Welcome to the new QWF website!
…& Design, who designed and developed the site, with Melissa Jean Clark undertaking the eCommerce portal. We can’t recommend them highly enough. With this new website, we believe that we’ve…
Read moreThe 2022 Fresh Pages Edition of the Words & Music Show
…Whittley Deleveaux, and Kaleel John, sounds and words by Jason “Blackbird” Selman and Deanna Smith, an on-site exhibition titled Reframing My Mother’s Legacy by Kemba Mitchell, an interdisciplinary dance piece…
Read moreUpdate on COVID-19 Impact at QWF — March 23, 2020
…the calls for submissions in the Awards section of the web site. Finally, The Atwater Library building will be closed to the public indefinitely. You can check their web site…
Read moreQWF and Accessibility
…the toilet. Scent The QWF office is a scent-free environment. Website accessibility To help us make the QWF website a positive place for everyone, we’ve been using the Web Content Accessibility…
Read moreExternal Resources
…the editing and distribution process, and to the credibility of your book. Some interesting further reading here: https://www.cnet.com/news/self-publishing-a-book-25-things-you-need-to-know/ https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/krizia/self-publishing_b_3865125.html https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/mar/21/for-me-traditional-publishing-means-poverty-but-self-publish-no-way https://bulkbooks.com/how-to-publish-a-book Editors Professional editors offer experience, expertise, and objectivity when…
Read moreQWF Jobs: Seeking Full-Time Communications Officer
…in Quebec. For more comprehensive information, visit www.qwf.org. About the Position Working under the supervision of QWF’s Executive Director, the Communications Officer will be responsible for the QWF websites…
Read moreFive Questions for Louise Abbott
…(2008). Rural Route Communications: www.ruralroutecommunications.com Studio Georgeville: www.studiogeorgeville.com You work across a range of disciplines, including non-fiction writing, photography, and documentary film. How do you think these different disciplines feed…
Read moreAnnouncing the finalists for the QWF Prize for Playwriting
…the dark when called upon. And yet, Instant also embraces the importance of hope, of leaving young audiences with a possible way out of that same darkness.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_i8c9kmL38 Congratulations to…
Read moreAnnouncing the finalists for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
…poetic, but never belabours the moment, and manages to write about love and hunger in a way that embeds them in the concrete, the known.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe8qLO7meEA Congratulations to all the…
Read moreAnnouncing the finalists for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction
…life into a ‘two-dimensional cut-out Riel,’ a historical actor who is more than the person popular historical narratives have allowed him to be.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNWLtcyFdfs Congratulations to all the finalists and…
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