WGA Presents: Be a Video Poem Maker Workshop
May 11– On May 11, The Writers’ Guild of Alberta and YEP! will launch Be A Video Poem Maker! Part 1 instructed by celebrated filmmaker Shawn Tse and nationally recognized spoken word poet Brandon Wint. This workshop aims to help teens learn to write and speak poems, and turn those poems into captivating videos. Tablets […]
Drink the Wild Air 2017
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Date: March 10-12, 2017 Place: Kamp Kiwanis in Bragg Creek, Alberta. Ages: The retreat is for young writers ages 12-19. Cost: $190 (Price includes meals – Friday dinner to lunch on Sunday, overnight accommodations, classes and evening activities.) Because we can’t offer WordsWorth all year long, there’s Drink […]
2015 WordsWorth Course Outlines
Click on one of the following tabs to view course outlines for each of the three weeks of WordsWorth Tabs [tabs style=”default”] [tab title=”Week One (ages 12 – 14): July 5 – 10″] Week One (ages 12 – 14): July 5 – 10 Songwriting (with Kris Demeanor) The goal over the five sessions […]
Performance Tips offered by Erin Dingle
Don’t hit your rhymes, let them roll Silences are part of your poem/reading Allow your audience time to catch up with you mentally by providing spaces and silence Write in the words “pause” and “stop” into your work and highlight these two words to remind yourself when to pause and when to stop Identify […]
Book Week 2013 Writing Contest
Book Week 2013 Writing Contest Do you love to write? Are you in Grade 4 to 12? If so, enter the Book Week 2013 Writing Contest! Young writers from across Canada, in grades 4 to 12, are invited to submit their stories and/or poems (fiction or non-fiction) to theBook Week 2013 Writing Contest for Kids […]
Youth Art Contest. Good Cause. Good Prizes
Here is an opportunity for Youth to promote their rights by being creative and heard. “The Office of the Child and Youth Advocate (OCYA) announced an Art Contest “We Want to Be Heard” for Alberta youth. In the interest of promoting the rights and voices of children and youth in Alberta, the OCYA wants young […]
AMBER BOWERMAN MEMORIAL TRAVEL WRITING AWARD ($700)
*Accepting unpublished travel writing pieces by authors 30 years old and younger. The Amber Bowerman Memorial Travel Writing Award was established in 2008 as a tribute to Amber Bowerman, a talented, successful Calgary writer whose life met a tragic end at the age of 30. Amber loved to travel. This award will recognize a writer, […]
Eat a Good Breakfast Today-Today is FULL-and you are INVITED
If this summer will be your first one at WordsWorth Creative Writing Residency, there is one thing you will notice at the end of it. One week is not long enough. If you’ve been at WordsWorth before, you know what I’m talking about. The collective creative energy generated when everyone gets together, writes, sings, moves, […]
Writers Are Real People. Meet Real Writers at WordsWorth.
I recently read an interview with American poet Rita Dove who shared that she had no inspiration to be a writer because she “had never met a writer and didn’t think of writing as an occupation or something that a living person did or that someone like (she) could do for a living. To (her) every writer […]
Week One Classes and Instructors
Here they are, the courses and instructors offered for week one: Please refer to their individual blog page here on this site to learn more about each course and the instructor. Contemporary Libretto with Sandy Pool Last Poets Standing-A Slam Play with Jen Kunlire This All Happened (Creative Nonfiction) with Marcello Di Cintio Stories on Stage with Andrew Torry […]