The Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s 2018 Banff Retreat will be open to more participants, and we will be hiring two Writers in Residence for the duration of the retreat. The retreat takes place February 2 – 11, 2018, at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The Writers in Residence will provide individual manuscript consultations for […]
The Almanac, 10351 Whyte Avenue Thursday, September 7 Gather at 7:00 pm, program at 7:30 pm Free for WGA members, $5.00 for non-members Join us at our annual Fall Kick-off! Meet old friends and make some new ones while we talk about the upcoming literary season in Edmonton. The WGA will be joined by representatives […]
Sutina Chou traveled across Canada to collect ways that Canadian identity has impacted Canadian literature, and vice versa. Through interviews with authors, she hoped to contribute more first-hand data to the existing academic literature surrounding the link between literature and identity in a Canadian context. Discover what WGA members had to say in August 2016. […]
WordsWorth is a week-long sleepover creative writing residency for young writers who believe in the power of words. Writers will be completely immersed in the creative and diverse world of writing. Guided by established and respected artist-instructors, writers will experience writing through fiction, poetry, spoken word, music, drama, film making, monologue and nonfiction. But […]
