1. Brenda Schmidt
     Early life and education  

2. Career
     Writing Style  

3. Work
     Major Exhibitions    Awards and Nominations  

4. References

Brenda Schmidt

Brenda Schmidt is a writer, painter, and naturalist^[1]. Schmidt is currently living and working in Creighton, Saskatchewan. Schmidt is a full time artist, having left her nursing career in 1998 to concentrate on her art with diligence and consistency.

Early life and education

During her childhood, Schmidt was exposed to writing and painting. As a teen she met Edgar Lytle, a painter who had done a portrait of Schmidt’s grandfather while in Dinsmore. At Lytle’s house, Schmidt saw many portraits and became fascinated with the idea of creating art. During her time living on a farm in the Birsay area, Schmidt began to write for the Young Co-operator’s Page of the Western Producer while she was attending high school. Schmidt’s parents supported her work by providing paper, paints, envelopes, and stamps.^[2][3]

Career

The first work Schmidt produced was a poetry book, A Haunting Sun^[4], published by Saskatoon’s Thistledown Press in 2001. She is the author of five books of poetry and a book of essays. Her work has been published, performed, displayed and broadcasted across Canada and was part of a poetry installation at the University of Exeter^[5], in the United Kingdom.

Schmidt was the Associate Poetry Editor for Grain, a Canadian literary magazine, featuring poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, and artwork, during the fall of 2015. She was also a featured writer at the 2011 Talking Fresh conference at Luther College at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan. In addition, she was a faculty member at the Fernie Writers Conference between 2007 and 2008, in British Columbia. Schmidt was a featured writer at the Writers West at Okanagan College in 2006, and a Poetry Workshop Leader, both located in British Columbia. Brenda Schmidt was a reviewer of fiction, poetry and nonfiction for Quill & Quire, a Manuscript Evaluator for the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild, a juror for provincial and national arts organizations, and she has served on the board of directors for the [https://www.skwriter.com/ Saskatchewan Writers' Guild] and for Sage Hill Writing. ^[1]

Writing Style

Work

Major Exhibitions

Brenda Schmidt paintings have leaned towards expressive and emotionally driven content, in addition, some of her artworks show landscape. Schmidt had a solo exhibitions called Metamorphosis: The Effects of Isolation, a series of watercolors, at Leaf Rapids, Manitoba, Regina, and Yorkton, in 1997-98.^[3]

Awards and Nominations

In 1989, Schmidt was the winner of the Manitoba Organization of Nurses Association Writing Competition. As well as, winner of the Alfred G. Bailey Prize for poetry in 2003 and a finalist for the CBC Literary Award for poetry a number of times, and shortlisted for the 2013 Lieutenant Governor's Arts Award for a Saskatchewan Artist. In 2004, Schmidt was the winner of Saskatchewan’s CBC Poetry Face-off. In that same year, she won the Harpweaver Prize, which is the Canadian Authors’ Association Prize for Poetry.^[1] Brenda was a finalist for the 2019 Saskatchewan Book Award for poetry and nonfiction^[6]

Her work is included in The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English: Tenth Anniversary Edition (Tightrope Books, 2017). She founded the Ore Samples Writers Series in 2016 and in 2017, she became the seventh Saskatchewan Poet Laureate.^[1]

References

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• Nietzschean
• Nietzschean affirmation
• Nietzsche and Kierkegaard comparisons
• Nietzscheans
• Nietzsche Archiv
• Nietzsche Archive
• Nietzsche contra Wagner
• Nietzsche Contra Wagner
• Nietzsche is dead
• Nietzscheism
• Nietzsche's social and political views
• Nieu-Bethesda
• Nieul-le-Virouil
• Nieul-le-Virouil, France
• Nieumeghen
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• Nieuport-Delage NiD 52