2013 Membership
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57% Full
There are 68 days remaining until the next price increase.
When Words Collide is a festival for readers, writers, artists and publishers of commercial and literary fiction, including genre, YA, Childrens books, and Poetry. Would you like to know more?
Current adult membership rate is $55 CAD. Prices will increase on August 1, 2013. You can register online, use our registration form or, in Calgary, stop in at The Sentry Box at 1835 - 10th Avenue SW to purchase your membership.
When Words Collide,
c/o The Sentry Box,
1835 - 10th Avenue SW,
Calgary, Alberta,
T3C 0K2, Canada.
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| This Year's Guests | Patricia Briggs | Fantasy and Urban Fantasy |
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| Michael Cassutt | TV/Film Scriptwriter, Producer and Science Fiction Author |
| David B. Coe / D.B. Jackson | Fantasy, Mystery and Historical Fiction |
| Barbara Fradkin | Mysteries |
| Shirlee Smith Matheson | Young Adult and Biography |
| Jamis Paulson | Editor, Turnstone Press and Ravenstone Press |
When Words Collide has again been nominated for an Aurora Award, Canada's top science fiction and fantasy award. Please, visit their site and join the Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association so you can vote for this year's nominees.
Our next podcast installment, Romance Through the Ages is now available. Enjoy!
Due to a software glitch (my story and I'm sticking to it), the contact information for those wonderful people who signed up to be volunteers in the past few weeks has been lost. If you have volunteered but not heard from our volunteer co-ordinator, please sign up again. Thank you!
ARWA is offering a special, three hour workshop on Friday, August 9 from 9 AM to 12 PM (just prior to the festival opening). The subject is Writing Sexual Tension, Heightening Your Readers' Satisfaction. Not just for romance writers!
Our planning meetings are usually the second Sunday of the month. The next one will be May 19. Meetings (from now on) will run from 10 AM to noon in the upstairs community room of the Macleod Trail Co-op (just south of Heritage Dr.) 8818 Macleod Trail SE. If you would like to help us plan for next year's festival or just check out what is going on, please drop in.
Our next podcast installment, Popcorn Theory of Success is now available. Enjoy!
The program for the When Words Collide 2013 is currently being developed. Please check this PDF for current information. Updates to the document will happen monthly.
Our next podcast installment, An Hour with Rebecca Moesta is now available. Enjoy!
Our planning meetings are usually the second Sunday of the month. The next one will be March 10. Meetings (from now on) will run from 10 AM to noon in the upstairs community room of the Macleod Trail Co-op (just south of Heritage Dr.) 8818 Macleod Trail SE. If you would like to help us plan for next year's festival or just check out what is going on, please drop in.
When Words Collide is hosting an academic colloquium on August 10, 2013. We welcome presentations that explore creative writing pedagogy, genre writing in academic settings, and critical investigations of genre works, including mystery, science fiction, romance, western, horror, fantasy, young adult, and others. Please see here for detailed information.
If you want to take a writing workshop, now is your chance! Workshops are open to registered member of When Words Collide only.
Our next podcast installment, Murder and Mayhem — Canadian Style is now available. Enjoy!
Our planning meetings are usually the second Sunday of the month. The next one will be January 13. Meetings (from now on) will run from 10 AM to noon in the upstairs community room of the Macleod Trail Co-op (just south of Heritage Dr.) 8818 Macleod Trail SE. If you would like to help us plan for next year's festival or just check out what is going on, please drop in.
On Monday, November 19th and Tuesday, November 20th at 7pm each night there will be readings and Q & A with Karen Dudley and Chadwich Ginther. Their books are being published by Ravenstone press. Ravenstone is an imprint of Turnstone press (one of our guests for next year).
Karen's book is a new historical fantasy novel, Food for the Gods.
Chadwich's book is his debut urban fantasy novel, Thunder Road.
The Monday night's reading will take place at Sentry Box, 1835 10th Ave. S.W.
The Tuesday night's reading will take place at the Calgary Public Library - Louise Riley Branch, 1904 14th Avenue N.W.
Our next podcast installment, Humour in Fiction is now up. is now available. Enjoy!
Wynterblue Publishing is holding their annual 73-hour novella writing contest for Canadian authors. See their web site for details.
Our planning meetings are usually the second Sunday of the month. The next one will be in December. There is no meeting in November. Meetings (from now on) will run from 10 AM to noon in the upstairs community room of the Macleod Trail Co-op (just south of Heritage Dr.) 8818 Macleod Trail SE. If you would like to help us plan for next year's festival or just check out what is going on, please drop in.
Our next planning meeting is Sunday October 14th from 12 - 2 PM in the upstairs community room of the Macleod Trail Co-op (just south of Heritage Dr.) 8818 Macleod Trail SE. If you would like to help us plan for next year's festival or just check out what is going on, please drop in.
Our next podcast installment, Beyond the Bedroom - There's More to Romance Than Sex is now available. Enjoy!
Thanks to everyone who came out to the BBQ. A fun time was had by all and we raised just shy of $1,000 toward expenses for next year's guests.
Planning for the 3rd Edition of When Words Collide (2013) is underway. Stay tuned for developments as they happen. If you would like to help us plan for next year or be one of our volunteers next summer, please let us know via our volunteers' page.
The online registration system is now active. If you didn't register at this year's festival you can now do so in the comfort of your own home or office. Just don't register while driving. We'd like you to get there in one piece.
On Saturday, 2012 September 8, you too can spend a delightful afternoon stuffing yourself with food, participating in our immense book raffle and supporting When Words Collide 2013.
All for the paltry pittance of ten tiny dollars.
Good food, good company, good books and a plethora of warm fuzzies: What could be better?
The barbecue will begin at noon and go until about 4 P.M. The location is the Richmond Meadows Townhouse Complex Party Room (centre building), just north of the Richmond Road Calgary Co-op store. Please note that you must park on 39th Street or in the Co-op parking lot: There is no visitor parking on site.
I'm revamping the online registration system so please be patient if you are just dying to register for next year. It will be up in a couple of days.
When Words Collide is over for another year but don't be sad — we'll be back in 2013: bigger and better than ever.
Thank you to all our guests, our panelists and our members for making 2012 an even more successful year than our first.
Information on the next When Words Collide will start appearing in the next few days. Stay tuned!
