WGA Holiday Party — (Calgary) December 11, 2024

WGA Holiday Party

SOLD OUT – Registration for the Calgary Holiday Party is now closed due to having reached the venue capacity. If you have any questions regarding the event, please contact Ashley Frerichs at [email protected]

Please join us for our 2024 Calgary Holiday Party! It’ll be an evening to eat, drink & be merry together as we celebrate the wonderful and inspiring literary community in Calgary! You can expect light catering, door prizes, a raffle, and readings from Kirti Bhadresa, Clem Martini, Joshua Whitehead, and Sheri-D Wilson. Shelf Life Books will be on site selling books from both THIS YEAR’S and LAST YEAR’S readers, plus a small selection of knick knacks (great for stocking stuffers!) Come for the party, stay to do your holiday shopping!

Members, cover is not required but please (if you can) consider a small donation of $5 to help us offset catering costs. Register here.

*Venue is wheelchair accessible using the elevator in the attached parkade

About the Readers:

Kirti Bhadresa’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, The Quarantine Review, The Sprawl, and Room, and she has been a finalist for the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Award in the category of Feature Writing. Bhadresa lives with her family in Calgary, AB, on Treaty 7 territory.

Clem Martini is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and screenwriter with over thirty plays, and thirteen books of fiction and nonfiction to his credit, including the W.O. Mitchell Award-winning Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness,The Unravelling, and The Comedian. His most recently premiered plays, Cantata (Rumours of My Crazy, Useless Life) and The Extinction Therapist were published together in a book in 2023. He’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and teaches in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary. 

Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer, Jonny Appleseed, Making Love with the Land, and Indigiqueerness: a Conversation About Storytelling as well as the editor of Love after the End: an Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Whitehead is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary (Treaty 7).

Sheri-D Wilson is the award-winning author and creator of 13 books, 4 short films,
and 4 albums which combine music and poetry. In 2019 she was appointed one to the Order of Canada, for her contributions as a Spoken Word Poet, and her leadership in the community. In 2017, she received her Doctor of Letters—Honoris Causa from Kwantlen University. She is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Calgary 2018–2020. A strong advocate for social change and community building, Sheri-D was Founder & Director of: Calgary Spoken Word Society (2003-2023) Spoken Word Festival, Ink Spot Reading Series, School of Thought & Word Travels School Program, Initiated and developed The Spoken Word Program at the Banff Centre where she served as Director and Faculty for seven years. Sheri-D presently lives between Calgary & Vancouver with her dog Willow.

Raffle Fundraiser & Door Prizes

Registration

Registration for the Calgary Holiday Party is now closed due to having reached the venue capacity. If you have any questions regarding the event, please contact Ashley Frerichs at [email protected]