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A vibrant and inclusive community organization that develops, supports, and promotes those writing in English in Quebec.
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QWF: Writing in the Margins
Get an inside look at the vibrant world of QWF through the voices of Executive Director Lori Schubert and three engaging members.
Watch the videoIntroducing: The Quebec Writers Out Loud Fund
A travel fund to support Professional QWF members’ readings outside the province. Open to applications from eligible host organizations. Continue reading
Five Questions for: Fred Anderson
Fred Anderson is a writer, an activist, a finalist for the 2025 QWF Literary Awards, and QWF’s latest featured member. Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Fred Anderson joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager and became field secretary … More info Read more
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Daniel’s support, and particularly his belief in the quality of my work, has been an incredible boon to my writing, leading me to double—nay, triple!—my efforts toward completion. As the mentorship program draws to a close, the memoir is about 70% complete and I have finalized a book proposal that will allow me to start pitching the book to agents and publishers over the coming months.
Emira Tufo, 2024 Mentorship Program
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Writers in the Community
QWF’s Writers in the Community program pairs small groups of young people with a professional writer or literary performance artist who can teach them and, more important, motivate them, to use language to express themselves in productive ways.
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The QWF Literary Database of Quebec English-language Authors is an ever-expanding online directory of over 2000 books by over 1100 Quebec writers publishing books in English.
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QWF’s online literary journal founded in 2004 by members of a Quebec Writers’ Federation workshop.
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