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Welcome to When Words Collide 2024!

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Opening Event
Friday August 16, 2024 12:30pm - 1:00pm MDT
Bonavista Ballroom
Join us for the 2024 When Words Collide Festival opening event! We'll kick off with a Land Acknowledgement, special announcements, and housekeeping items to ensure a smooth festival experience. Enjoy author readings from our Guests of Honour, Tash McAdam and Jessica Johns. Start the festival with inspiration and literary delight!
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Precious de Leon

Precious is a poet and speculative fiction writer. She writes through the lens of a Filipino Canadian settler in Mohkintsis/Calgary. Following her stint as a business journalist and editor in the Middle East, her creative writing journey started with the 2019 Borderlines Writers Circle... Read More →
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Robin van Eck

Robin writes fiction - literary, contemporary, horror, weird and offbeat - and creative nonfiction. Most recently her work has appeared in WonderShift - 40th Anniversary Anthology of the Alexandra Writers Centre, Forbidden Fruit from The Seventh Terrace and Very Much Alive, stories... Read More →
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Nicole Roche

Nicole is a published author of short stories, articles, and technical papers. She self-published a children’s book titled When I Grow Up. Her passion is in creative writing, and she is working on a novel within the romance genre. She has been an active member of the AWCS community... Read More →
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Jessica Johns

Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, was shortlisted for the Amazon first novel award and won the MacEwan Book of the Year prize.
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Sarah Johnson

Sarah Johnson writes science fiction and fantasy, is a local business owner (Titan Health & Safety), teaches World Building, facilitates the Weekly Write In, is a Co-Chair for the When Words Collide committee and is the current President for The Alexandra Writers Centre Society. Sarah... Read More →
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Tash McAdam

Tash McAdam is a Welsh-Canadian author, activist and educator. Their publications include The Psionics (Nine Star Press), and the Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections Blood Sport and Sink or Swim (Orca Books). They are also featured in multiple anthologies. Tash is a recipient... Read More →
Friday August 16, 2024 12:30pm - 1:00pm MDT
Bonavista Ballroom
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