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When Words Collide Merch
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Discount: $66.60 When Words Collide 2025 Merch Bundle You don't have to choose between mugs, pins, shirts, or water bottles. Have them all! This official When Words Collide 2025 merch bundle is the ultimate festival gift for yourself or for the WWC fan in your life. Click here to check out what this bundle includes. (Regular bundle discount: $110. Individual items, if bought separately, total of $147.) |
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When Words Collide Mug, standard
$10 Crisp and classic. This When Words Collide white mug is a blank canvas for bold ideas and brilliant bevvies. A great companion for penning poetry or plotting your next page-turner. This mug is your minimalist muse. Featuring our When Words Collide dragon, it’s perfect for writers looking for fluid inspiration. Pick one up at the Alexandra Writers’ Centre (or we'll ship it to ya!) and sip your way through stories in style. |
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WWC 2025 Commemorative Mug, blue
$10 Start your day with a sip of inspiration and memories of camaraderie and adventure with this official When Words Collide 2025 mug. It's bold. It's blue. It's brimming with literary magic. Whether you're sipping tea while plotting your next novel or fueling up on coffee before a freewrite, this mug is your trusty sidekick. Featuring the When Words Collide dragon, it's perfect for writers, readers, and beverage-loving dreamers. Pick yours up now at the Alexandra Writers’ Centre (or we'll ship it!), and let your mug do the talking—because when words collide, mugs matter. |
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WWC Commemorative grocery bags, purple
$10 Reusable. Roguish. Reliable. This When Words Collide grocery bag folds so thinly you can take it with you to any store, expo, book sale, or literary affairs. It can hold all kinds of items: from books, journals and pens to produce from a quick visit to the market. |
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WWC 2025 Commemorative Water Bottle, purple
$20 Your hydration hero! This When Words Collide 2025 purple water bottle is sleek, sturdy, and ready to go on a literary adventure. Whether you're dashing to your writing group or soaking up some sunshine, this bottle keeps your creativity flowing. Featuring the When Words Collide dragon, it’s a splash of literary flair with every sip. Bring it on a walk, a hike, or your hiding spot (aka the writing desk)--great ideas deserve great hydration. |
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WWC 2025 Commemorative shirt
(Options: teal and blue) Wear your words with pride. The official When Words Collide 2025 shirt is more than merch—it’s a wearable symbol of creativity, community, and dare we say literary mischief! Available in bold black or vibrant teal, this comfy tee features the festival’s iconic dragon on the front and a roll call of special guests on the back—like a backstage pass to North America's favourite storytelling festival. Whether you're a poet or prose writer, fiction or nonfiction, or fan of any and all genres, this shirt says: “I was there when the words collided.” |
Stickers and Pins
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Show your flair with these stickers and/or pins!
Wear your pride and your love of words on your shirt, jacket, sleeve, bag, laptop or notebook. Pick up your sticker(s) and/or pin(s) at Sabon. ORDER NOW |
AWCS YOUTH PROGRAM T-SHIRT
Get the latest AWCS Youth Program T-shirt in this pre-order blitz.
$30.00 per shirt - Pre-orders end on March 8th
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$30.00 per shirt - Pre-orders end on March 8th
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E-GIFT CARDS
BOOKS
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War of the Words 2025 - Volume Two
When Words Collide Short Story Contest $15 CAD (published 2025) Guest Judge: Finnian Burnett Contest Winners
Tanya MacIntosh | Stephen James | Andrea Lukatela Honourable Mentions Dana Goldstein | Jodi MacAulay | Shane Kroetsch | Linda Sanche | Cait Yaga Emily MacKinnon | Jennifer Labelle | Helen Gowans | Jennifer Glass |
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WonderShift - Stories of Transformation and Change
AWCS 40th Anniversary Anthology $19.95 CAD (published 2021) Poetry Moni Brar | Weyman Chan | Dymphny Dronyk | Laurie Anne Fuhr | Vivian Hansen | Kimberlee Jones | Pam Medland | Anne Marie Nakagawa | Vina Nguyen | Lori D Roadhouse | Angela Waldie | Marisa Webster Fiction Robert Bose | Susan Forest | Shane Kroetsch | Shirlee Smith Matheson | Erin McDougall | Joy Norstrom | Jason Pearce | Rachelle Pinnow | Doreen Vanderstoop | Robin van Eck | Meghan Victoria | Madelaine Shaw-Wong Creative Non-Fiction Karen Craig | Kim Firmston | Darren Flach | Cari Frame | Barb Howard | Wendy Ireland | Heidi Klaassen | Brian Pearson | Tanya Ramirez | Nicole Roche | Jessica Waite | Laura Wershler |
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The War Memory Project
Edited by Ali Bryan, Vivian Hansen, Robin van Eck $14.95 CAD (published 2019) "War Memory Project contributors are listening to, researching, recording and writing the stories of Canada's veterans, their families, their friends and their survivors. This project is...a way of saying we are paying attention."
Tyler Trafford
author of: Almost a Great Escape Contributors
Lexie Angelo | Bob Canuel | Diana Davidson | John Eubank | Darren Flach | Laurie Anne Fuhr | Vivian Hansen | Richard Harrison | Mohamed Kebbewar | S.J. Logan | Josephine LoRe | Pamela Medland | Anne Metikosh | Kirk Miles | Patricia Paterson | Carolyn Pogue | Daniel Saenz | Lea Storry |Hui (Helen) Sun | Natalie Vacha | Erin Emily Ann Vance | Jean Yungblut | Felicia Zuniga Cover Art Anguish in Bloom Linda Hatfield |
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The Alexandra Reader
$10.00 The word "reader" in a title brings Memories. Our school readers introduced us to places and people that were strange to us, yet whose joys, sorrows, and challenges were strikingly familiar. We read stories, poems and articles that were humorous, sad, or sage; we devoured tales of mystery and adventure, stories so emotional they brought tears both from laughter and sorrow. We read poetic phrases so exquisite that we'd commit them to memory, to have and hold forever. The literary works in The Alexandra Reader are at once spiritual, reflective, humorous, and biting - all the things that make ordinary experiences extraordinary. |
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Member's publications
Pick up off the shelf in the Sabon Salon in the Alexandra Writers Centre, or include the shipping fee to receive it in the mail.
Shipping and Pick Up Information
You can choose to pick up your items or have them delivered. You will be asked to indicate your preference upon purchase.
For deliveries, you MUST include our shipping fee:
For pick-ups, you can collect your item(s) at AWCS on the 4th floor of cSpace Marda Loop (map). We encourage you to call or email us to let us know when you'd like to pass by so we can prepare the item(s) for you beforehand. Our office hours are from Monday-Saturday, 9:30am-3pm MT.
You can choose to pick up your items or have them delivered. You will be asked to indicate your preference upon purchase.
For deliveries, you MUST include our shipping fee:
- $8 for delivering one copy
- additional $7 for delivering multiple copies
For pick-ups, you can collect your item(s) at AWCS on the 4th floor of cSpace Marda Loop (map). We encourage you to call or email us to let us know when you'd like to pass by so we can prepare the item(s) for you beforehand. Our office hours are from Monday-Saturday, 9:30am-3pm MT.
