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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
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CASINO VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
The next AWCS Casino will be held March 12 & 13, 2025 at Cowboy's Casino and we need your support to make sure it's successful.
Choose from a variety of shifts: cashier, chiprunner, countroom staff/supervisor, general manager, and banker. Casino funds make up a significant portion of programming and operations for the AWCS. Last year we received over $80000 to sustain programming, and we hope we can continue that trend, but we need you to make it happen. |
Employment Opportunities
SESSIONAL INSTRUCTORS NEEDED | CONTRACT BASIS | ONGOING
AWCS Programming Cycle
Winter Term - January to March
Spring Term - April to June
Summer Term - July and August
Fall Term - September to December
WE ARE CURRENTLY ACCEPTING COURSE/WORKSHOP PROPOSALS FOR OUR SPRING 2025 TERM
For ONLINE classes, instructors MUST be comfortable using the Zoom video conferencing platform for online class delivery. AWCS will provide instructors with a username and password to access the complete (paid) version of the program.
Most in-person classes will take place at the Alexandra Writers’ Centre in Calgary, however, we are accepting proposals from Edmonton and Lethbridge instructors. If you have a venue already in mind, that would be helpful. If not, we have some connections.
Please feel free to submit as many proposals as you would like. If something doesn’t fit in one term, it might fit in the next.
We are looking for proposals for the following:
We are always in need of:
We are always open to fresh and innovative ideas, sometimes we even come up with them ourselves. If you have something outside these formats that you have tried or would like to try, please feel free to send them our way. You never know. It might be exactly what we were looking for and we didn't even know it.
TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED, THE IDEAL PROPOSALS WILL INCLUDE:
Please feel free to email me with any questions you may have. We are always looking for new writing instructors—If you know anyone who may be interested in teaching for the AWCS, send them our way!
Send your proposals and/or questions to Robin van Eck [email protected]
We are always looking for new writing instructors—If you know anyone who may be interested in teaching for the AWCS, send them our way!
For ONLINE classes, instructors MUST be comfortable using the Zoom video conferencing platform for online class delivery. AWCS will provide instructors with a username and password to access the complete (paid) version of the program.
Most in-person classes will take place at the Alexandra Writers’ Centre in Calgary, however, we are accepting proposals from Edmonton and Lethbridge instructors. If you have a venue already in mind, that would be helpful. If not, we have some connections.
Please feel free to submit as many proposals as you would like. If something doesn’t fit in one term, it might fit in the next.
We are looking for proposals for the following:
- Micro-workshops (2-3 hours in length max)
- Multi-Week Classes (these classes can be 2-3 hours in length and may run from 4-12 weeks) Daytime or evening classes.
- One-Day Workshops or Weekend Intensives (4-5 hours per day)
We are always in need of:
- memoir with workshopping included. (preferred weekly)
- general creative nonfiction and personal essays (preferred weekly)
- novel courses, short story courses or general fiction courses. (preferred weekly)
- poetry
- Genre specific courses – science fiction/fantasy, psychological thriller/horror, romance, historical fiction, dystopian/near future
- Editing Your Own Work
- Submitting – including query letters and synopses
- Short craft-based workshops (character development, setting/world building, POV, voice, dialogue, showing vs telling and so much more)
- Creative exploration and word generation.
We are always open to fresh and innovative ideas, sometimes we even come up with them ourselves. If you have something outside these formats that you have tried or would like to try, please feel free to send them our way. You never know. It might be exactly what we were looking for and we didn't even know it.
TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED, THE IDEAL PROPOSALS WILL INCLUDE:
- Class Title
- Class Blurb/description (not sure what a blurb should look like, please see what we are currently offering.)
- Class Length (number of weeks/hours per class)
- Online or in-person delivery Days and Times available (please give multiple options)
- Instructor Bio
Please feel free to email me with any questions you may have. We are always looking for new writing instructors—If you know anyone who may be interested in teaching for the AWCS, send them our way!
Send your proposals and/or questions to Robin van Eck [email protected]
We are always looking for new writing instructors—If you know anyone who may be interested in teaching for the AWCS, send them our way!
