1:00 PM – 3:00 PM MT
Blindman Brewing
3413 53rd Ave
Lacombe
Join your fellow Alberta Writers for our next Meet in the Middle open mic and gathering in Lacombe, Alberta! We will have some snacks available and time to listen to other writers, catch up, and gather before the winter sets in. Roughly midway between Edmonton and Calgary, this event hopes to bring writers in the region closer together.
We are excited to be featuring Hilary Faktor and Aldona Dziedziejko!
This event is a collaboration between the Alexandra Writers’ Centre and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta.
Hilary Faktor is a writer shaped by the boreal forest and the rhythms of a northern mining town. Her work draws on family folklore and lived experience to explore overlooked landscapes, quiet histories, and the people who inhabit them.
Her essays and journalism have appeared in Canada’s History, The Globe and Mail, HuffPost Canada, and Maclean’s. She is pursuing an MA in English at the University of Calgary.
Her debut novel, Pretty Bird, is a coming-of-age thriller set between Toronto and an isolated Saskatchewan farm. It will be published by Rowan Prose Publishing on October 20, 2026.
Aldona Dziedziejko is an educator, writer and mom currently living in Clearwater County/Wabaska Thîŋa Wacipi. Her work explores ambiguous loss and grief: what’s talked about and what’s not talked about, and the grey areas that shape us. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in CV2, subTerrain, Poetry is Dead, The Capilano Review, Fiction Southeast, Pulp Literature and PRISM international, among several others. Her work was recognized through the Lina Chartrand Poetry Award (CV2), Magpie Poetry Contest and the Hummingbird Flash Fiction contest (Pulp Literature), Lush Triumphant Literary Prize (subTerrain), Off Topic Poetry contest, Room Magazine’s Short Forms Contest and Arc Poetry Magazine’s Award of Awesomeness. She is the 2024 winner of the CBC/Radio-Canada Non-fiction Contest.
