Name: Wendy Roy Book Launch
Start: 2026-01-30T19:00:00-06:00
Location: 3130-8th Street East, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Saskatchewan S7H 0W2

Join Wendy Roy and a panel of contributors for the Saskatoon launch of her book ReVisions: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada (University of Toronto Press).
This event will be held in the Travel Alcove and as a simultaneous YouTube livestream.
Editor Wendy Roy is Bateman Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. Her current research is on dystopian and apocalyptic literature in Canada. She is the author of The Next Instalment: Serials, Sequels, and Adaptations of Nellie L. McClung, L.M. Montgomery, and Mazo de la Roche (2019) and Maps of Difference: Canada, Women, and Travel (2005), and she co-edited Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual (2012). Panelists are members of the USask English department and others who contributed to the collection: University lecturer Jessica McDonald; sessional lecturer and PhD graduate Kai McKenzie; PhD candidates Mabiana Camargo, Jasmine Redford, and Gwen Rose; independent scholar and former graduate student MacKenzie Read; and Saskatoon artist Iris Hauser, whose painting illustrates the cover of the collection.
ReVisions: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada explores dystopian and apocalyptic writing in Canada. Bringing together critical and creative works by eighteen authors, the collection re-envisions Canadian cultures and societies and asks important questions about representations of our world. The book examines the past and present through a futuristic lens, asking readers to revise their understandings of past events, including Canada’s history of colonization. The varied contributions demonstrate that speculative writing can help us to see what is happening in the world around us and at the same time to re-envision it, to reconsider the consequences of our actions, and to imagine revised and perhaps better futures.