Connie Gault (photo courtesy Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild)

Award-winning playwright and author Connie Gault has been named the winner of the 2025 Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award.

The $10,000 annual prize, administered by the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, honours a Saskatchewan writer with a substantial body of literary work who has had a significant impact on writing in the province.

In announcing the award, the guild said the jury “was impressed with the breadth and scope of Gault’s career, her ability to move with equal strength from genre to genre, and with her commitment to the vocation of writing.”

Born in Central Butte, Saskatchewan, Gault published her first short story in Grain magazine in 1981, and has published four plays, three novels, and two short-story collections. Her second novel, A Beauty, won the Saskatchewan Book of the Year award in 2016 and was longlisted for the 2015 Giller Prize.

Gault has also been involved with the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild’s mentorship program, and taught and edited at Saskatchewan’s Sage Hill Writing centre and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

The winner of this year’s award was announced on Sept. 25 by Cheryl Kloppenburg.