You’re officially invited to the event your soul didn’t know it needed.
Join us for an inspiring evening of poetry, paint, and powerful stories at RETRO in downtown Camrose as we celebrate local creativity in full bloom.
🖋️ Carmen Lea — launching her raw and radiant poetry memoir
Unshattered: A Journey in Poems from Wreckage to Radiance
💜 Come get your copy signed and meet the author!
Date and Time:
Sunday, June 15, 2025, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Venue Name and Address:
9351 118 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T5G 0N3
Link to Event:
https://www.thecarrot.ca/events-at-the-carrot/2025/06/father's day event-kamishibai-storytelling
Event Cost:
Free event, all ages welcome.
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Calling all youth who like to write... just about anything! Registration is open for YouthWrite® Summer Camps in Calgary. YouthWrite is a unique opportunity for kids expand to their writing horizons. Campers will receive instruction from published authors and learn techniques in many forms of communication and storytelling. Instructors will be announced soon.
The Next Generation Indie Book Awards, currently in its nineteenth year, is the largest international awards program for indie authors and independent publishers. The Indie Book Awards is now accepting entries from independent publishers and authors worldwide who have a book written in English and released in 2024, 2025, 2026 or with 2024, 2025, or 2026 copyright date. For the 2026 awards program, the Indie Book Awards offers 80+ categories.
The Next Generation Short Story Awards is a not-for-profit awards program open to authors writing original unpublished short stories (5,000 words or less per story) in English. Brought to you by the Next Generation Indie Book Awards (NGIBA) and Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group (IBPPG), the 2026 Next Generation Short Story Awards offers 30+ categories, and is open to all authors, even first-time authors, in the U.S., Canada or internationally.
Announcing the third year of The Prairie Grindstone Prize — a $50,000 literary award that acknowledges a hardworking, engaged prairie writer.
Nominations for The Prairie Grindstone Prize open on April 1 and will close on May 15 at midnight.
This annual prize, funded by an anonymous donor committee, alternates between the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. This year, the prize will be awarded to an Alberta writer. The Prairie Grindstone Prize recognizes prairie writers of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction with a cash prize of $50,000 that will enable the writer to focus on their work for a year or more.
This is not a book prize. It is awarded in acknowledgement of an author’s body of work and their contribution to the public’s appreciation for and understanding of Western Canada’s landscape, people, history, and culture.
The writer must have been a resident of the province of Alberta for the past five years, have a minimum of four professionally published books, and be an active member of the local writing community.
Authors may not self nominate and recipients will be selected by a jury of peers.
Full nomination guidelines can be found here: www.prairiegrindstoneprize.ca/nominate Letters of nomination and inquiries can be sent to grindstoneprize@gmail.com
For more information, please contact
Lisa Murphy Lamb, Jury Chair
Jun Lee, Marketing
e: grindstoneprize@gmail.com
www.prairiegrindstoneprize.ca
IG: @prairiegrindstoneprize
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Nominations for The Prairie Grindstone Prize open on April 1 and will close on May 15 at midnight.
Nominations for The Prairie Grindstone Prize open on April 1 and will close on May 15 at midnight.
Nominations for The Prairie Grindstone Prize open on April 1 and will close on May 15 at midnight.
Announcing the third year of The Prairie Grindstone Prize — a $50,000 literary award that acknowledges a hardworking, engaged prairie writer. This annual prize, funded by an anonymous donor committee, alternates between the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. This year, the prize will be awarded to an Alberta writer. The Prairie Grindstone Prize recognizes prairie writers of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction with a cash prize of $50,000 that will enable the writer to focus on their work for a year or more.
Writers’ Guild of Alberta Employment Opportunity: Communications Coordinator (Full Time,
Head Office, Edmonton)
Reports To: Executive Director of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta.
WordsWorth 2025: OURTIME is open for registration!
Week 1 (ages 11 – 14): July 13-18, 2025
Week 2 (ages 15 – 19): July 20-25, 2025
Early Bird rate: $630
Regular rate: $655
Location: Red Deer Polytechnic, Red Deer, AB
Building on the impactful presentations and dialogues held at the 2023 Prairie Art Institute in Regina, we are excited to announce the upcoming Prairie Art Network Institute, scheduled for June 25–27, 2025, in Calgary.
