eSKapade

David Baudemont at Blind Date, a public reading event.

In Saskatchewan I discovered the book collection eSKapade (SK for Saskatchewan). It is the initiative of a publishing house in Regina: Les Éditions de la nouvelle plume. Even if it is in french and not everyone can read it, I think that the concept is very interesting and worth learning about.
La nouvelle plume is the only french publishing house west of Winnipeg. Their mandate is to publish books (novel, children literature, poetry, non-fiction...) written by writers based in Western Canada and/or about the West.
eSKapade is a very unique collection. Each novel is a collaboration between a professional writer and a school. The writer spends time with a class in elementary school or high school to create a setting, characters and a plot line. After this process is completed, the writer writes the novel.
David Baudemont and Martine Noël-Maw are the main names coming up in that collection. They are writers based respectively in Saskatoon and Regina. They have worked with fransaskois schools and with french immersion schools in the province.

To learn more about La nouvelle plume: http://plume.avoslivres.ca/