WGA Holiday Party (Calgary–December 13)

WGA Holiday Party (Calgary) 

Wednesday, December 13th, 2023, 7:00pm to 11:00pm
Joyce on 4th (downstairs in private event room)
506 24th Ave SW, Calgary

Please join us for our 2023 WGA Calgary Holiday Party! There is much to celebrate in the Alberta literary landscape this year, and we hope you’ll come along for a festive evening of food, drinks, prizes and readings from four wonderful local authors. You can expect catering of light finger foods, limited complimentary drink tickets, and a fundraising raffle with amazing prizes from the Calgary literary community.

Accessibility/parking notes:

The downstairs private event room is accessible by elevator in the parkade. Street parking is free after 6:00pm.

This event is free for WGA members and $10 for nonmembers. Please register using the form below.

About the readers:

Lori Hahnel is a Calgary-based author who writes fiction about love, loss, longing, music, history, and the lives of women. Her first novel was loosely based on the formative experience in her teen years of playing in Calgary band The Virgins, in the context of the male-dominated world of 1980’s punk music. She is fascinated by outsiders, misfits, the strange, and the forgotten. Her latest novel Flicker was released in September 2023 by University of Calgary Press.

Marc Herman Lynch is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary in creative writing and former president of filling Station magazine. He works with young writers through the Wordsworth Youth Writing Camp and the Writer in Residence program at Queen Elizabeth Highschool. He’s the double first-place winner of the Grain’s Kloppenburg Hybrid Non-fiction prize. His debut novel, Arborescent, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2020.

Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike is an assistant professor in the Department of English, University of Calgary, Canada. His teaching and research interests include African and African Diaspora literatures, postcolonial literatures, gender and sexuality, cultural studies, and creative writing. His critical works have been published in journals such as Metacritic, Men and Masculinities, Journal of African Cultural Studies, and Postcolonial Text, amongst others. An award-winning creative writer, Umezurike is the author of literary works such as there’s more (2023), Double Wahala, Double Trouble (2021), Wish Maker (2021), and a co-editor of Wreaths for a Wayfarer (2020).   

Nikki Reimer creates poetry, essays, and multimedia artworks that interrogate capitalist structures and consider the variegated forms that grief can take. Carrying forth the feminist complaints and refusals of My Heart is a Rose Manhattan, No Town Called We continues to punch through the veils of complacency and greed that shape the cultures of the petrostate. Other major works include griefwave.com, DOWNVERSE and [sic]. Creative work, non-fiction essays and critical writing have appeared in Arc, Order of the Good Death, Maisonneuve, The Rusty Toque, Capilano Review, and other print and web spaces. Reimer is a non-binary, chronically ill, neurodivergent prairie settler residing on the traditional territories of the people of Treaty 7 in southern Alberta.