What Is GET LIT?
Think of it as a mini-conference. A jam-packed Saturday of workshops, blue pencils, networking and community building.
Each month will focus on a different genre or a different element of craft or the literary world. Hear from industry professionals: writers, agents, publishers. Have your work reviewed, meet other writers all working in your same genre.
What are you waiting for?
Each month will focus on a different genre or a different element of craft or the literary world. Hear from industry professionals: writers, agents, publishers. Have your work reviewed, meet other writers all working in your same genre.
What are you waiting for?
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The Short Story State of Mind
From micro-fiction to longer shorts, short stories have been making a comeback. With award-winning authors like Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, there is so much to love and learn. Spend a day Getting Lit on short stories. Learn craft, process, publishing and so much more. Guaranteed to put you in that Short Story State of Mind. May 27, 2023 9-5pm AWCS Members: $150 | Non-Members: $200 Keynote & Presenters paulo da costa | Lee Kvern | Leslie Greentree | Sarah Pratt | Rob Bose Note: Participation in Get Lit is entirely IN PERSON. Full schedule with times will be available to participants. REGISTRATION OPENING SOON! |
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Keynote & Workshops
details coming soon
Keynote & Presenters
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paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in Canada. He is the recipient of the 2020 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction, the 2003 Commonwealth First Book Prize for the Canada-Caribbean Region, the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize and the Canongate Prize for short-fiction. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published widely in literary magazines around the world and translated into Italian, Spanish, Serbian, Slovenian and Portuguese.
Learning to Shave, Learning to Leave, a book of creative non-fiction, is forthcoming with University of Regina Press. https://www.paulodacosta.ca/ |
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Lee Kvern is a Canadian author of short stories and novels. Her stories in 7 Ways to Sunday have garnered various literary awards including the CBC Literary Prize. Afterall was selected for regional Canada Reads and nominated for the Alberta Books Awards. The Matter of Sylvie was nominated for Alberta Book Awards and the Ottawa Relit Award. Lush Triumphant finalist and recent Best of the Net nominee. Her work has been produced for CBC Radio, and has been published in numerous literary magazines across Canada and the US. She has currently finished her fourth novel Catch You on the Flipside, an international thriller.
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Leslie Greentree is the author of four books – Not the Apocalypse I Was Hoping For (University of Calgary Press, Fall 2022), the award-winning short story collection A Minor Planet for You, and two poetry books: go-go dancing for Elvis, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Prize for Poetry, and guys named Bill. Leslie has won CBC literary competitions for short fiction and poetry, and the Sarah Selecky 2013 Little Bird short fiction competition.
Leslie is also a playwright, actor, and occasional essayist. “Tom Petty Just Isn’t There for You: Riffs on Waiting” was written before his death, and appears in Waiting: an anthology of essays (University of Alberta Press, 2018). Her essay, “Pink Smock Stories,” was shortlisted for a 2019 Writers Guild of Alberta award and the 2020 Humber Creative Nonfiction award. |
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Sarah L. Pratt is a curly hair gladiator, ultra marathoner, literary events wrangler, and queer fictioneer. Her stories have appeared in Vastarien, Room Magazine, Plenitude, On Spec, Shock Totem, Crossed Genres, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Vol. 2 (Red Room Press), and the Bram Stoker Award nominated Dark Visions 1 (Grey Matter Press) and Twisted Book of Shadows (Haverhill Press). She’s the author of Suicide Stitch: Eleven Tales (EMP Publishing) the blasphemous apocalyptic thriller, Infractus (Coffin Hop Press), and co-author of Wall of Fire and co-author/co-curator of Forbidden Fruit (The Seventh Terrace).
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Robert Bose grew up on a farm in southern Alberta spending every free moment reading Fritz Leiber, Karl Edward Wagner, and whatever pulp and dark fiction he could get his dirty hands on. He’s the editor of a variety of books and anthologies for Coffin Hop Press and The Seventh Terrace, and the author of myriad short stories including the fiendish collection, Fishing with the Devil, Terrace VII: Wall of Fire, and Terrace VI: Forbidden Fruit. When not writing, editing, publishing and running unfathomable long ultramarathons, he spends his time pestering his troublesome children, and working as a software architect for a small economic forecasting software company.
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