Talk:Sharron Proulx-Turner

Peer view for Sharon Proulx-Turner

This page has good bones so far, and I appreciate the plain language! I think that this works really well for the Wikipedia requirements of being accessible to everyone. I think it is good, but you need to add some more information so I can do a more effective critique. The headings seem to be effective, and I think that the biography information you have so far is good. Can you add more about her works and life here? If you are planning to get more into it later (which I think that you are doing) perhaps go back and add some of the information at the top that you find out later on, so that the audience has a bit of a tease in whats to come. This is a helpful thing for people who just skim articles.

Changing the heading "list of books" to "list of works" may be more effective--you could include any online-only work you may have found/ newspapers or something like that. Update: like what you added, but be sure to make them more uniform--perhaps add bullet points and list her work like that (in a different heading also perhaps?) to make it look prettier.

• • You need to change the wording in your first paragraph. You say "Proulx-Turner has also been published in several anthologies and literary journals throughout her career with her final publication being released after her untimely passing in December 2017 by Kege- donce Press, in honour of her." But she passed away in 2016. The end of the sentence is referring to her last book being published, but how you've written makes it sound like she died in 2017. I would change it to "Proulx-Turner has also been published in several anthologies and literary journals throughout her career before her untimely death in 2016. In 2017, her final publication was released posthumously in 2017 by Kege-Donce Press, in honour of her." You could possibly include information about her death as a heading (or here too) and write about the outpouring of writing about her work after her death. When I googled her, most of the immediate results were writers paying tribute to her and her work, so I think you could find something interesting there.

Sampantha (talk) 17:56, 22 March 2019 (UTC)SamSampantha (talk) 17:56, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Peer Review

The headings of this page are helpful markers for key aspects of Proulx-Turner's life and career. I would consider changing the heading "List of Books" to "Works" or "Bibliography," then perhaps you could also add a section for Literary Reception/Criticism to provide information about what has been written about her work, in both the mainstream media and scholarly journals. Adding some information about the secondary sources which have written about her work would be useful for readers looking at her page so they can see the notability of her work. The list of her works (primary sources) you've added is comprehensive, which is great.

I also appreciate the inclusion of headings for her personal life, such as "Early Life" and "Family Life," although you might be able to collapse these into one section. The section could potentially be called "Personal Life" or something to that effect, then have subheadings for her early life, her children, etc. if that information is available.

As well, Kegedonce Press has its own Wikipedia page, so you could add a a hyperlink to its page when mentioning it in her biography. After your mention of her death, you could potentially add a sentence about the statement released by Frontenac House following her passing. Tichristo (talk) 17:57, 22 March 2019 (UTC)Tia

Possible changes to Sharron Proulx-Turner

Hi group! Your page has been flagged for deletion, so I thought I'd give you some suggestions for updating it. I have made some small changes, and advocated for you on the talk page, but as the experts on this topic, it would be great for you to engage.

Some egregious problems: you have no evidence for her shortlisted awards, and you have misattributed her as the founding editor of a press.

Here's how I might edit the additional info;

Writing Her first publication Where the Rivers Join: A Personal Account of Healing from Ritual Abuse, was published under the pseudonym Becklane to protect her identity as her life was still endangered.[1] Her writing covers a variety of genres: poetry, memoir, and mixed-genre historical fiction. She is widely anthologized, appearing in Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood[2], Crisp Blue Edges: Indigenous Creative Non-Fiction[3], My Home as I Remember[4], and An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English[5]. After she was diagnosed with cancer, the Indigenous Studies Literary Studies Association hosted a roundtable on her works: "Decolonial Solidarities and the Work of Sharron Proulx-Turner" which brought together writers to reflect on her influence as an activist, editor, and mentor.[6] After her death in 2016, the themes in her writing were the focus on a symposium held in her honour[7]. Her final publication was released posthumously by Kegedonce Press. Proulx-Turner acted as a mentor to writers in the Canadian literature community. particularly for emerging Indigenous writers[8], and advocated on behalf of the field of Indigenous literature and its writers[9]. She created opportunities for Two-Spirit and gender non-conforming people in ceremony and in writing communities[10].

Themes

Her writing weaves together historical and contemporary stories of Two-Spirit women[11] Her memoir challenges the ideal of a whole, true, female self when healing from childhood experiences of abuse and instead produces discomfort through fragmentation, dialogue, and juxtaposition[12].

A symposium on her work was focused around mixedness and mixing, Métis storytelling, and autobiographical and biotextual aspects of her writing[13].

References Proulx-Turner, Sharron; Maracle, Lee (2015). "Ice Tsunami: A Process of Writing Where the Rivers Join". Auto/Biography Studies. 30 (2 Broken Dialogues): 217–231. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2015.1083278 Check |doi= value (help). Cowan, Shannon, ed. (2008). Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-3377-6. Marsden, Rasunah, ed. (2000). Crisp Blue Edges: Indigenous Creative Non-Fiction. Pentiction, BC: Theytus Books. ISBN 0919441920. Maracle, Lee, ed. (2000). My Home as I Remember. Toronto: Dundurn. ISBN 1-55488-236-2. Moses, Daniel David, ed. (2013). An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195443530. "2nd Annual Gathering 2016". Indigenous Literary Studies Association. Retrieved 2019-04-16. Jacobsen, Mikka (2018-11-02). "Creole Métisse of French Canada, Me: A Symposium in Honour of Sharron Proulx-Turner". The Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing. Retrieved 2019-04-16. "Supporting Aboriginal writing". Folio. March 29, 2012. Justice, Daniel Heath (2018). Why Indigenous Literatures Matter. Wilfred Laurier University Press. ISBN 9781771121774. "2nd Annual Gathering 2016". Indigenous Literary Studies Association. Retrieved 2019-04-16. Tatonetti, Lisa,. The queerness of Native American literature. Minneapolis. ISBN 9780816692781. OCLC 877365193. Cowan, T.L. (2005). ""'my body pinned down'": Gender Construction, Disruptive Form, and the Language of Sexual Violence in Elly Danica's Don't: A Woman's Word and Beckylane's Where the Rivers Join". Tessera. 37-38: 69–78. doi:10.25071/1923-9408.25575. Jacobsen, Mikka (2018-11-02). "Creole Métisse of French Canada, Me: A Symposium in Honour of Sharron Proulx-Turner". The Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing. Retrieved 2019-04-16.