THE STORY SALON - EVERY SUNDAY | 10AM-12PM - THE ALEXANDRA WRITERS CENTRE SOCIETY - REGISTER HERE
No experience required.
Do you love to write stories? Flash fiction, longer shorts? Novels? Creative Nonfiction?
The Story Salon is a place for writers to come together, share ideas, write collaboratively or alone. We’ll write, share and discuss. Each week we start with sharing writing from the previous week or work on a prompt; we discuss brewing issues about the writers life such as moving past rejection, comparing ourselves to other writers, sharing our successes and roadblocks. Sometimes we write, sometimes we chat. We always have a good time.
JANUARY 2021
JAN 20 - Novel Writing 101 - The Alexandra Writers Centre Society - 8 WEEKS | 6:30PM - 8:30PM REGISTER HERE
Have you been thinking about writing a novel but don’t know where to start? Have an idea but can’t get from concept to words on a page?
This 8-week course is designed to get you started on that book-length manuscript. Instruction will focus on characterization, voice, plot, setting, conflict etc. as they specifically apply to those critical first chapters and how to keep going. While this course includes no formal workshopping, students can expect to share their work as it relates to a variety of writing exercises. By the end of the course, students will have generated a strong and focused beginning to their manuscript and be well poised to continue through the middle and eventually to the end.
MAY 2021
MAY 28-30 - AWCS & WGA PRESENTS - Re/Orientation - Annual Writers Conference - VIRTUAL
May 30 - Writing in Your Backyard (as part of the WGA/AWCS Conference) with Anna Marie Sewell (Humane), Doreen Vanderstoop (Watershed), Alexis Kienlen (Mad Cow)
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PAST EVENTS
FEBRUARY 2020
FEB 14 - Bloody Offensive 2020 - F*cked Up Folk Tales - Host, alongside the unforgettable PJ Vernon.
The FREE, rowdy, disreputable, adults-only Valentine's Day romp you don't want to miss. Don your red riding cloak and indulge in a literary jaunt through the woods featuring wolfish readings, poison apple cocktails, Goldilocks goodies, and prizes fit to blow your house down. This year, our theme is a twisted take on folklore with spellbinding storytellers and our cursed collective providing interim entertainment and indecency.
Readings by: Bree Carney, Robert Bose, Ashton Noone, Tyler Perry, Sarah L. Johnson and Alex Benarzi.
The Bloody Offensive Collective is made up of: Robert Bose, Sarah L. Johnson, PJ Vernon and Robin van Eck.
This event is gratefully sponsored by: The Seventh Terrace and the Alexandra Writers Centre
MARCH TO AUGUST 2020
We're in the middle of a pandemic. Stay safe and healthy, everyone.
SEPTEMBER 2020
Creative Writing Basics Level 1 @ the Alexandra Writers Centre Society - Begins September 30 - 8 weeks - 7-9pm
NOVEMBER 2020
NOV. 1 - Rough available anywhere books are sold. Check your local bookseller or shop online.
NOV. 7 - 5:30pm MST - Stonehouse Publishing - Virtual Book Launch: Rough by Robin van Eck, Censorettes by Elizabeth Bales Frank, Fall of Night by DK Stone, All the Night Gone by Sabrina Uswak, Humane by Anna Marie Sewell - RSVP Here
NOV. 25 - 7:00pm MST - Writers Unplugged - Open Mic Night - Hosted by Sarah L Johnson, presented by the Alexandra Writers Centre and Owl's Nest Books
DECEMBER 2020
DEC. 2 - Virtual Book Launch - Flying the Nest by Joy Norstrom - Hosted by Robin van Eck - Presented by Owl's Nest Books
DEC. 5 - Triwood Christmas Market, Calgary
No experience required.
Do you love to write stories? Flash fiction, longer shorts? Novels? Creative Nonfiction?
The Story Salon is a place for writers to come together, share ideas, write collaboratively or alone. We’ll write, share and discuss. Each week we start with sharing writing from the previous week or work on a prompt; we discuss brewing issues about the writers life such as moving past rejection, comparing ourselves to other writers, sharing our successes and roadblocks. Sometimes we write, sometimes we chat. We always have a good time.
JANUARY 2021
JAN 20 - Novel Writing 101 - The Alexandra Writers Centre Society - 8 WEEKS | 6:30PM - 8:30PM REGISTER HERE
Have you been thinking about writing a novel but don’t know where to start? Have an idea but can’t get from concept to words on a page?
This 8-week course is designed to get you started on that book-length manuscript. Instruction will focus on characterization, voice, plot, setting, conflict etc. as they specifically apply to those critical first chapters and how to keep going. While this course includes no formal workshopping, students can expect to share their work as it relates to a variety of writing exercises. By the end of the course, students will have generated a strong and focused beginning to their manuscript and be well poised to continue through the middle and eventually to the end.
MAY 2021
MAY 28-30 - AWCS & WGA PRESENTS - Re/Orientation - Annual Writers Conference - VIRTUAL
May 30 - Writing in Your Backyard (as part of the WGA/AWCS Conference) with Anna Marie Sewell (Humane), Doreen Vanderstoop (Watershed), Alexis Kienlen (Mad Cow)
~~~
PAST EVENTS
FEBRUARY 2020
FEB 14 - Bloody Offensive 2020 - F*cked Up Folk Tales - Host, alongside the unforgettable PJ Vernon.
The FREE, rowdy, disreputable, adults-only Valentine's Day romp you don't want to miss. Don your red riding cloak and indulge in a literary jaunt through the woods featuring wolfish readings, poison apple cocktails, Goldilocks goodies, and prizes fit to blow your house down. This year, our theme is a twisted take on folklore with spellbinding storytellers and our cursed collective providing interim entertainment and indecency.
Readings by: Bree Carney, Robert Bose, Ashton Noone, Tyler Perry, Sarah L. Johnson and Alex Benarzi.
The Bloody Offensive Collective is made up of: Robert Bose, Sarah L. Johnson, PJ Vernon and Robin van Eck.
This event is gratefully sponsored by: The Seventh Terrace and the Alexandra Writers Centre
MARCH TO AUGUST 2020
We're in the middle of a pandemic. Stay safe and healthy, everyone.
SEPTEMBER 2020
Creative Writing Basics Level 1 @ the Alexandra Writers Centre Society - Begins September 30 - 8 weeks - 7-9pm
NOVEMBER 2020
NOV. 1 - Rough available anywhere books are sold. Check your local bookseller or shop online.
NOV. 7 - 5:30pm MST - Stonehouse Publishing - Virtual Book Launch: Rough by Robin van Eck, Censorettes by Elizabeth Bales Frank, Fall of Night by DK Stone, All the Night Gone by Sabrina Uswak, Humane by Anna Marie Sewell - RSVP Here
NOV. 25 - 7:00pm MST - Writers Unplugged - Open Mic Night - Hosted by Sarah L Johnson, presented by the Alexandra Writers Centre and Owl's Nest Books
DECEMBER 2020
DEC. 2 - Virtual Book Launch - Flying the Nest by Joy Norstrom - Hosted by Robin van Eck - Presented by Owl's Nest Books
DEC. 5 - Triwood Christmas Market, Calgary
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