press, 2023); Our Home and Treaty Land (with Dr. Ray Aldred, WoodLake Friesen Press, 2024); Pairings: The Bible and Booze (Novalis, 2021).

He writes journal and textbook articles and has a podcast called “Pilgrimage Stories from Up and Down the Staircase.” He’s written, shot, and produced two full-length documentaries about pilgrimage. These can be found on his websites, SomethingGrand.ca and UnsettledWords.com.

Write Out Loud appreciates sponsorship by the Canada Council through The Writers’ Union of Canada, Stark & Marsh, and Anderson & Co.