Saturday, August 17, 1:00 pm, Rotary Park Lawn Bowls, 705 – 1 St. NE, Calgary; Entry fee: $10 - $50 ($180 for a team of 4) The Amber Webb-Bowerman Memorial Foundation hosts the annual Sugar Bowl Lawn Bowling Tournament and Fundraiser in support of emerging writers. Each year, teams from the magazine industry and media join in the fun for a great journalistic cause. Money raised at the Sugar Bowl goes toward great initiatives: the WordsWorth Creative Writing Residency for youth, hosted by the… Read More
Sunday, August 11 10 AM – Fireside Room Writers’ Guild of Alberta Q&AFeaturing Members of the Writers Guild of Alberta Join writers Susan Calder, Carol Parchewsky, Lori Hahnel, and Writers’ Guild of Alberta staff members Samantha Warwick and Carol Holmes for questions about the WGA, writing, or the industry in general. Coffee and treats will be served. This is a public event that will take place as part of the 2019 When Words Collide Festival. More info available at: https://www.wh… Read More
Week 1 (ages 11 - 14): July 14 – 19, 2019 - Registration is now closed for Week 1Week 2 (ages 15 - 19):July 21 – 26, 2019, $550Week 3 (ages 14 - 19): July 28 – August 2, 2019, $550 - space is limited!Two-Week Option (ages 14 - 19):July 21 – August 2, 2019, $1035 - space is limited!
T-shirt: $20Anthology: $10 (Please note if you are signing up for more than one week, you will need to purchase two anthologies to receive each week.)
Please note: Space is limited for Week 3 and for the two-week o… Read More
We are thrilled to partner with Edmonton Public Library and Capital City Press for a series of upcoming Monday Write Nights.
Drop-in and join us Monday nights at a different EPL branch.
Join us this summer as we continue our free drop-in writing nights. Meet and chat with other writers, learn about WGA and EPL programs, or just get some work done. Write Nights are here to provide support and a space to write. Our summer schedule is: July 8 – Highlands - with Jason Norman
July 22 – Woodcrof… Read More
2018 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize Winner Announced
Congratulations to Marcello Di Cintio, winner of the 2018 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize! The City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize Recognizes literary achievement by a Calgary author for an outstanding book of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, children's literature or drama published in the preceding year. Marcello Di Cintio, Goose Lane Editions: Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense In 1994, The City of Calgary established the Calgary Awards to c… Read More
Finalists for the 2019 High Plains Book Awards have been announced in 12 categories. Congratulations to the following Alberta authors! Beth Towe – Bert Riggall’s Greater Waterton – Fifth House Publishers - (for Art & Photography)Trina Moyles - Women Who Dig: Farming, Feminism and the Fight to Feed the World – (for First Book)Dallas Hunt - AwÃsis and the World-Famous Bannock - (for Indigenous Writer) And to Saskatchewan authors: Marion Mutala – My Buddy, Dio – Children’s BookRan… Read More
Legends of Note
We are thrilled to announce the instructors for Wordsworth 2019.
More names and course descriptions will be added as they are confirmed!
WordsWorth 2019 Instructors WordsWorth 2019 Courses WordsWorth 2019 Creative Team… Read More
Prairie Indigenous E-Book and IBBY Indigenous Picture Book Collections
Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection Launched in January 2019, this significant addition to the Alberta eBooks repository brings together over 200 titles from publishers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The first of its kind in Canada, the Prairie Indigenous collection increases access to stories by Indigenous authors, and writings about Indigenous culture. Along with the 1,500 other titles in the Alberta eBooks Collection (launched in 2017), these new additions are available for… Read More
The Writers' Guild of Alberta is a provincial arts service organization that represents both professional and emerging writers in Alberta. We envision an Alberta where past, present, and future contributions of writers are supported, acknowledged, and valued.
Our mission is to inspire, connect, support, encourage and promote writers and writing, to safeguard the freedom to write and to read, and to advocate for the well-being of writers.
