2024 WordsWorth Instructors & Courses
Registration is open! Early Bird rate: $590 until April 30, 2024 Regular rate: $630 starting May 1, 2024 Week 1 (ages 11 – 14): July 14th – 19th, 2024 Week 2 (ages 15 – 19): July 21st – 26th, 2024 Location: Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP), Red Deer, AB T-shirt: $25Anthology: $12 WordsWorth is a week-long sleepover creative writing residency for young writers […]
2024 Alberta Literary Awards Finalists Announced!
2024 Alberta Literary Awards Finalists Announced! The Writers’ Guild of Alberta is excited to announce the finalists for the 2024 Alberta Literary Awards. Each year, the Alberta Literary Awards celebrate the highest standards of literary excellence from Alberta authors. The WGA would like to send our congratulations to those whose work is among this year’s finalists! We […]
KEMOSA READING EVENT: A CELEBRATION OF MÉTIS, INUIT, AND FIRST NATIONS MOTHERS WHO WRITE (May 10, EDMONTON)
May 10, 5:30 pmYorath House, 13110 Buena Vista Rd. NWAdmission FREESnacks and Drinks Provided Please join us at Yorath House in Edmonton on May 10, at 5:30 pm to celebrate the winners of the 7th Annual Kemosa Scholarship for First Nations, Metis & Inuit Mothers Who Write. The winners will perform readings. You can view […]
WordsWorth 2024: Dragonsong Registration Form
Week 1 (ages 11-14): July 14 – 19, 2024Week 2 (ages 15-19): July 21 – 26, 2024 Early Bird rate (April 2 to April 30): $590Regular rate (starting May 1): $630 Location: Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP), Red Deer, AB T-shirt: $25Anthology: $12 Please select the WordWorth program you wish to register for below. You may pre-order […]
7th Annual Kemosa Scholarship Winners Announced
Winners of the 7th Annual Kemosa Scholarship for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Mothers Who Write The Writers’ Guild of Alberta and Nhung Tran-Davies are pleased to announce the winners of the 7th Annual Kemosa Scholarship for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Mothers Who Write. First established in 2017 by Dr. Nhung Tran-Davies in partnership […]
Horizons Writers Circle 2024 Participants Announced
Horizons Writers Circle The Writers’ Guild of Alberta is proud to announce the participants for the 2024 Horizons Writers Circle. Horizons Writers Circle is a program that provides support and mentorship for writers within the Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) community, ESL, and underrepresented writers who live in Edmonton and are at the beginning […]
Member Books Forms
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This Beautiful Place: Authors in Fish Creek Park (Calgary-October 15)
This Beautiful Place: Authors in Fish Creek Park Sunday, October 15th, 2023 1:00pm to 3:00pm MSTThe PoetTree at the Bow Valley Ranche15979 Bow Bottom Trail SE, Calgary, ABFree In hopes that this beautiful autumn weather holds firm, please join us at a gorgeous, unique venue in South Calgary for an outdoor afternoon event of readings […]
Golden Pen Nomination Form
The Writers’ Guild of Alberta Golden Pen Award is presented to acknowledge the lifetime achievements of outstanding Alberta writers. Past recipients are W. O. Mitchell, Grant MacEwan, Rudy Wiebe, Myrna Kostash, Robert Kroetsch, Merna Summers, Aritha van Herk, Fred Stenson, George Melnyk, Alice Major, Betty Jane Hegerat, Greg Hollingshead, Bob Stallworthy, Vivian Hansen, Chris Wiseman […]