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Wednesday, April 3rd Almanac on Whyte 7pm. Open Mic starts at 7:30pm It’s been a long, dark, bitterly cold winter but Spring is around the corner and with it brings the sweet slushy promise of lukewarm temperatures, puddles, and of course spring cleaning. We writers have been going stir crazy in our houses, caves, and hobbit holes all winter and now is the time to emerge and share with our friends what we’ve been working on all this time locked

Finding the Words: Writing About the Fort McMurray Wildfire will help any new writer navigate the first steps in the writing process. This free, limited seating workshop for new writers is custom-designed with practical tips and inspiration to help you commit to your writing in a judgement-free environment. Saturday April 6, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Syncrude Program Room Fort at the McMurray Regional Library in Macdonald Island Park Limited seats are available and pre-registration is required. Register online

Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM   Action for Healthy Communities Society of Edmonton #100, 10578 113 St Multilingual Poetry Reading on Amiskwaciwâskahikan Join AHC Artist in Residence Luciana Erregue – as she reads along with her multilingual writer friends Yasser Abdel-Latif, Lisa Dublin, Shimelis Gebremichael, Mila Bongco-Philipzig, Leilei Chen Family Friendly – Light Refreshments will be served Contact [email protected] for more info. Featuring past participants of the Borderlines Writers Circle!  

Thursday, March 28 | Rose & Crown Pub at 1503 4th Street Guests are invited to arrive anytime after 6:00 p.m. to settle-in, order dinner & socialize  Happy Hour ($5 drinks) is on between 6:00—7:00 p.m! Readings & Panel Discussion | 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.  Join us for a spring pub night and enjoy six punchy readings from works on the go or scheduled for imminent publication. We will delve into a diverse array of subject matter and genre—and following the readings—WGA’s

For Immediate Release: The Writers’ Guild of Alberta and Nhung Tran-Davies are pleased to announce the winners of the 2nd Annual Kemosa Scholarship for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Mothers Who Write. First established in 2017 by Dr. Nhung Tran-Davies in partnership with Tlicho Dene author Richard Van Camp, the Kemosa Scholarship offers an opportunity for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Mothers to obtain resources to help them complete the work on their writing – whether that be a novel,

Editors and Writers: Both Sides of the Page – a partner event by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta and Editors Edmonton, the local group of Editors Canada Are you a writer with a finished or in-progress manuscript or a short piece of work that needs editing, but you don’t fully understand the services that an editor can offer or how to get started? Are you an editor who’s eager to discuss what you do and how you can collaborate with writers to help them polish their work and present it

On behalf of the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, we are pleased to announce the participants and mentors for the 2019 Borderlines Writers Circle Calgary. The Writers Circle is made possible through the generous support of the Calgary Foundation.  The Borderlines Writers Circle is an initiative that aims to serve writers from a variety of linguistic and cultural backgrounds who live in Calgary and are not yet connected to the local writing community. The program

WGA Member Night Wednesday, March 6. 2019 7pm. The Almanac on Whyte, 10351 82 Ave. Members: Free. Non-members $5 Writers in Residence: They’re here to help! The Alberta writing community is blessed to have multiple institutions that provide a Writer-in-Residence program. Libraries, universities, and other literary institutions and non-profits support these programs that make skilled writers available in their communities to provide free consultations and feedback with emerging writers. This event will be all about how Writers in Residence can help

How to Negotiate Self-Censorship in Your Writing An Interview with author Taylor Lambert and Borderlines member Kelly Kaur ~ moderated by David de Vlieger Thursday, February 28 | Rose & Crown Pub at 1503 4th Street Guests are invited to arrive anytime after 6:00 p.m. Half-price bottle of wine night! Formal program 7:00 p.m. In acknowledgment of Freedom to Read Week and our freedom of expression, we hope you will join the Writers’ Guild of Alberta and the Alexandra Writers