2025 Alberta Literary Awards – Now Open for Submissions!
The Writers’ Guild of Alberta (WGA) is preparing to celebrate another successful year with the 2025 Alberta Literary Awards. Writers from across Alberta and their publishers are invited to check out and submit to this year’s award categories. The deadline for submissions to the Alberta Literary Awards was December 2, 2024 but has been extended to December 9th, 2024. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE […]
CONTROVERSY @ NOON SERIES
Controversy @ Noon Series Is there a pressing literary topic you want to hear more about? How about the banning of books? Ageism in the publishing industry? The ever-looming presence of AI? In an effort to reframe collaboration efforts with our membership and offer programming based on local writers’ immediate needs, the WGA is excited […]
Canada Post Strike Disruptions
We are aware of the announced national strike by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). We understand this may impact our Awards intake process, and we want to assure you that we are closely monitoring the situation. FIND OUR LATEST UPDATE HERE Please note the following: We appreciate your understanding and patience during this […]
2025 ALBERTA LITERARY AWARDS: CALL FOR JURORS
Deadline: October 1, 2024 The Writers’ Guild of Alberta is calling all readers and writers to join our awards juries this season. This is an opportunity to be “in the room” when the 2025 finalists and winners are chosen. The awards season is an important time on the literary calendar. In 2025, the WGA will […]
2025 Mentorship Program – Call for Applications
2025 Mentorship Program – Call for Applications The Mentorship Program is an initiative of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta designed to help promising emerging writers make the transition to the next stage of their careers. The program will take place from January through April 2025. We will accept up to seven apprentices to work with […]
WGA Observing National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Monday, September 30th, 2024
Please note that the WGA will be observing National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Monday, September 30th as we commemorate and honour residential school survivors and the children who were never returned home, as well as their families and communities. Our office will be closed and staff will not be responding to emails. The […]
Tell Us About Your 2024 Books
We would love to know what our members are publishing in 2024! If you have a book slated for publication in 2024 and would like to tell us about it, please do so via the form below. All books by WGA members that are commercially available in 2024 are welcome, including self-published and ebook or […]
WGA HOLIDAY OFFICE CLOSURE
WGA HOLIDAY OFFICE CLOSURE Dates: December 18, 2024 – January 3, 2025 The WGA Office will be closed from December 18th -January 3rd, returning on January 6th. If you have any questions during the closure, please feel free to email WGA staff and we will get back to you once we get back in the […]
WGA 2023/24 Annual Report Available Online!
The WGA Annual General Meeting will be taking place June 9, online and in-person during our 2024 WGA Conference: No Place Like Home Sunday, June 9, 2023 | 10:45 am – 12:15 pmOnline via Zoom / Located in the Valley Ballroom, 2nd Floor The AGM is free and open to all WGA members in good […]
Office Closed Monday, November 11, 2024
Please note that the WGA office will be closed on Monday, November 11th, 2024 for Remembrance Day. The Percy Page Centre will be closed, so there will be no access to drop off books for the Awards intake. We will be back in the office November 12th, 2024.