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Welcome to When Words Collide 2024!

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Do I Need a Mentor?
Saturday August 17, 2024 5:00pm - 5:50pm MDT
Kananaskis 1
This panel will explore the potential benefits of mentorship, what to expect from it (and what not to), and how to decide if you're ready to take this exciting step on your writing journey. Information about formal mentorship opportunities, such as those offered through the Writer's Guild of Alberta, the Humber school for Writers, and of course, through AWCS, will be shared, so you can evaluate what program is the best fit for your you.
Moderators
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Katie O’Connor

Katie O'Connor is a sweet contemporary romance author who resides in Calgary, Alberta. She has over 30 published titles including an author career planning workbook. She has been traditionally and independently published. She is a writing mentor as well as a romance acquisitions editor... Read More →
Speakers
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Ali Bryan

Ali Bryan is an award-winning novelist and creative nonfiction writer who explores the what-ifs, the wtfs and the wait-a-minutes of every day. She crafts stories about the downtrodden and disenfranchised, the brokenhearted, and the vulnerable. About lovers and losers, mothers and... Read More →
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Dianne Koebel-Pede

Dianne is a former K-9 educator, school counsellor, and Inclusive Education Coordinator. She loves learning and sharing her experiences to help others. In 2023, she was honoured to receive the Writers' Guild of Alberta Mary Bell Scholarship. Dianne participated in the WGA 2024 Mentorship... Read More →
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Marie Powell

Marie Powell’s castle-hopping adventures across North Wales resulted in her medieval fantasy series Last of the Gifted: Spirit Sight and Water Sight, set in 13th C Wales. Marie is also the author of 40+ children’s books with such publishers as Scholastic Education and Amicus... Read More →
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Sarah L. Pratt

Sarah L. Pratt is an editor, publisher, teacher, bookseller, and queer fictioneer living on Treaty 7 land in the foothills of Alberta. She is an AMPA finalist and the author of Suicide Stitch: Eleven Tales (EMP Publishing), and the dystopian thriller Infractus (Coffin Hop Press... Read More →
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Lynda Williams

Lynda Williams (she/her) is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers Creative Writing program, where she studied under the mentorship of Danila Botha. The resulting collection of stories is forthcoming from Guernica Editions in 2025. Her work has appeared in Grain, the Humber Literary... Read More →
Saturday August 17, 2024 5:00pm - 5:50pm MDT
Kananaskis 1
  Panel Discussion, Creative Process

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