WGA Holiday Hours
The WGA will be closed for the holidays from December 24 to January 3. Regular office hours will resume on Monday, January 4, 2021. We wish you the best over the holidays and a wonderful 2021!
WGA Holiday Hours
The WGA will be closed for the holidays from December 24 to January 3. Regular office hours will resume on Monday, January 4, 2021. We wish you the best over the holidays and a wonderful 2021!
WGA Webinar: It’s About Time! 10 E-Z steps to writing that novel in 2021*, with Susie Moloney
*or memoir, true crime, non-fiction…* Webinar (recorded; this webinar originally tok place on Saturday, January 9, 2021)Members: $25Non-members: $35Students: $10 Writing a book is never easy, but veteran, award-winning fiction writer, Susie Moloney, author of Bastion Falls, A Dry Spell, The Dwelling, The Thirteen, and Things Withered, stories, has some easy to handle steps to excite and […]
The Gardener and the Architect: Working from impulse to structure in playwriting with Meg Braem
Two-part workshop:January 13 & 20 @ 7pmMembers $55Non-members $75*Attendance is capped. Only 10 spots available* REGISTRATION IS CURRENTLY FULL. If you would like to put your name on the waiting list in case a spot open, please email us at [email protected] Writers are often asked, “are you a gardener or an architect?” The gardener being […]
WGA Game Week
What’s better than a good old fashioned game night? Three game nights! We have all been working hard writing our novels and stories in the early morning or late night hours. We’ve been getting kids ready for virtual school while virtual grocery shopping for very real antacids, so we deserve some time to just have […]
WGA Webinar: Plotting Conspiracy- How to Write Your Own Conspiracy Novel
Plotting Conspiracy – Webinar Historian Hugh A. Gordon Ph.D. will teach you the elements of writing your own conspiracy novel. Saturday December 5th, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. Cost: $25 for members, $35 for non-members, and $10 for students. Online. Registration is now closed. If you are registered for this event, the link to the […]
Reimagining Alberta’s Literary Community – A Survey by Writers’ Guild of Alberta
The WGA is releasing a survey that will help us look into the future as programs and services for writers will increasingly be delivered online, and as the livelihoods of writers are rapidly evolving in the midst of a great upheaval across all sectors. As such, this survey is for anyone that is currently or […]
The 2020 (Virtual) Giller Light Bash in Support of Frontier College Literacy Programs
THE EVENT IS FREE, ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED Monday, November 9, 2020 at 6:30 MDT (30 minutes before the live broadcast of the Scotiabank Giller Prize Awards begins) REGISTER HERE The Writers’ Guild of Alberta, Freehand Books and Shelf Life Books are long standing promoters of the literacy education that Frontier College delivers across the province to inner city schools, public housing sites, community […]
Sharon Bala Webinar: Writing Who You Don’t Know
Saturday, October 1710:00am-11:00am $25 for WGA Members, $35 for non-members,Students $10Registration is now closed. If you registered for this event, the webinar link should be contained in your receipt email. How do we write from outside our experience? Specifically: how do we create characters whose skin colour, ethnicity, sexuality, and/or gender are not our own? […]
WGA 2020 Fall Kick-Off Video Available
If you were unable to join us for the 2020 Fall Kick-Off event, the video is now available! Every September the WGA hosts an event intended to help writers organize their literary agendas for the rest of the year. There are festivals, workshops, seminars, webinars, author talks, readings and book launches happening across the province—and because […]