Miguel A. Fenrich
Challenging the World with Words
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Miguel Fenrich (he/him) is an award-winning Sudanese-Canadian journalist, author, and multidisciplinary storyteller living on Treaty 6 Territory west of Saskatoon. As a professional literary artist, his work often explores culture, heritage, or the Saskatchewan prairies through an intersectional and anti-racist lens. His professional storytelling and communications experience includes being the former Owner & Publisher of Supernova Press, the former Staff Reporter and Editor of the Battlefords Regional News-Optimist, and the author of novels Blue: A Novel and What Lies in the Valley.
Passionate about community service, Fenrich has served on several Boards of Directors for provincial and community non-profits, and is well-versed in policy governance, strategic planning, and long-term strategic decision-making. His experience on non-profit boards includes Saskbooks, Concern for Youth, the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, Theatre Saskatchewan, and the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild Foundation.
He currently serves as President of the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild and is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal.
Novels
In the isolation of the Foxtail Valley sits the ancestral home of the McMillian family.
Dust floats in the hallways, and wind cannot sway it. The windows twinkle on cloudy days, the foundation doesn’t crack, and nothing can seemingly force the house to follow the laws of nature. Whispers say a tall shadowy man stands in the attic, and only a high-pitched ringing can be heard when he speaks.
Klara’s grandparents burned alive on Christmas eve. Her father vanished with their fortune and his mistress. A shadowed, child-stealing creature, the Watcher, stole Klara’s youngest brother.
Klara’s family, plagued by misfortune and horror, flee to Canada, where their house in the Foxtail Valley waits for them. Unbeknownst to them, unseen forces lying in the valley prepare for their arrival.
Available NOW through: Amazon and the Saskatchewan public library system.
Follow Wolfe, one of the millions of blue-eyed workers toiling beneath the cruel, overbearing thumb of a brown-eyed supremacy organization that has convinced a future society that blue-eyed people are lazy, weak, and inferior to the brown-eyed majority.
When Wolfe hears rumours of a mounting plot to overthrow a luxurious eastern plantation that thrives off enslaved, blue-eyed labour, Wolfe must decide if the threat of death is worse than slavery to his brown-eyed masters. Thrust into possible rebellion and a vast journey across the North American continent, will Wolfe, posed against monstrous opposition, change the world?
Available NOW through: Amazon and the Saskatchewan library system.
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Hi, I’m Miguel!
The death of Colten Boushie in rural Saskatchewan and the murder of George Floyd sent me searching for justice. As I mentioned above, my work often explores culture, heritage, and the Saskatchewan prairies through an intersectional and anti-racist lens.
As such, my work — often speculative fiction — forces readers take pause, question, wonder, about topics white supremacy, systemic racism, LGBTQ2S rights, feminism, capitalism, mental health, feminism, and humanity’s place in the world.
You can also work with me!
I’m available for webinars, conferences, workshops, panels and more focused on topics such as anti-racism, writing, speculative fiction, publishing, or non-profits in Saskatchewan. If you’re a an emerging writing looking to get engaged in writing in Saskatchewan, I also might be a perfect mentor. You can reach me at miguelfenrich@gmail.com!
To learn more about what I’m getting up to, check out some recent press coverage below:
Artists to be recognized at SK Arts Gala | Battlefords Regional News-Optimist
North Battleford author sharing his passion during Saskatchewna Book Week | BattlefordsNow
Battlefords author hosting first-of-its-kind writing workshop | Beach Radio 93.3
Miguel Fenrich recognized in Sask. Legislature | SaskToday.ca
Sask. Author, Miguel A. Fenrich, launching 2nd novel | KindersleySocial.ca
Recent Blog Posts
Miguel Fenrich: Challening Literary Boundaries | SK Arts
I've always believed that the arts are a powerful force — a way to bridge humanity's shared experiences, understand diverse perspectives, and further develop our understand of how the rest of the world works. My journey as a storyteller and (former) publisher of...
Dreaming of Summer: a short story
The frostbitten heifer with a pink peeling nose is hauled up the steps of the silver-haired farmer's steps, clunk, clunk, clunk. The two bedroom farm house is a mirage of gold in the screaming whorl of snow eviscerating the formerly flat and stubbled fields...
The Opposite of Drought: a poem
Penultimate in her revelation, life oozes from the apex of the woman lying in the truck bed beneath stars. Red-hot, startled, she explores the bulging buds, heavy with sap, virginal and exposed, a mirror of mother Gaia. She runs her fingers along the...
News & Events
Miguel Fenrich: Challening Literary Boundaries | SK Arts
I've always believed that the arts are a powerful force — a way to bridge humanity's shared experiences, understand diverse perspectives, and further develop our understand of how the rest of the world works. My journey as a storyteller and (former) publisher of...
Free Workshop at Wonder of Words Literary Festival
Fill out this Google Form to RSVP for the FREE workshop that I am presenting at the Wonder of Words Literary Festival in Manitou Beach. The festival runs from August 3-6, 2023 and admission is free. My workshop titled, "A to Z: From Concept to Publicatoin: Exploring...
Book Launch – The Homesteaders
For Immediate Release: Sept. 20th, 2022 SUPERNOVA PRESS BOOK LAUNCH - Miguel A. Fenrich's 2nd novel is set to release in January on Friday the 13th, 2023. The release will be celbrated with a free book launch at the North Battleford Public Library at 5 pm, with...
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