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Nominations | Alberta Literary Awards 2020
Date: Oct 15, 2019
The Writers’ Guild of Alberta (WGA) is preparing to celebrate another successful year with the 2020 Alberta Literary Awards.
Deadline: Dec 31, 2019 - 11:45 pm
3rd Annual Kemosa Scholarship for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Mothers Who Write
Date: Oct 15, 2019
Three scholarships are available this year: 1st place $3000, 2nd place $2000, 3rd place $1000.
Deadline: Dec 20, 2019 - 11:45 pm
Workshop | Poetry in the Foothills
Date: Oct 6, 2019
Do you love language? Do you want to turn your prose into poetry? Then join us for a day of wordsmithing with top Canadian western poet Doris Daley.
Deadline: Nov 10, 2019 - 9:30 am
Call for Proposals | "Lands to Travel Through" at Alberta Association of Artist-run Centres
Date: Oct 1, 2019
This four-day event will centre practices of care, reciprocity and resource-sharing as critical responses to our current social and political climate.
Deadline: Nov 18, 2019 - 11:45 pm
Call for Submissions | Indigenous Playwrights Circle
Date: Sep 24, 2019
This offers Indigenous playwrights an interdisciplinary environment to work on their plays in autonomous collaboration with the Banff Playwright Lab.
Deadline: Nov 27, 2019 - 11:45 pm
Spring Writers Retreat 2020 | Banff Centre
Date: Sep 18, 2019
In this self-directed spring residency, spend two weeks in the Rocky Mountains focused on your project while engaging with writing peers.
Deadline: Nov 27, 2019 - 11:45 pm
2020 Writers' Guild of Alberta Mentorship Program Now Open for Applications!
Date: Sep 16, 2019
The Mentorship Program is designed to help promising emerging writers make the transition to the next stage of their careers.
Deadline: Oct 25, 2019 - 4:30 pm
The Writers’ Guild of Alberta, Freehand & Shelf Life Books Present: Calgary’s 10th Anniversary Giller Light Bash in Support of Frontier College
Date: Sep 13, 2019
Please join us for Calgary’s 10th anniversary of the Giller Light Bash on Monday, November 18!
Deadline: Nov 18, 2019 - 5:00 pm
Alexis Marie Chute receives 2018 Alumni Horizon Award
Date: Sep 14, 2018
Community invited to celebrate as artist and author receives UAlberta Alumni Award on September 24.
Billy-Ray Belcourt wins 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize
Date: Jun 7, 2018
Billy-Ray Belcourt wins $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize for his anthology, This Wound is a World.