The Spring 2020 Workshops Are Open for Registration!
The Spring 2020 QWF Workshops are now open for registration! As with our Fall 2019 session, participants can book and pay online. We’re offering a mix of 8- and 10-week evening workshops during the week, and several Saturday workshops … More info Read more
Read moreAnnouncing the QWF Fresh Pages Class of 2020!
Congratulations to the first group of writers to participate in QWF’s new Fresh Pages initiative, which is designed to create opportunities for promising writers and playwrights who, because of their ethnic or racial profile, have faced systemic and/or financial barriers … More info Read more
Read moreIntroducing Marian Rebeiro
For this special edition of “5 questions for,” Audrey Meubus spoke with Marian Rebeiro, our new Membership Services and Communications Coordinator. Marian has a degree in Art History and English Language and Literature from Carleton University in Ottawa, as … More info Read more
Read moreGift Ideas for the Writer in Your Life
Thoughtful gifts for those who have a way with words Winter came early to Quebec this year, announcing the also fast-approaching holiday season. If you’re stumped on what to get the writers in your life, here are a few … More info Read more
Read moreGet Lit! Rapid-Fire Reading, Ricochet Writing – The Story!
As part of AELAQ and QWF’s Get Lit!’ series at the Salon du livre de Montréal, on Wednesday, November 20, eighteen of the province’s hottest writers and spoken word performers got fast! They read from their most engaging work—for … More info Read more
Read more“Water Lines” Anthology Launch
Water Lines, a new anthology edited by Angela Leuk, in collaboration with filmmaker Louise Abbott, has gathered the new writing of 70 Eastern Townships of Quebec authors. “In this anthology, 70 English-language poets and prose writers from the Eastern … More info Read more
Read moreWinners of the 2019 QWF Awards
The 2019 Quebec Writers’ Federation’s Awards Gala took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at Cabaret Lion d’Or, uniting the province’s literary community in a celebration of some of the best literature published by Quebec writers in the past year. The … More info Read more
Read moreIntroducing… the Max Margles Writing Residency!
In August 2020, an English-language fiction writer from Quebec will spend one month in St Patrick’s Park Lodge, Dublin, Ireland, for the first-ever Max Margles Writing Residency! The successful applicant will spend four weeks in the Lodge: a self-contained … More info Read more
Read moreQWF and AELAQ’s “Get Lit!” events at the 2019 Salon du livre
Mercredi 20 Novembre 2019 | 18h00 – 18h45 L’Agora GRAND SLAM DE TRADUCTION // GRAND TRANSLATION SLAM (AELAQ) Deux duos de traducteurs·trices littéraires se livrent un combat de mots, en parfait état livresque. Comment est-ce que chaque choix de … More info Read more
Read moreJob Opportunity – Membership Services and Communications Coordinator
QWF Seeks Coordinator, Membership Services and Communications The Quebec Writers’ Federation seeks an organized, positive, and detail-oriented person to assist the Executive Director in day-to-day management of the organization and to assume responsibility for membership services and communications. This … More info Read more
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