Gathering of Words: Flash Fiction Improv & Live Edit (Calgary)
Friday, July 11th, 2025
4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Central Library
800 3rd Street SE
Under the Arch (outside the front doors)
Join us for this WGA collaboration with the Calgary Public Library on their series, Gathering of Words! This special event will involve a group generated flash fiction story followed by a live edit, with the goal of showing the process from creation to publication of a piece of short fiction in a fun and engaging way! Facilitated by Chimedum Ohaegbu.
About the Facilitator
Chimedum Ohaegbu resides in Moh’kinstsis, colonially known as Calgary, Alberta. She is a three-time Hugo Award winner, and Room Magazine‘s managing editor. She’s a 2021 graduate of UBC’s Creative Writing Program (Bachelor of Fine Arts) and, as a playwright, the 2021 Black Arts Development Program. She loves insect facts, the theatre and stageplays, birds and magpies especially, and orchestral video game music. Her work can be found in Strange Horizons, Arc Poetry Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and the Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Vol.3, among others. She is currently working on her first novel.