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,…
Read moreDaniel Allen Cox
Fiction, Nonfiction
Daniel Allen Cox is the author of I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness, finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023. His four novels have been nominated for the Lambda Literary, Ferro-Grumley, and ReLit awards, and Mouthquake was one of twenty-seven works selected for inclusion in QuébeQueer, a fifty-year overview of queer cultural production in Quebec. Daniel’s essays have appeared in The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, The Malahat Review, Maisonneuve, and elsewhere, and have been recognized by Best Canadian Essays, The Best American Essays, and the Canadian National Magazine Awards. Daniel’s work deals with themes of queer coming-of-age, exploring the underground life of cities, navigating art and literary scenes, embracing stuttering and other types of unusual language patterns, and freeing oneself from religious and cult indoctrination. He has been a creative writing instructor and mentor for many years, and has spoken at Université de Montréal, McGill University, Concordia University, Northeastern Illinois University, Columbia College Chicago, Wilfrid Laurier University, and California College of the Arts.
Daniel offers three workshops for a CEGEP setting:
- Starting a Work of Short Nonfiction: Find the best container for your material and write first drafts freely to get your project off the ground.
- Reading to Be a Writer: Survey the landscape of the literary journals that will have an impact on your career and learn to be judicious with what you devote your reading time to.
- Finding My Voice As a Writer: I’ll talk about my path to finding my voice as a queer writer who stutters, and we’ll talk about ways to find your own frequency
Five Questions for: Daniel Allen Cox
…His essays have appeared in The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Electric Literature, The Malahat Review, Maisonneuve, and elsewhere, and have been recognized by Best Canadian Essays, The Best American Essays, and the National Magazine Awards. Daniel is…
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…and over again! During this one-day workshop, we will attempt to solve the puzzle of the picture book: What stories are best-suited to the genre? What are the conventions of…
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…a period of four months (February 1st, 2023 to May 31st, 2023) and to take part in a public reading in Montreal in June. Established professional Canadian literary translators who…
Read moreDoctor’s study of health care for Indigenous children wins two 2021 Quebec Writers’ Federation literary awards
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Read moreThe Art of the Short Story
…unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it, this workshop may transition to a purely online model. Open to writers of all levels, this 10-week workshop…
Read moreQUEBEC WRITERS’ FEDERATION ANNOUNCES 2021 QWF LITERARY AWARDS SHORTLIST
…The new QWF College Writers Award will be awarded for the best short story, poem, or work of nonfiction written in English between August 15, 2020 and June 4, 2021…
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