Wordfest 2017 Featured Events and Festival Pass Discount

20% WGA Discount on Wordfest Festival Pass – October 9-15, 2017 Use promo code WOW at checkout on Eventbrite: eventbrite.ca/e/wordfest-festival-pass-october-9-15-tickets-34259234292 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 […]

WGA Fall Kick-off YYC (Workshop) ~ Write Every Day with Lisa Pasold, September 23

WGA Fall Kick-off YYC: Write Every Day (Workshop) Saturday, September 23rd 10:15—1:15pm Please note that doors open at 10:00am sharp! WGA members $10  | $45 non-members Memorial Park Library Main Floor Salon | 1221 2 St SW, Calgary, AB Registration Now Open! Join the WGA and author Lisa Pasold for a discussion about the evolution of […]

2014 Mentorship Program Participants

Here are the participants of the 2014 WGA Mentorship Program: J. Jill Robinson/Gregory Koop Mentor – J.Jill Robinson is the author of four collections of stories, the most recent of which is Residual Desire. Her work, which has appeared in many Canadian literary journals, has won the Prism International fiction contest, Event’s creative nonfiction contest […]

Urgent: Still in Need of Casino Volunteers

Call for Casino Volunteers: August 13 – 14, 2017, Palace Casino (West Edmonton Mall) We have filled our casino spots thanks to a small army of volunteers! Our thanks to you all. But we could still use a few people as backups. If you are able to help out, you may select a shift via signup.com/go/JFeifn, […]

WGA 2018 Mentorship Program Application Deadline: Sept. 5

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 2018. We will accept up to five apprentices to work with mentors this year. The program is intended […]

Writing Home Workshop with Gail Anderson-Dargatz (Edmonton)

WRITING HOME With Gail Anderson-Dargatz Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00 am – 12:00 pm The Almanac on Whyte (10351 – Whyte Avenue) Workshop is now full We’ve all heard the phrase “write what you know” but writing from real life isn’t easy. We worry about what mom will think. We worry if we have the […]

2018 Banff Retreat: Save the Date

2018 Banff Retreat: Save the Date We are happy to announce that our 2018 Banff Retreat at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity will be held February 2 – 11, 2018. The Banff Retreat is an excellent opportunity to have personal self-directed writing time, receive feedback on writing from a writer in residence, and meet […]

WordsWorth 2017

  WordsWorth is a week-long sleepover creative writing residency for young writers who believe in the power of words. Writers will be completely immersed in the creative and diverse world of writing. Guided by established and respected artist-instructors, writers will experience writing through fiction, poetry, spoken word, music, drama, film making, monologue and nonfiction. But […]

APPLY FOR THE 2017 BORDERLINES WRITERS CIRCLE

The Writers’ Guild of Alberta is seeking applications from culturally diverse writers for its 2017 Borderlines Writers Circle.   The Borderlines Writers Circle is an intercultural initiative which aims to serve multilingual, multicultural writers who live in Edmonton and are not yet connected to the local writing community. The program is designed to yield new […]

2017 Alberta Literary Award Winners Announced

The Writers’ Guild of Alberta is pleased to reveal the winners of the 2017 Alberta Literary Awards. More than 100 guests attended the 2017 Alberta Literary Awards Gala, part of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s 2017 Edmonton Conference, Juxtapositions. This celebration marked the 35th anniversary of the Alberta Literary Awards and brought together writers from across Alberta. […]