Spring 2025

Rest in Peace? Tips for Researching Dead Relatives, a workshop by Anna Shannon, hosted by the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society. ***Next workshop April 28, 2025.

Organizing History: How to Stay Sane While Researching a Historical Novel, a workshop by Anna Shannon, hosted by the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society. ***Next workshop May 26, 2025.

Release the Scaffolding: how to insert historical research without boring your readers to tears, a workshop by Anna Shannon, hosted by the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society. ***Next workshop June 23, 2025.

2025

Hosted a webinar through The Writers’ Union of Canada in celebration of Freedom to Read Week, highlighting 2024 Freedom to Read Award winner journalist Brandi Morin.

2024

Offered workshops through the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society.

2023

North/West Passages reading series, The Writers’ Union of Canada. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Writers’ Union of Canada, this reading series featured the following Alberta writers: Anna Shannon, reading from “The Tenant,” Lori Hahnel (“Flicker”), Katherine Koller (“Winning Chance”), Sharon Butala (“Leaving Wisdom”), paulo da costa (“Trust the Bluer Skies”). The event was hosted by Jacqueline Carmichael, author of “Heard Amid the Guns: True Stories from the Western Front, 1914-1918.”

Writers’ Guild of Alberta Mentorship Program. To celebrate the completion of the mentorship program, apprentices provided a reading of their work-in-progress to the public.

Launch for issue 28 of NōD Magazine at Shelf Life Books. Anna Shannon read her published flash “Turf.”

2021

Literary Taxidermy Reading Series. Anna Shannon read her short story, “The Tenant,” which was a finalist for the 2020 Literary Taxidermy Prize, and was published in 32 Stories.