We Are Ready to Welcome You Back!
Effective September 23, 2021, AWCS will be adhering to the City of Calgary Bylaw 65M2021 requiring proof of vaccination, a negative Covid test or medical exemption.
Masking is required in all public areas of cSpace.
Additional safety measures will remain in place.
It’s prep-tober! 🍁 Join the AWCS NaNoWriMo community Oct. 29th. Find the details to register at the event calendar on our website.
www.alexandrawriters.org
Happy 40th Anniversary to AWCS! What does AWCS mean to you? Hear what our members have to say.
The Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society
The Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society aims to bring writers together. We provide a relaxed, friendly and encouraging environment where writers of all ages and abilities feel safe learning the craft and sharing the difficulties of the writing experience. The AWCS supports developing writers through a variety of offerings
Courses & Workshops!
WEBINAR How to Improve Your Online Presentations
With virtual readings and workshops becoming a reality, authors must find a way to ramp up their online sessions to keep audiences watching. Author and virtual presenter,...
WEBINAR Writers’ Conferences: Worth Your While?
What is the purpose for attending writers’ conferences, beyond the benefits of programming? Whether you’re meeting agents, editors, and publishers or making...
Dungeons & Dragons Club (In-Person, Fridays)
In our classroom! Grades 5-12 – Come on an adventure solving puzzles, finding traps, battling monsters, and getting treasure with this super popular storytelling game....
Start Your Story!
The Role of Stories in Truth and Reconciliation
I wish to start by stating that I am writing this as a non-Indigenous person. It is not my intent to represent any views or speak on behalf of anyone. I also wish to...
Should You Consider Your Audience as You Write?
Some time ago, there was a post in Twitter’s writing community that expressed a common idea: whom are you writing for? This is the question, isn’t it? It is a question that...
The Women’s Prize for Fiction (and Happy International Women’s Day)
My plan as I sat down to write this was to churn out a somber think-piece about the declining state of this blog caused by the declining state of my creative writing, and...
