Please join us for the 2017 Alberta Literary Awards Gala on Saturday, June 10, 2017! Time: Cocktails and mingling at 6:30 pm, Buffet dinner at 7:15 pm Place: Maple Leaf Room, Lister Centre, University of Alberta (11613 – 87 Avenue) Dress Code: semiformal/festive attire Tickets are $75 each and can be purchased here. Our […]
Those who attended the Alberta Literary Awards Gala this past June in Calgary, had a chance to watch our video of this year’s shortlisted authors. For anyone who missed the Gala, or wishes to see the video again, we now have a copy of the video available to view online! Our thanks to this year’s WGA summer […]
The Writers’ Guild of Alberta is pleased to reveal the winners of the 2016 Alberta Literary Awards. More than 120 attended the 2016 Alberta Literary Awards Wine and Cheese Gala, part of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s 2016 Calgary Conference, Creativity and Happiness. This celebration marked the 34th anniversary of the Alberta Literary Awards and brought together writers […]
Supported by Aritha van Herk The WGA Golden Pen Award is presented to acknowledge the lifetime achievements of an outstanding Alberta writer. Past recipients have been Alice Major, George Melnyk, Fred Stenson, Aritha van Herk, Robert Kroetsch, Merna Summers, Myrna Kostash, Grant MacEwan, W.O. Mitchell, Rudy Wiebe and Betty Jane Hegerat. This year’s recipient is Greg Hollingshead. Greg Hollingshead has published […]
Meet author, professor and former WGA President Julie ‘No Slouch’ Sedivy: Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Rochester! Faculty at Brown University for twelve years! Has published more than thirty scientific articles on language and the mind, and blogs regularly for Nautilus, Psychology Today, Language Log, and Discover magazine! You may wish to read Julie’s […]
Calgary-based Naomi K. Lewis is an accomplished author of fiction (both long and short), creative nonfiction, and has ghostwritten a bestselling memoir. We are thrilled that she will instruct Shaping the Story, a fiction intensive at our annual conference this Saturday. In keeping with our current blog theme of introducing you to the personal (and […]
Happy Friday, Literary Intrepids! Have you heard award-winning Greg Hollingshead is the 2016 recipient of the WGA Golden Pen Award? Hurray to Greg and special pens! The Golden Pen Award acknowledges lifetime achievements of outstanding writers who’ve spent a significant portion of their writing life in Alberta and produced a distinguished body of work over a longstanding […]
Most of us know that Calgary author Will Ferguson won the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2012 for his novel 419. Some of us had the pleasure of watching him accept the $50K prize wearing a kilt and green socks on National TV. Those of us ensconced at the Rhino pub for the Giller Bash (YYC) […]
The following photographs were taken by David during the Creative Nonfiction Collective Annual Conference. (Photos reproduced with permission from David Whyte.)
The WGA would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Friends of Frances, who are supporting the 2016 Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award in memory of long-standing WGA member, Frances Hern. Frances passed away last September at the age of 64. She leaves behind a literary legacy that spans nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, including Engraved: Canadian Stories of World […]
