Tuesday, April 3 7:00—9:00, Shelf Life Books @ 1302 4 St SW, Calgary. WGA members Free | Public $5 donation to the WGA Please RSVP by Facebook We invite you to join us for this special opportunity to hear from two of Canada’s most fascinating and powerful authors. Denise Chong is this year’s Writer-in-Residence at the University of […]
BORDERLINES WRITERS CIRCLE READINGS Thursday, March 15, 2018 7:00 pm Whitemud Crossing Library (Whitemud Crossing Shopping Centre, 4211 – 106 Street) FREE The WGA and Edmonton Public Library present an evening of new work from six multicultural, multilingual writers in celebration of the completion of the 2017 Borderlines Writers Circle program. Join Mila Philipzig, Leilei Chen, […]
Monday, February 26th | Doors Open at 5:00pm |7:00—9:00pm Main Event Memorial Park Library Second Floor Performance Space (Wordfest Engagement Lab) 1221 2 St SW, Calgary, AB Celebrating Rebel Readers, Writers and Freedom to Read Week Presented by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, Calgary Public Library and Wordfest Books can be dangerous objects. Under their influence, people start to wonder, dream and […]
BLAST FROM THE PAST! Date: Thursday, March 1, 2018 Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm Place: Almanac on Whyte (10351 Whyte Avenue) Our monthly event for March is an open mic with a twist. Mike Gravel will host “Blast from the Past” in which eight writers share five minutes of their earliest writing. That writing might be laughable now, but […]
January 31, 2018 Devaney’s Pub 11113 87 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6G 7 to 10pm Join Edmonton writers for an evening of socializing, networking and community building. With the start of the new year, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Youth Committee aims to offer more networking opportunities for students and young professionals within the literary […]
Thursday, February 1 7:00 pm The Almanac on Whyte Free for members and $5 for non-members Our season of monthly events resumes on Thursday, February 1, when Marilyn Dumont, poet and creative writing instructor, will be with us at the Almanac to read from her work and participate in a discussion about creativity, identity, and […]
WGA Conference 2018 Save the Date! The WGA Annual Conference and AGM will be held June 1 – 3, 2018 in Calgary. The Alberta Literary Awards Gala will take place on the evening of June 2. Conference: Memorial Park Library 1221 2 St SW, Calgary Gala: Hyatt Regency 700 Centre Street SE, Calgary Accommodation: Fairfield Marriott 239 12th […]
Who are we? Why are we here? What is happening in the world? Join the 2016 Borderlines Writers Circle participants as they share why they became writers, their influences, and why writing matters in today’s world. With Tazeen Hasan, Kate Rittner-Werkman, Mohamed Abdi, and Nermeen Youssef. Hosted and produced by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. […]
Tuesday, December 12 | 7:00—10:00pm Rose & Crown Pub & Restaurant | Private room upstairs 1503 4th St SW, Calgary FREE for WGA members | Non-members $5 at the door (cash only) Seating is first come, first served. Please RSVP via Facebook Kick back and relax with your literary friends over a pint of cheer and some complimentary […]
WRITING THE EARTH: AUTUMN REFLECTIONS AT THE GARDEN Sunday, October 29, 2017 9:30 am – 3:30 pm Devonian Botanic Garden Back by popular demand, a writing workshop for the naturally inclined, led by critically-acclaimed author Jenna Butler, in the beautiful setting of the University of Alberta Botanic Garden. Participants will take in the sights, sounds, […]
Date: Sunday, October 15 Time: 11:00 – 12:30 Place: Metro Cinema (8712 109 St) Six writers, each with different backgrounds and writing in a variety of genres, offer their perspectives and insights on the coming together of differences—differing languages, values, practices—and the surprising commonalities that can emerge through sharing stories. By way of multimedia presentations, […]
Thursday, October 5 7:00 pm The Almanac, 10351 Whyte Avenue Free for WGA members, $5 for non-members Not all open mic nights are poetry readings! Prose writers, this is your chance to share your work in a fun, supportive environment at our monthly pub night. Sign up to read when you arrive. Keep your reading […]
We can’t wait for you to sample all the timely and tasty treats Wordfest has cooked up for the 2017 Festival. For one week in October, the most delicious writers from Canada and the rest of the world will be serving up life-changing ideas at theatres around Calgary, as well as Wordfest’s new home at […]
Thursday, October 26 | 7:00—9:30pm WGA members Free | Non-members $5 cash donation @ the door Shelf Life Books @ 1302 – 4th Street SW, Calgary AB Please join us for Calgary’s 2nd annual Beer & Literary Pairings in celebration of Alberta Beer Week! Five local authors’ work will be paired to five local microbrews and guests will be invited […]
Thursday, November 2 7:00 pm The Almanac, 10351 Whyte Avenue Free for WGA members, $5 for non-members Join us as fiction writer Debbie Willis and poet Marco Melfi read from their work. Readings will be followed by a moderated Q&A period on finding your audience. Debbie Willis’s work has appeared in The Walrus, The Virginia Quarterly, […]
