Tara Gereaux

News

Recipient of the 2022 Colleen Bailey Memorial Endowment Award from the Saskatchewan Foundation for Arts.

Article on working with sensitivity readers, “Writing Beyond Our Own Experiences,” published in Write magazine in fall 2022.

Saltus was shortlisted for the 2022 ReLit Novel Award, and for three 2022 Saskatchewan Book Awards (Fiction Award, City of Regina Award, and Book of the Year Award).

Winner of the 2019 City of Regina Writing Award.

Laureate of a REVEAL - Indigenous Art Award from The Hnatyshyn Foundation in 2017.

Interview on CFCR 90.5FM's Radio Book Club. Listen to the podcast.

Winner of the 2016 City of Regina Writing Award.

An article by Tara on Size of Fist's cover design. (Regina Leader-Post)

Interview on CJTR's Words on Air. Listen to the podcast.

Reviews

Saltus

“… is a triumph. The prose is smooth, the dialogue crisp, and the tension so thick you won’t want to put this book down until the very last page… I have rarely been so moved by a piece of fiction.” - Prairie Flower Reads (full review)

“… this was one of my favourite reads of the month and probably the year. Saltus by Tara Gereaux is written with such thorough and limitless compassion.” - carlyisreading (full review)

Size of a Fist

"... a tense and jagged story about how compromised a young woman's escape from her dead-end hometown is made by troubled peers and bad choices. This is a fast-paced and tense read. I didn't stop once."                                                                                                    - Regina Leader-Post and Saskatoon's StarPhoenix (full review)

" In a very short space, Gereaux has managed to create a complex and nuanced character in Addy... [and she] excels at creating character through dialogue."                                                                                        - CM Magazine (full review)

"... this is no Disney story, but Gereaux does shed light on the underbelly of small-town life that some might argue is the norm, rather than the exception. There’s value in holding up that mirror: it presents a truth... there’s no sense of authorial judgement here."                           - writer and reviewer Shelley Leedhal (full review)