The Fall 2020 QWF Workshops Are Open for Registration—All Online!
The Fall 2020 QWF Workshops are now open for registration! This season, all of our workshops will be held online via Zoom. We are thrilled to present workshops on fiction, non-fiction, long-form fiction,…
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…Oct 14-28 10 am-1 pm The Art of Rejection: A Masterclass (online only) Elisa Bassist Tuesday, Oct 17 7-9 pm (online only) Writing Historical Non-Fiction Julian Sher Sunday, Oct 22…
Read moreQWF Announces the 2022 QWF Awards Shortlists, Including New Spoken Word Prize
…[email protected]. For information about the shortlisted authors, including photos and book summaries, visit the QWF Literary Database at http://quebecbooks.qwf.org. BUY YOUR TICKETS -30- Media Inquiries: Gina Roitman (514) 924-9836 [email protected] …
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The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction in 2017Holiday Book Fair 2021 Annual festival celebrates Quebec’s English-language publishers and writers (November 16-18)
…Literary Translators’ Association of Canada, the Violet Hour reading series, Babar Books, the Montreal Gazette, Penguin Random House Canada, as well as our invaluable bookseller partner, Paragraphe Bookstore. -30- Media contact: Christopher DiRaddo 514-806-5087 [email protected]…
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…
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…How to Edit Your Own Prose which will both be held exclusively online. If all goes according to plan, we will pilot a hybrid model to enable one or two…
Read moreQWF Policy for Safer Spaces and Events
…community about interactions between QWF’s members at social and networking events, the Shared Spaces Committee (previously the Safer Spaces Committee) was formed to initiate a policy to cover these situations….
Read moreElisabeth Blair
Poetry
Elisabeth Blair is a poet, editor, and workshop leader with an extensive background in music and the visual arts. Her publications include full-length collection because God loves the wasp (Unsolicited Press 2022), two chapbooks—We He She/It (Dancing Girl Press 2016) and without saying (Ethel Press 2020)—and poems in a variety of journals, including Harpur Palate, Feminist Studies, cream city review, and Juked. Her online education hub, lullabies & alarms, explores the craft of poetry. In 2022 she received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to complete her second book, a poetry novel.
She enjoys leading poetry workshops on craft-centered topics like poetry revision, improvisation, persona poetry, rhetorical figures of speech, erasure poetry, sonic devices, and graphic arrangement on the page. She’s also available to lead discussions on in-depth topics, including approaches to writing poems about trauma, and how to engage with readers as conversation partners rather than as audience members.
Websites: www.elisabethblair.net & www.lullabiesalarms.com
Announcing the finalists for the QWF Prize for Playwriting
…of Infinithéâtre’s “Pipeline” series. The jury was composed of playwrights Pablo Felices-Luna of Winnipeg, Jackie Maxwell of Toronto, and Djanet Sears of Toronto. The four finalists in the category are:…
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