When Words Collide 2026

As a member of AWCS, Sandy Navrady is active in a fiction writing group, Free Fall writing and writing non-fiction stories about his risk-taking adventure experiences around the world. He emigrated to Canada in the 1970’s and, with a degree in Urban Land Economics in his toolbox... Read More →

Lareina Abbott is a Métis trickster spirit who pens dark speculative fiction and folklore stories and memoir essays.

She won the 2023 and 2025 Alberta Literary Awards for short story and unpublished essay and is a two time first place winner of the Kemosa Scholarship. Her writing is published in anthologies such as The Malahat Review, Prairie Witch, Solstice in Purgatory, Prairie Fire, The Yellow... Read More →

Being in three writers groups (fiction and nonfiction) keeps me in the arena, as does blogging a weekly essay. I like journalism because I was a reporter for the student newspaper at university, while earning a degree in Community Rehabilitation. I once did a literature tour by following... Read More →