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Until September 28, 2020Open to Peace Country residentsDeadline to submit: August 17 Attention all Peace Country residents! You can contribute your creative responses to the COVID-19 global health crisis in this special art exhibition, The Curve. The WGA is partnering with the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie (AGGP) to present The Curve, a multi-disciplinary community art installation exhibited through the summer of 2020 at the AGGP. It will honour those in the Peace Region who passed, who served, and who lived through

You can now listen to WGA podcasts on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/6dBGJWFtxbF8DejUlRG1D8 Listen to past podcasts from the WGA’s Borderlines Writers Circle, the Let’s Get Lit Poetry Podcast Series and the Book Women Podcast series all on our Spotify page!

The WGA is thrilled to announce the winners of our 2020 Pandemic Postcards Contest! We invited Alberta authors to share 250 word stories of what inspires their writing during this pandemic, and what they might write on a postcard from home. The winners will receive the following prizes as well as publication in an upcoming electronic chapbook. Congratulations to all of the winners! First Prize: $500 – “Full Tank” by Rachelle Pinnow (Calgary) Jury Comments: “This story wonderfully evokes many of the

Thursday, July 9th. 6:30 pm Join us for a virtual town hall and have your say on the WGA’s programming since the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled all of our in-person events and drove more of the activity online.  We would love to hear from you. We know that nothing compares to gathering with your fellow writers for a book launch or workshop, but we want to do everything we can to make our programming and offerings feel like the next best

WGA invites you to share what inspires your writing during this pandemic, and what you might write on a postcard from home. Who are you missing? Write them a greeting from your self-isolation stay-cation, or just share a short short story with them. What are you doing to keep amused? Do you have a funny or sad tale to tell? Here is an opportunity to share your creative expression. Rules: Deadline to submit is June 30, 2020. Prizes: First Prize:

Thursday, June 4, 8pm, Online The Writers’ Guild of Alberta, with the help of Reel Story Communications, has created a short video presentation that will celebrate this year’s finalists and announce the winners in eight categories, as well as the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize and Golden Pen Award. The video will be posted via the WGA Facebook page and we invite you all to watch the premiere with us on Thursday, June 4th at 8pm MST. Like

Tuesday, June 16, 2020Noon – 1:30 pmFree for WGA members, $20 for non-members Designed to loosen and stimulate the movement of words and thoughts, this fun and interactive workshop will relieve temporary writerly constipation.  A series of opening lines with only a few minutes to write will block your inner critic and help make writing fun again. The best part is the sharing and learning all writers get constipated from time to time.  You won’t finish anything in this workshop, but it should give