The 2020 QWF Mentorship Program
The 2020 QWF Mentorship Program is open for applications. Deadline for applications – both FOR a mentor and to BE a mentor – is Tuesday, October 15, 2019.
To apply FOR a mentor.
If you are Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Colour, you may be eligible for The Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship.
To apply TO BE a mentor.
Joanne Latimer, Anna Leventhal, Raquel Rivera, Gerald Wexler, Ashley Duong, Heather Leighton, Anya Leibovitch and Shelagh Plunkett. Not pictured: Shannon Webb-Campbell & Claudia Janampa Huamán (poetry) , and Daniel Canty & Carla Stewart (fiction).
The QWF Mentorship program is designed to help promising emerging writers
Over a period of four months (March to June), each mentee gets one-on-one guidance and support from a professional writing mentor. At the end of the mentorship period, there is a public
Mentors are expected to devote 35 to 40 hours to reading and responding to their protégé’s work and giving guidance towards the goal of publication or production. Mentees are expected to commit a minimum of 15 to 20 hours per month to the program.
The Fresh Pages Initiative: The Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship
The Quebec Writers’ Federation is delighted to announce the call for applications for the inaugural Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship. The mentorship, which is a component of QWF’s “Fresh Pages” initiative, is designed to help an aspiring writer or playwright who is Indigenous, Black or a person of colour to develop their literary writing.
The 2020 mentorship will go to a Quebec-based poet who has already demonstrated an interest in literary writing and who has at least ten poems completed or in progress (Other genres will be addressed in subsequent years, should funding allow.) The selected writer will work with their mentor over the course of four months (March through June, 2020) and participate in a public reading in June 2020. More information here
