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Writers & CALQ

This hybrid workshop will provide an overview of best practices for writers with projects for print, spoken word, or storytelling looking to write strong literary arts grant applications for the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

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Description

Saturday, March 18, 10am-1pm
Open to all.
Limited to 20 participants: 10 in-person and 10 online
QWF Office (Room 3, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec) or Zoom

In this hybrid workshop, Tawhida Tanya Evanson and D.M. Bradford provide an overview of best practices for writers with projects for print, spoken word, or storytelling looking to write strong literary arts grant applications for the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ). The workshop will focus on grants for professional development, creation, production and travel with emphasis on the project description, budget, support materials, assessment criteria, risk, impact, and cultural appropriation. This workshop will include time for Q&A and is intended for Quebec-based English-language writers at all stages of their practice with priority given to emerging, BIPOC, LGBTQ2+ and disabled artists.

Access to MS Word or similar writing software will be necessary.

Presented in partnership with the Blue Metropolis Festival

This workshop will take place at the QWF Office (Room 3, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec) with up to 10 virtual spots for participants who are unable to attend in-person. 

Registration for this workshop is now closed. Thank you for your interest.

Workshop leader

Credit: Temmuz Arsiray | Sarah Bodri
D.M. Bradford is a poet and translator based in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). Bradford's acclaimed debut collection, Dream of No One but Myself (Brick Books 2021), won the A.M. Kein Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the Gerard Lampert Memorial Award, the Governor General’s Literary Awards, and the Griffin Poetry Prize. Their work has also appeared in Brick, The Fiddlehead, fillingStation, The Capilano Review, and elsewhere. House Within a House, Bradford’s translation from the French of Désormais, ma demeure by Nicholas Dawson, will be released on May 1, and his second poetry collection, Bottom Rail on Top, will be published by Brick Books in the fall of 2023. Tawhida Tanya Evanson is a poet, author, multidisciplinary artist and producer. Her two poetry collections are Bothism (Ekstasis 2017) and Nouveau Griot (Frontenac 2018), and her debut novel Book of Wings (Véhicule 2021) won the 2022 New Contribution Literary Prize, was on the 2022 CBC Canada Reads Longlist, and was one of Quill & Quire's 2021 Books of the Year. With a 25-year practice in spoken word, she has performed in over a dozen countries and released several studio albums and videopoems including the award-winning Almost Forgot my Bones. In 2013, she was Poet of Honour at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and received the Golden Beret Award for her contribution to the genre. Director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word residency and VP of The Quebec Writers’ Federation, she is at work on an Afrofuturist film premiering in spring 2023 and a French translation of her novel. She moonlights as a whirling dervish.

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QWF gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Government of Canada.