An important event in our conference weekend is the Alberta Literary Awards Gala. This is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the work of Alberta authors, support each other in the literary community, visit with friends, and meet new people.
2025 Alberta Literary Awards
The 2025 Alberta Literary Awards Gala will take place in June 6, 2025 in Calgary. Join us for a night to celebrate the finalists and winners!
Alberta Literary Awards Gala 2025
Friday, June 6. Doors: 7PM
Festival Hall
1215 10 Ave SE
Calgary, Alberta
Tickets: $40 (includes one drink ticket) hors d’oeuvres served (registration opens February 18th, 2025)
Cobra Collins and Matt. Miller will be the hosts of the evening.
Host Cobra Collins
Cobra Collins is a Mohkínstsis based Indigenous and settler poet of significant height.
She has represented our city on a national level at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and was humbled to sit as Indigenous advocate on the Writers’ Union of Canada’s (TWUC) National Council in 2021 and 2022. Her debut short film “Hop Along Hang On” has been featured nationwide and internationally in numerous film festivals and has won several awards, including Best short film, Black Hills film festival. Cobra was also honoured to be shortlisted as a nominee for Calgary’s 2016 & 2018 poet laureate.
Host Matt. Miller
Matt. Miller hails from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 2014 Canadian Poetry Slam Champion. 4-time Canadian Representative at the National Poetry Slam. Retired Beer League Baseball Player.
One-time Worm Picker. Former Salmon Derby Co-ordinator. Spent a summer rabbit breeding.
Turns jokes into poems and poems into jokes.
2025 Finalists
The 2025 Alberta Literary Awards intake has closed! Finalists were announced April 1, 2025.
We hosted finalists’ readings and celebrations on April 25th for Calgary and May 4th for Edmonton.
Awards
The Alberta Literary Awards were created by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta in 1982 to recognize excellence in writing by Alberta authors. Entries are judged by an independent jury recruited by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. Submissions are evaluated on originality, creativity and quality of writing, as well as appropriate fit within a category.
