Comics and Graphic Novels is a self-directed residency that considers how creatives use this unique media as a place for personal narrative, memoir, and exploration. The residency provides writers with the time and space to delve deep into their creative project away from the constraints of everyday life, take advantage of an artistic community of peers, and consult with experienced faculty.
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Performances start at 7:00 PM
No Cover | All Ages Welcome
Hosts: Bill Werthmann, Rhea March, Marty Siltanen, Braydon Gates
Get ready for a St. Patrick’s Day celebration filled with creativity, community, and great entertainment at The Carrot’s lively open mic! Sip on festive drinks like an Irish Fog, Irish Latte, or Matcha while enjoying an evening of music, poetry, comedy, and more.
The Writers’ Guild of Alberta Annual 2025 Spring Conference will explore major influences on genre and form through time. We will look at how writers continue to be inspired and influenced by those before them, and how we shape the landscape for those who come after us. Workshops, masterclasses, and panels will also delve into the business of writing and how to strengthen craft skills.
Unleash Press
Deadline to submit: July 15, 2025
The Unleash WIP Award offers writers support in the amount of $500 to supplement costs to support the completion of a book-length work of fiction, nonfiction or poetry. Writers will receive editorial feedback, coaching meetings, and an excerpt/interview feature in Unleash Lit.
Guidelines
Submit up to the first 25 pages of your WIP (.DOC, .DOCX) and answers to the following questions in the same document:
Since 2000 the City Arts Centre has been sparking creativity in people of all ages and artistic abilities. We are known for providing community based art programming taught by a local team of skilled artists and professionals who are passionate about infusing art and culture within the city of Edmonton. Patrons are both returning students who want to develop a skill in a specific art medium, while others are new to our programs and are exploring something new for the first time.
Join Deborah Willis, author of MacEwan’s 2024-25 Book of the Year, for an intimate reading of Girlfriend on Mars. Following the reading, there will be time for a question-and-answer session with the author about her writing process and the book.
The conversation will be with MacEwan’s 2024-25 Writer in Residence, Jenna Butler. Willis will also be available to sign copies of Girlfriend on Mars which will be available for purchase. Light refreshments will be served.
March 21, 2025: 5:30 pm – 7 pm
CN Theatre (Building 5)
5-142, City Centre Campus
10700 – 104 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
Join Deborah Willis, author of Girlfriend on Mars, for a reading, Q&A, book signing, and refreshments.
Join Deborah Willis, author of Girlfriend on Mars, for a reading, Q&A, book signing, and refreshments.
Join Deborah Willis, author of Girlfriend on Mars, for a reading, Q&A, book signing, and refreshments.
Join Deborah Willis, author of MacEwan’s 2024-25 Book of the Year, for an intimate reading of Girlfriend on Mars. Following the reading, there will be time for a question-and-answer session with the author about her writing process and the book. The conversation will be with MacEwan’s 2024-25 Writer in Residence, Jenna Butler. Willis will also be available to sign copies of Girlfriend on Mars which will be available for purchase. Light refreshments will be served.
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 2025 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.
This research was conducted in six waves over the course of 2020 and 2021. This is a community resource that is FREE to access and results from the sixth wave of research are now available.
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts is pleased to be a funding partner in this collaboration with Stone-Olafson and other community leaders to develop a long-term research investigation and evaluate how current conditions will reshape Albertans’ attitudes and behaviours towards social and group activities, across a variety of sectors. The purpose of this work is to give leaders of community sports, recreation, arts and culture, professional sports, active living, heritage, tourism or hospitality sectors relevant facts about local audiences that they will need to bring life back to our communities.
The initiative was funded by:
6th and final wave of results of a long-term study to gauge Alberta audiences' attitudes towards returning to live arts and culture venues and events.
6th and final wave of results of a long-term study to gauge Alberta audiences' attitudes towards returning to live arts and culture venues and events.
6th and final wave of results of a long-term study to gauge Alberta audiences' attitudes towards returning to live arts and culture venues
On November 17, the Canada Council for the Arts announced the 2021 winners of the Governor General’s Literary Awards (GGBooks). Inuk writer, Dr. Norma Dunning, who is based in Edmonton, Alberta, has been awarded the English-language fiction prize for her short story collection Tainna: The Unseen Ones.
On top of being a writer, Dr. Norma Dunning is also a scholar, researcher, professor and grandmother. Her previous short story collection, Annie Muktuk and Other Stories (University of Alberta Press, 2017), received the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the Howard O’Hagan Award for short stories and the Bronze Foreword INDIES award for short stories.
Six powerful short stories centred on modern-day Inuk characters are woven together in Tainna. Dr. Dunning drew on both lived experience and cultural memory, to write Tainna—meaning “the unseen ones” and pronounced Da‑e‑nn‑a.
The 14 best books of 2021 published in Canada, were selected by peer assessment committees that chose award winners from 70 finalists in seven categories, in both English and in French.
Founded in 1936, the Governor General's Literary Awards are among Canada's oldest and most prestigious prizes for literature. There are seven categories, awarded in both French and English, with $25,000 going to each winning book.
Congratulations to Norma Dunning, and also to Alberta-based writer Jenna Butler who was named a finalist for an award.
Congratulations to Norma Dunning, and also to Alberta-based writer Jenna Butler who was named a finalist for an award.
Congratulations to Norma Dunning, and also to Alberta-based writer Jenna Butler who was named a finalist for an award.
