2024 QWF Awards Calls for Submissions
…replaced our PDF submission forms from previous years with online Submittable forms. Please submit all entries via Submittable. Submit Now via Submittable The A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry The Mavis…
Read moreProtected: Registration for Writing Long: The Novel
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Read moreUpdate on COVID-19 Impact at QWF — March 23, 2020
…Loud,events are also suspended for the time being. Words & Music in-person events will not take place; however, the organizers are planning a live online show in the near future….
Read moreAnnouncing the 2019 QWF Literary Awards Shortlist
…at the Lion d’Or (1676 Ontario St. E.). Each winner will receive $3,000. Gala tickets can be purchased online through Eventbrite here, or from the QWF Office (call 514 933-0878)….
Read moreInsider Tips on How to Promote Your Book
Open to all. The goal of this three-hour online workshop is to boost writers’ confidence in their own ability to promote their work while having fun and avoiding expensive and time-consuming…
Read moreCall for QWF Workshop Proposals for 2024
…for online-only workshops. If the public health situation worsens considerably, we may have to move all workshops to an online format. Typical workshop formats include 1-day Saturday workshops (10:00 a.m….
Read moreSo You’ve Written a Novel – Now What?
…you find online can be woefully misleading, confusing, or at its very worst, fraudulent. This 8-week workshop aims to fully lay out the roadmap to traditional publishing for someone who’s…
Read moreRebecca Morris
Fiction
Rebecca Morris is an award-winning Montreal writer of literary fiction. Her short story “Foreign Bodies” won the 2017 Malahat Review Open Season Award and was the Malahat’s nominee for the 2018 Journey Prize. She was awarded Honourable Mention in Prairie Fire’s 2018 Fiction contest and long-listed for Room Magazine’s 2018 Fiction contest. Her stories have also appeared in Hamilton Arts & Letters, carte blanche, FreeFall, Qwerty and the Antigonish Review.
A former high school teacher, Rebecca is available to lead online writing workshops on character development, point of view, descriptive writing, story structure, and online writing tools and resources. She can read and discuss any of her published stories, which address themes of multiculturalism, alienation, gender roles and social media. She also offers lectures and discussions on creativity, the writing life and different roads to publication. Her first novel will be published in September 2024.
Website: www.rebeccamorris.ca
Call for QWF Workshop Proposals for 2021
…are also occasionally given outside Montreal. Depending on the public health situation in 2021, workshops will take place either in the QWF office, or online. Proposed workshops should be adaptable…
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…
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