WGA Youth Announcements

Book Week 2013 Writing Contest Do you love to write? Are you in Grade 4 to 12? If so, enter the Book Week 2013 Writing Contest! Young writers from across Canada, in grades 4 to 12, are invited to submit their stories and/or poems (fiction or non-fiction) to theBook Week 2013 Writing Contest for Kids & Teens. Judging is done by noted writers from across Canada and one winner from each grade will receive a $250 gift

Here is an opportunity for Youth to promote their rights by being creative and heard. “The Office of the Child and Youth Advocate (OCYA) announced an Art Contest “We Want to Be Heard” for Alberta youth. In the interest of promoting the rights and voices of children and youth in Alberta, the OCYA wants young people to use their imaginations and to color or create a picture using a dove (as it stands for their

*Accepting unpublished travel writing pieces by authors 30 years old and younger. The Amber Bowerman Memorial Travel Writing Award was established in 2008 as a tribute to Amber Bowerman, a talented, successful Calgary writer whose life met a tragic end at the age of 30. Amber loved to travel. This award will recognize a writer, aged 30 or younger, with an extraordinary piece about a travel experience. The winning piece will inspire others to leave

If this summer will be your first one at WordsWorth Creative Writing Residency, there is one thing you will notice at the end of it.  One week is not long enough. If you’ve been at WordsWorth before, you know what I’m talking about. The collective creative energy generated when everyone gets together, writes, sings, moves, creates, collaborates and supports one another is too beautiful and too big to contain into one week.  So a small

I recently read an interview with American poet Rita Dove who shared that she had no inspiration to be a writer because she “had never met a writer and didn’t think of writing as an occupation or something that a living person did or that someone like (she) could do for a living.  To (her) every writer was firmly frozen between the covers of a book.  And most of them were white males.  It wasn’t until (she)

Here they are, the courses and instructors offered for week one: Please refer to their individual blog page here on this site to learn more about each course and the instructor. Contemporary Libretto with Sandy Pool Last Poets Standing-A Slam Play with Jen Kunlire This All Happened (Creative Nonfiction) with Marcello Di Cintio Stories on Stage with Andrew Torry Songwriting with Brendan McLeod Speculative Fiction with Kim Firmston Breath Body Flow with David Wilson Writing For the Screen with Renee St. Cyr Wordbound with