WGA Late Summer Retreat
Thursday, August 28th to Sunday, August 31st, 2025
Sanctum Retreat
Check-in: 4:00pm || Check-out: 2:00pm
11 Sanctum Way, Caroline, Alberta
Registration opens at 10:00 AM MT on Monday, May 5th, 2025
Cost for two-night Stay (Friday to Sunday)
$600 for WGA members (or two payments* of $300)
$700 for non-members (or two payments* of $350)
Cost for three-night Stay (Thursday to Sunday)
$750 for WGA members (or two payments* of $375)
$850 for non-members (or two payments* of $425)
Cost includes private room accommodation–double and queen rooms available upon request–meals, and quality programming throughout the weekend.
*When choosing the two payments option, the order for the first payment should be made at time of registration. The second payment can be made anytime up until August 14th.
Please join us late this summer as we return to the beautiful Sanctum Retreat Centre in Caroline for a weekend of craft development, creativity, and connection. We are so excited to announce two award-winning Authors in Residence: poet and essayist Jenna Butler and scientist and speculative fiction author Premee Mohamed!
About the Authors in Residence:
Dr. Jenna Butler (she/her) is an award-winning poet, essayist, and editor. She is the author of six collections of poetry and essays. Revery: A Year of Bees, essays about beekeeping, climate grief, and trauma recovery, was a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award and a longlisted title for CBC Canada Reads. A retired professor of creative and environmental writing, Butler holds fellowships from the Yaddo Foundation (USA) and Studio Faire (France). She currently serves as the 2025 Writer in Residence at MacEwan University. Butler works on the land between a collaborative off-grid organic farm in northern Treaty 6 and the unceded traditional territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples of Vancouver Island.
Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Locus, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, and Crawford awards. In 2024, she was the Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence. Currently, she is an Assistant Editor at the short fiction audio venue Escape Pod. She is the author of the ‘Beneath the Rising’ series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues and she can be found on her website at www.premeemohamed.com.