ONLINE Open Mic Prep
Third Wednesday of every month
6pm-7:30pm PT | 7pm-8:30pm MT | 8pm-9:30pm CT | 9pm-10:30pm ET
Upcoming 2025 Sessions:
September 17 | October 15 | November 19 | December 17
Upcoming 2026 Sessions:
January 21 | February 18 | March 18 | April 15 | May 20 | June 17
This drop-in is free for everyone.
Preparing to share your work or works in progress? Want to make the most of your time in front of a live audience?
Facilitated monthly by writer and creative producer SallyV Truss, Open Mic Prep is where you'll meet fellow writers online and practice presenting your prose and/or poems in a safe, encouraging space.
This is a space for sharing prose and poetry, exchanging feedback, and developing your presentation style.
Bring a few new works and works-in-progress poems...something you’re just going crazy to try out/to share!
Welcome to all AWCS members and those who are curious and considering membership.
This is an interactive online class using the Zoom web platform.
SallyV Truss has been on the loose ever since she ‘ran away and joined the circus’ of travelling folk singers in the late 1960s. From Highway 22, her world expanded to include Toronto, Halifax, New Orleans, Huston, Vancouver – and many roads in between – by way of coffeehouses, concert halls and bars.
Other roads took her to work in media and communications with CBC and ACCESS TV followed by glorious days at the Banff Centre, Kananaskis Country, Fairmont Banff Springs, Calgary Opera, and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.
SallyV now belongs to a group of adventurous female elders – who have been pushing barriers, travelling through the shadows, dancing in the lights - living interesting lives.
Ultimately, SallyV is a storyteller. Her voice is entertaining, evocative – thoughtful. Her collection, HWY 22 invites the reader into her journey and in doing so, brings the reader home to their own.
Some other recent projects include story-editor and project management of Jan Truss’s Paper Bird, John Taplin’s Easier Said than Done, and the tribute collection of Joyce Doolittle: a community telling. Sally’s Skipping Song was included in Shaun Hunter’s Calgary Through the Eyes of Writers, a surprising honour. Her poems, rants & songspeil are found in the collection FATES and HWY 22.
