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SUMMARY:Seasons Change: An Afternoon Writing Activity
DESCRIPTION:Join the Atwater Writers Exhibition for a two-hour writing activity led by poet Deanna Smith\, who will offer exercises and writing prompts related to managing changes in life\, metamorphoses\, loss\, and the arrival of new opportunities. \nDeanna Smith is a Montreal-based poet\, performer and educator. She believes deeply in the healing and transformative power of words. \nThis workshop is FREE and OPEN TO ALL. Registration is NOT required. \nFor more information contact Elise at elise.m@videotron.ca. \nThis event is taking place on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka.\nGenerously supported by the Community Cultural Action Fund (CCAF) of the Department of Canadian Heritage.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/seasons-change-an-afternoon-writing-activity/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Visit from award winning author Eliza Robertson
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday October 24 at 2:30pm for a visit with award winning author Eliza Robertson. She will be reading from her book “Demi-Gods.” \nBio: ELIZA ROBERTSON’s 2014 debut collection\, Wallflowers\, was shortlisted for the East Anglia Book Award\, the Danuta Gleed Short Story Prize\, and selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Her critically acclaimed first novel\, Demi-Gods\, was a Globe & Mail and National Post book of the year and the winner of the 2018 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize. She studied creative writing at the University of Victoria and the University of East Anglia\, where she received the Man Booker Scholarship and Curtis Brown Prize. In addition to being shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize and Journey Prize\, Eliza’s stories have won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and 2017 Elizabeth Jolley Prize. Originally from Vancouver Island\, Eliza lives in Montreal. \nFor more information: http://www.elizarobertson.com/
URL:https://qwf.org/event/visit-from-award-winning-author-eliza-robertson/
LOCATION:Bibliothèque de Baie-D’Urfé\, 20551 Lakeshore Rd\, Baie-D'Urfé\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:The Very Short Story: Reading and Writing Fiction of 300 to 1000 Words
DESCRIPTION:All levels are welcome. Limited to 12 participants. \nThe very short story comes in many guises. Tale\, fable\, cronica\, feuilleton\, anecdote\, aphorism\, vignette\, sketch\, flash\, prose poem\, yarn\, joke—each of these may fall into its fold\, as may extra-literary forms such as lists or memos. Its main characteristic is brevity. Since it can be written relatively quickly\, it offers a wonderful place for experimentation. Since each word\, punctuation mark\, and line of white space speaks\, it demands precision and invites us to hone our writing skills. \nIn this class we will be reading and discussing a wide variety of very short stories\, from  contemporary writers and writers of the past. We will be reading as writers: seeking inspiration\, and looking at what these stories are doing and how they achieve their ends. What makes a story a story? What can be left out? What is the effect of omission? \nDrawing on class discussion\, students will write their own stories as homework and bring them to class to share. We will read them together\, but we will not focus on critique; our class will be about generating work\, permission to try new things\, and celebrating creativity. It will welcome new writers and those with experience. Participants should end the course with a portfolio of at least eight very short stories. \nFor our first class\, please bring in a published work of fiction of about 300 to 500 words. Be prepared to read it aloud and say what you love about it.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-very-short-story-reading-and-writing-fiction-of-300-to-1000-words/2019-10-24/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T190000
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SUMMARY:Fall LGBTQ Reading Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a reading by four wonderful LGBTQIA+ authors! We’ll have copies of their books available for sale and signing\, as well. \nOur lineup:\nTrebor Healey is most recently the author of Falling\, a short story collection in which characters lose their way\, figuratively and literally\, and confront the profound displacement of modern life. He is the recipient of a Lambda Literary award\, two Publishing Triangle awards and a Violet Quill award. He is the author of three novels\, A Horse Named Sorrow\, Faun and Through It Came Bright Colors; a book of poetry\, Sweet Son of Pan; and two previous collections of stories\, A Perfect Scar and Eros & Dust. He co-edited (with Marci Blackman) Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco and co-edited (with Amie M. Evans) Queer & Catholic. \nMadelaine Caritas Longman is a poet and essayist living in Montreal. Her work has appeared in Room\, filling station\, Lemon Hound\, and Prism. Her first book\, The Danger Model\, was released this fall from McGill-Queen’s University Press. \nFelice Picano is the author of more than thirty books of poetry\, fiction\, memoirs\, nonfiction\, and plays. His work has been translated into many languages and several of his titles have been national and international bestsellers. He is considered a founder of modern gay literature along with the other members of the Violet Quill. Picano also began and operated the SeaHorse Press and Gay Presses of New York for fifteen years. His first novel was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Since then he’s been nominated for and/or won dozens of literary awards. Picano teaches at Antioch College\, Los Angeles. \nNicola Sibthorpe is Montreal born\, and has recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at Concordia University\, focusing on the creation of identity through the intersections of neuro-divergenece and queerness. In 2017\, she was the inaugural winner of the Quebec Young Writers Award\, and has otherwise been published in Headlights\, QWF Writes\, and Carte-Blanche.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/fall-lgbtq-reading-showcase/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance
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SUMMARY:Taras Grescoe launches Possess the Air
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Taras Grescoe’s thrilling new history of resistance to fascism in Mussolini’s Rome. A reading\, a book talk\, a celebration of Taras and of patriots committed to democracy and inclusion. \nPOSSESS THE AIR\nPlunging readers into Fascist Rome at the height of Mussolini’s power\, Possess the Air tells the story of three people who defied Italy’s authoritarian despot by opposing the rising tide of populism and xenophobia. Two Canadian archeologists\, Gilbert Bagnani and his wife Mary Stewart Houston\, maddened the self-styled Caesar\, determined to dispel his claims that Rome was—and always would be—rightful master of the Mediterranean\, while poet and aviator Lauro de Bosis\, firstborn of an Italian aristocrat and a New Englander\, transformed himself into a modern Icarus\, amazing the world as he risked his life in the skies bring the dictator down. An inspiring story of resistance\, risk\, and sacrifice\, Taras Grescoe’s portrait of heroes past is an essential biography for our time. \nTARAS GRESCOE is the author of seven non-fiction books\, including Sacré Blues\, The End of Elsewhere\, The Devil’s Picnic\, Bottomfeeder\, Straphanger\, and Shanghai Grand. Bottomfeeder won the Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction\, the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction\, and was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. He has contributed to the New York Times\, The Guardian\, The New Yorker\, Gourmet\, and The Wall Street Journal. His books have been translated into half a dozen languages. He lives in Montreal.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/taras-grescoe-launches-possess-the-air/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Greenwood's StoryFest 2019
DESCRIPTION:StoryFest 2019 has invited journalist/historian D’Arcy Jenish to read from and discuss his book\, The Making of the October Crisis.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/greenwoods-storyfest-2019-7/
LOCATION:St. James Church\, 642 Main\, Hudson\, Quebec\, J0P 1J0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events,Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T220000
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SUMMARY:Urgency\, Dread\, Risk: A Short-Fiction Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Adam Michiels\nThis workshop is intended for fiction writers who have written short stories before\, and who have experience with the workshop environment. Limited to 12 participants. \nWe’ll be writing towards emotional impact. The workshop will be supplemented by readings and generative exercises to explore the question of expression vs. evocation—as well as imagination\, self-surgery\, ambition\, and accountability. We’ll also talk about sentences\, with a focus on line edits. \nParticipants will be workshopped twice. You’ll have the option of bringing in an existing piece and writing a new second piece\, or else bringing in one piece followed by a revision of the same. \nReadings will include Namwali Serpell\, Jamel Brinkley\, Casey Plett\, Carys Davis\, Octavia Butler\, and Ottessa Moshfegh\, among others.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/urgency-dread-risk-a-short-fiction-workshop/2019-10-24/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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