QWF Announces the 2022 QWF Awards Shortlists, Including New Spoken Word Prize
…& Music Show. All Spoken Word finalists will perform at AELAQ’s Holiday Book Fair on November 4, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. and their performances will be preserved online via the…
Read moreThe QWF Spoken Word Prize
…Book Fair in November 2022 and their performances will be preserved online via the SpokenWeb Archive of the Present. Eligible Applicants Quebec-based spoken word artists, storytelling artists, and literary performance…
Read moreThe QWF Spoken Word Prize
…Book Fair in November 2022 and their performances will be preserved online via the SpokenWeb Archive of the Present. Eligible Applicants Quebec-based spoken word artists, storytelling artists, and literary performance…
Read moreWinter & Spring 2023 QWF Workshops Are Now Open for Registration!
…registration online by credit card or PayPal. If you are unable to pay by credit card or PayPal, go ahead and reserve your place online and select the “pay by cheque” option…
Read moreThe Spring 2021 QWF Workshops Are Open for Registration!
The Spring 2021 QWF Workshops are now open for registration! This season, all of our workshops will be held online via Zoom, except for Writing with the River with Elise…
Read morecarte blanche
carte blanche is QWF’s online literary journal. It was founded in 2004 by members of a Quebec Writers’ Federation workshop. Since then it has grown into an internationally recognized literary…
Read moreCall for Submissions: 2023 QWF Spoken Word Prize
…November 2023 and their performances will be preserved online via the SpokenWeb Archive of the Present The 2023 QWF Spoken Word Prize is currently open for submissions. Read below to…
Read moreCall for Submissions: The Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize
…preserved online via the SpokenWeb Archive of the Present Eligible Applicants The prize is open to Quebec-based spoken word artists, storytelling artists, and literary performance artists working in English in…
Read moreEdeet Ravel
Children’s & YA lit, Fiction, Nonfiction, Other
Edeet Ravel has written over ten award-winning novels for adults, children and young adults. Her books have been translated into several languages and her YA novel The Saver was adapted for the screen. Her most recent book, A Boy Is Not a Bird, is based on the childhood experiences of her grade-five teacher, who was exiled to Siberia with his mother during World War II. Edeet (pronounced ee-DEET, rhymes with ‘be street’) would be very happy to answer questions from students about all and any aspect of writing and publishing prose fiction, including process, genres (memoir, graphic novels, fantasy, etc), producing one’s own books, online scams, contest scams, writing blocks, research, choosing settings and subjects, copyright, posting writing online, dreams of making millions, editing one’s own work, using a pen name, writing for self vs writing to be read, writing for children, writing for young adults.
Mining Personal History to Enrich Our Short Fiction
…Munro, from her short story collection The Moons of Jupiter. The story can also be found online with a Google search, on the website of The New Yorker. Important Note:…
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