Workshop: Writing the Earth – Autumn Reflections at the Garden (with Jenna Butler)
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, […]
WGA and LitFest Present: Borderlines – Transcultural Artistic Encounters
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, […]
WGA PRESENTS: OPEN MIC NIGHT – READ LIKE THE PROS(E)
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 […]
Wordfest Featured Events
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 […]
WGA & ALBERTA SMALL BREWERS ASSOCIATION PRESENT: BEER & LITERARY PAIRINGS 2017
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 […]
DEBBIE WILLIS AND MARCO MELFI: READINGS AND A DISCUSSION ON FINDING YOUR AUDIENCE
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, […]
CALL FOR WGA EQUITY TASK FORCE MEMBERS
Interested in helping shape the future of the WGA? Please consider joining the Equity Task Force! The WGA is setting up a volunteer task force to explore and make recommendations on equity with regard to WGA programs, policies, and operational procedures. The four to six member task force will take part in two telephone meetings, one […]
Writers’ Guild of Alberta September Pub Night (YYC)
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 The Rose & Crown Pub: 1503 4 St SW Calgary, 3rd Floor Private Room Gather anytime after 6:00pm | Program 7:00 pm Free for WGA members $5.00 cash donation for non-members Join the WGA (YYC chapter) for our annual Fall Pub night at the Rose! Meet old friends and make new ones while we talk about the upcoming literary […]
EDMONTON FALL KICK-OFF
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 […]
Call for Applications: 2018 Banff Retreat Writers in Residence
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 […]