Thaioronióhte Dan David – The Man of Endless Winters
…I have ever met. I interviewed him shortly after he was awarded the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF), and I found myself trying to convince…
Read moreFive Questions for Gillian Sze
…them to finally want to write my own. Toronto artist, Sue Todd, will be providing illustrations and the book will be published by Orca Book in Spring 2021. Thank you,…
Read moreCall for Nominations for the 2023 Judy Mappin Community Award
…underground publishing and dedicated service to Montreal’s independent writing community 2020: Jan Jorgensen, for her hard work, leadership, and longstanding personal commitment to community in all its forms 2021: Richard…
Read moreLinda Leith
Fiction, Nonfiction
Born in Belfast, Linda Leith is a Montreal novelist and essayist who has lived in London, Basel, Paris, and Budapest. Her seven books include The Desert Lake (2007), the memoirs Marrying Hungary (2008) and Writing in the Time of Nationalism (2010; French translation, 2014), and, most recently, The Girl from Dream City: A Literary Life (2021).
Linda founded the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in 1998 and the publishing house Linda Leith Publishing in 2011. Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 for her “contribution to Canada,” she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in November 2020 “for connecting the country’s Anglophone and Francophone communities and for fostering creativity and intercultural understanding through a literary festival.”
Linda has 25 years of experience teaching post-secondary students. In the classroom, she combines a reading of short excerpts from her work with a discussion of living in two or more languages, of displacement, and of writing about your own experiences as a child and adolescent.
https://lindaleithauthor.com/
Five Questions for: Mirabel
…2021. With the support of a federal grant for local journalism, I was then working as a news reporter for Parc-Extension News. That summer, I investigated a COVID-19 outbreak in…
Read moreCall for Submissions: Font Magazine (QWF Members Only)
…Please also include a brief bio in your email. To learn more, please read the call for submissions from Font below. Font wants you! Since its first issue in November 2021, Font has thrown…
Read moreRoen Higgins
Roen Higgins is an award-winning spoken word poet, educator, and speaker. As the founder of The Elevated Creative, her mission is to elevate others through creative literacy and help get them unstuck and tap into their genius zone. She is dedicated to planting the seed that creativity should be fostered, valued, and celebrated at home and school. Dubbed as Blu’Rva, Roen is known as a repeat winner in the scene of improv & slam poetry and has performed from local stages to festival du monde as an independent artist. She is a long-time member of The Poets Tree and Kalmunity Vibe Collective. Roen is a graduate of Human Relations and Family Life Education from Concordia University. Her creative contributions were recognized by the Black Theatre Workshop with the Gloria Mitchell-Aleong Award (2012).
Featured in CBC Arts online series (2021) and the poetry anthology Talking Book (2006, Cumulus Press).
Scribbling Stories with Sivan Slapak
…with giving my own projects attention. But I’m getting better at it! 2) You have been part of two mentorship pairings over the years: in 2021 with Sheila Heti through…
Read moreEditorial Mentorship at carte blanche
…Editor: Liana Cusmano 2022 Program – Poetry Guest Editor: Mahta Riazi carte blanche Editor: Greg Santos 2021 Program – Non-Fiction Guest Editor: Poonam Dhir carte blanche Non-fiction Editor: Jenny Ferguson 2020…
Read more2024 QWF Mentorship Program: Call for Applications
…as a writer, and how your writing will benefit from a mentor’s guidance at this time; An eight- to ten-page sample, double-spaced if prose, from the project you wish to…
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