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IN loving memory - Inge Bremer-Trueman

5/4/2024

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​We are heartbroken to learn of the passing of Inge Bremer-Trueman on April 4, 2024.
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Inge loved the Alexandra Writers Centre where she was a dedicated volunteer and advocate from 2005 until our move from Inglewood in late 2016. When she was passionate about something, you knew it. Good or bad. She loved writing, hated the publishing process, loved babies and absolutely abhorred Alberta winter. She and a crew of former AWCS members formed the Crabapple Mews Collective, where she went on to publish three books of fiction. Even though she became less active with the AWCS in later years, she remained a dedicated member until 2020.
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If you knew her, remember her fondly, keep writing and raise a glass of your drink of choice and share a memory of Inge in the comments. 

If you didn’t, raise a glass anyway and buy her books. Even though she is gone, Inge’s words will live on, forever.
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Clover, Number 2463 by Alexina Dalgetty

11/6/2023

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I am the girl with the sweater covered in green paint - Clover, Number 2463. Stop! says the art
teacher. It’s a mountain of sweater, almost brown with hints of mustard. Hers. Last summer my
mother slipped out of the picture, no longer dipping into sleep in front of the summer fire pit, no
more lisping breath, no more guttering sighs. Her smells - ill woman, stale wool, excessive
deodorant to mask the creeping illness - lingering. A startling departure, despite me and Dad
waiting for it, waiting since before he went to jail for selling stolen goods till after his release,
from before I went to Junior High, and here I am in high school. 

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Irony by Belle Auld

4/6/2023

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​Excerpt from novella: There Has Always Been Water in the Crowsnest Basement


Skookumchuck
I arrive at my first train station not knowing how to hoop up train orders.


You stand beside the track with the paper orders inside a wooden hoop. When the train goes by, you hold up one hoop and the engineer sticks his arm out. You let go when his arm goes through the hoop. Then when the caboose goes by—same thing for the conductor, only you don’t have to aim so high. Then you go running down the track to retrieve the hoops.

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Excerpt: The Full Catastrophe - A Memoir by Karen Lee

28/5/2023

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Duncan was in crisis. The oncologist ordered he be taken to the intensive care unit on another floor in the London Clinic. I followed the gurney down the hall
and into the elevator. When we arrived on the new floor, I was asked to wait behind a large white screen while he was lifted onto the bed. The doctor came
out from behind the screen.

“Is this the end?” I asked.


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Two Truths and a Lie by Suzn Morgan

14/5/2023

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​Wearing a face full of brown whiskers tinged with gold, after three weeks away, my twenty-two-year-old son Don returned home. Thrilled to see him, I couldn’t help noting his eyes seemed tired, a heaviness in his steps, rather like a farmer coming in after a long harvest day. He enthusiastically recounted stories, some hair-raising, about working to build houses in a rural village near Coban, Guatemala, with Habitat for Humanity. “I had the most fun I’ve ever had!” he said.
Although he had just arrived the evening before, I urgently needed to tell him about something important. The past many months, we had been working to strengthen our relationship, and in that vein, I felt compelled not to hesitate, but to be honest and direct. If I held back, I might never have the nerve to tell him what had happened.

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the heaviness of water by jason pearce

7/5/2023

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a novel excerpt
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My eyes never cared for water. I learned to swim grinding my lids tighter than the pine-tarred seam of a skin boot with double sinew stitching. Fingers groping the cold as my arms flexed against currents. My first proper stroke ended with my forehead butting the rockface beneath the overfalls. My brothers pulled me out by my armpits, snorting at the crooked gash across my nose.
           

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tHE BLUE MAN BY ROBIN VAN ECK

30/4/2023

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In August of 1990, during a small ceremony in her living room in Cranbrook, with sage smoke choking the Indian-spiced air, my mother remarried. The guests: me, my seven-year-old brother, and two step brothers. Ceremony officiated by the yellow man, (as I called him then) a local artist called Man Woman. He always dressed in yellow, kind of artsy fartsy with tattoos head to toe: swastikas inked on his arms, hands and feet and a flaming vagina on his forehead.

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Hand inside a bead bag, cultishly clutching a string of japa beads, deep in mantra meditation. Twenty minutes a day. Minimum. Two rounds of japa.
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna
Krishna, Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama
Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare

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COMING SOON - APRIL 30, 2023

14/4/2023

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  • Home
  • About
    • The History
    • The Mission
    • The Team
    • Board of Directors >
      • Meet our Board of Directors
      • AWCS Staff / Board Hub
    • Employment & Volunteer Opportunities
    • Our Donors and Sponsors
    • Contact
  • What We Offer
    • The Sabon Literary Salon
    • Sabon Schedule & Events Calendar
    • Courses
    • Workshops
    • Featured Events
    • The AWCS Community
    • Programs & Services
    • When Words Collide 2025
    • Corporate Programming
    • Youth Programs
    • Books, Gifts and More...
  • Members
    • Membership
    • Free or Low-Cost Programs & Drop Ins for Members
    • J Michael Fay Subsidy Program
    • Resources for Writers
    • Book Your Space
    • AWCS Library Loans Form
    • Member Showcase >
      • Many Voices Winners
      • A Poem a Day
      • Two Truths and a Lie