Advocacy
Agents
Funding
Intellectual Property Protection
Libraries and Bookstores
Literary Festivals
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival
- Calgary International Spoken Word Festival
- Edmonton Poetry Festival
- LitFest: Edmonton’s Nonfiction Festival
- Pure Speculation: A Science & Fiction Festival in Edmonton
- STARFest (St. Albert)
- Taleblazers Festival: Annual Literary Arts Festival for Children (Alberta-wide)
- When Words Collide (Calgary)
- Wordfest: Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival
- Word on the Street Festival (Lethbridge)
- Words in the Park (Sherwood Park)
Organizations for Writers: Alberta
- Alberta Playwrights’ Network
- Alberta Romance Writers’ Association
- Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society
- Canadian Authors Association, Alberta Branch
- Canadian Literature Centre
- Edmonton Story Slam
- Get Publishing Communications Society
- Imaginative Fiction Writers Association
- Medicine Hat Rhyme & Reason Writer’s Club
- Parkland Poets
- Society for Technical Communications, West Coast (Western Canada)
- Single Onion
- Storytelling Alberta (TALES)
- Stroll of Poets Society
- Theatre Alberta
- Writers Foundation of Strathcona County
- Young Alberta Book Society (YABS)
Organizations for Writers: National
- Canadian Authors Association
- Canadian Children’s Book Centre
- Canadian Freelance Guild (formerly PWAC and CMG Freelance)
- Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP)
- Crime Writers of Canada
- Editors’ Association of Canada
- InScribe Christian Writers Fellowship
- League of Canadian Poets
- Playwrights Guild of Canada
- SF Canada
- Writers Guild of Canada
- The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC)
Professional Development and Writing Programs
- Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society
- The Banff Centre Literary Arts Programs
- Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs
- eCampus Alberta
- Grande Prairie Regional College
- MacEwan University School of Continuing Education
- Metro Continuing Education
- Mount Royal University
- University of Alberta Faculty of Extension
- University of Calgary
Publishers, Markets, and Contests
Resources
- BookNet Canada
- Carly Watters (agents)
- The Creative Penn (self-publishing)
- In Silhouette: Profiles of Alberta Writers by Bob Stallworthy
- Jane Friedman (publishing consultant)
- Nathan Bransford (publishing, agents)
- Preditors & Editors
- Writer Beware