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SUMMARY:Kama La Mackerel's ZOM-FAM Book Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join Kama La Mackerel\, the poet behind the debut lyric poetry collection ZOM-FAM\, for their cross-continental book tour! In virtual venues from Halifax to Vancouver\, with special guests including Jillian Christmas and jes sachse\, Kama’s My Body Is the Ocean Tour will take place on dates between November 16th and December 2nd\, 2020. Find one that works for you. \nABOUT ZOM-FAM:\nIn their debut poetry collection\, Kama La Mackerel mythologizes a queer/trans narrative of and for their home island\, Mauritius. Multiply voiced and imbued with complex storytelling\, ZOM-FAM showcases a fluid narrative that summons ancestral voices\, femme tongues\, broken colonial languages and a tender queer subjectivity\, all of which grapple with the legacy of plantation servitude. \nKAMA LA MACKEREL is a Montreal-based Mauritian-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist\, educator\, writer\, community-arts facilitator and literary translator who works within and across performance\, photography\, installations\, textiles\, digital art and literature. Kama’s work is grounded in the exploration of justice\, love\, healing\, decoloniality\, hybridity\, cosmopolitanism and self- and collective-empowerment.\nlamackerel.net\n@KamaLaMackerel \nClosed captioning will be included for most events. Please support the local bookseller hosts by getting a copy of the book through them. Please contact Metonymy Press with any accessibility requests or questions about events.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/kama-la-mackerels-zom-fam-book-tour/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Silver Pins: Novel Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Workshop details TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/silver-pins-novel-writing-workshop/2020-11-18/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Local Reads Book Club - The Philistine
DESCRIPTION:Discover and discuss books written and published in Quebec at our newest book club\, Local Reads. \nThe club is hosted by Malek Yalaoui.\nA Montreal-based writer\, advocate and public speaker\, Malek Yalaoui has been called many things but the most frequent of these is “force to be reckoned with.” \nFor our next meeting\, November 18th\, we’ll be reading The Philistine by Leila Marshy. Presented by the Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec (AELAQ) and The Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) \nWhere and How Can I purchase the book? Our webstore is here:\nhttp://mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/posts/webstore-faq\nWe Ship Canada-wide! \nBy purchasing your book at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly you help support events like this one\, independent publishing and retailing\, our neighborhood\, and authors both local and from around the world who depend on independent bookstores for their livelihood. Your support is appreciated. \n/////////////////////////////////////////// \nTHE PHILISTINE \nNadia Eid doesn’t know it yet\, but she’s about to change her life. It’s the end of the ’80s and she hasn’t seen her Palestinian father since he left Montreal years ago to take a job in Egypt\, promising to bring her with him. But now she’s twenty-five and he’s missing in action\, so she takes matters into her own hands. Booking a short vacation from her boring job and Québecois boyfriend\, she calls her father from the Nile Hilton in downtown Cairo. But nothing goes as planned and\, stumbling around\, Nadia wanders into an art gallery where she meets Manal\, a young Egyptian artist who becomes first her guide and then her lover. Through this unexpected relationship\, Nadia rediscovers her roots\, her language\, and her ambitions\, as her father demonstrates the unavoidable destiny of becoming a Philistine – the Arabic word for Palestinian. With Manal’s career poised to take off and her father’s secret life revealed\, the First Intifada erupts across the border. Nadia needs to decide what all this has to do with her.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/local-reads-book-club-the-philistine/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Writing What We Don’t (Yet) Know: Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Workshop description TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-what-we-dont-yet-know-fiction/2020-11-18/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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