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SUMMARY:Jewish Book Month (it's more than books!) - award winning writers\, lectures\, Russian culture\, workshops- livestreamed until Nov. 30
DESCRIPTION:Far from being only about books\, this entertaining and thought-provoking series of multilingual\, eclectic events brings together some of today’s top literary minds in interviews and inspiring lectures\, along with workshops\, concerts and Russian dance & culture. \nFrom Boston\, Steven Pinker continues his exploration on the genealogy of reason with insight and humour with his new work\, “Rationality: What It Is\, Why It Seems Scarce\, Why It Matters” (Nov. 17); live from France\, Valerie Zenatti is a Francophone author grounded in the European and Middle Eastern romantic traditions in conversation with Chantal Ringuet (Nov. 14); the 16th annual Evening of Russian Culture- “Our Hearts Are Holding Hands” stars poets\, musicians\, vocalists and dancers bringing famous Russian bard Bulat Okudzhava to life\, in English and Russian. Tickets available to watch live in person at the Segal Centre or livestreamed (Nov. 13); and Chanie Ehrentreu\, host of The Boss Maidel Podcast\, is in conversation with author Fiona Davis in the new series\, Boss Maidel Conversations with Female Writers from California and New York (Nov. 30). \nLivestreamed from cities around the world\, Q&A follow each event. Presented by the Jewish Public Library.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/jewish-book-month-its-more-than-books-award-winning-writers-lectures-russian-culture-workshops-livestreamed-until-nov-30/
LOCATION:Zoom\, https://bit.ly/35akIGi
CATEGORIES:Festival
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SUMMARY:Life Writing: An Introductory Memoir Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Open to all \nLimited to 12 participants \n  \n“Part of the art of memoir is seeing and recognizing the story itself.  Life is messy. Art gathers up the chaos and gives it form.” Dani Shapiro. \n  \nOur lives are filled with stories—experiences of joy\, heartbreak\, or transformative change. If you’ve always wanted to write down true stories from your life\, here’s a place to begin. Whether you’re writing family tales for the next generation or describing life-changing moments for a wider audience\, this workshop will help you find your voice and polish your prose.  \n      Building a writer’s toolbox of basic narrative techniques helps shape personal episodes into stories that engage readers. Sessions will include discussion of short readings and tips for getting stories from your head and heart onto the page. Each week\, two or three participants will be asked to email their drafts of a life-based story for peer feedback the following session. You will learn how to offer supportive feedback to your fellow writers in accordance with workshop guidelines. The workshop leader will provide written comments on submissions to help writers lift their first drafts to the next level.             \n  \nKaren Zey’s creative nonfiction stories\, personal essays and craft articles have been widely published in literary magazines. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net\, and featured in Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction (Hippocampus Books\, 2021). Karen has led writing workshops and hosted literary events at her local West Island library. She belongs to a monthly writing group whose members first met in 2013 at a QWF workshop. Karen believes that emergent writers thrive by finding community in which they can explore craft and share writerly talk. \nVisit: www.karenzey.com       \n(Twitter @zippyzey)   http://twitter.com/zippyzey
URL:https://qwf.org/event/life-writing-an-introductory-memoir-workshop/2021-11-24/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:QWF Literary Awards Gala
DESCRIPTION:The winners of six prestigious book prizes will be announced from the Cabaret Lion d’Or\, Montreal\, in a live-stream broadcast of the Gala\, on Wednesday\, November 24\, 2021\, at 7 PM. The QWF Literary Awards Gala will be hosted by Giller Prizewinning author Sean Michaels.\n\nSince 1988\, the QWF Literary Awards have celebrated the best books and plays published or performed by English-language writers and translators in Quebec\, as well as those translating English works from Quebec into French. Each award comes with a purse of $3\,000.\n\nThis year also marks a very special moment in the history of QWF: the unveiling of The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature\, the first QWF Award to be endowed. Nobody embodied the values of QWF more than Janet Blachford. She was a dedicated and serious writer with a keen sense of humour and a strong community ethic. For years\, she volunteered endless hours of her time to serve the organization as a board member\, and we are proud to play a role in contributing to her legacy.\n\nThis year’s finalists\nJanet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature\n\n 	Dani Jansen\, The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life (Second Story Press)\n 	Nadine Neema\, Journal of a Travelling Girl (Wandering Fox/Heritage House)\n 	Monique Polak\, Room for One More (Kar-Ben Publishing)\n 	Su J. Sokol\, Zee (Bouton d’or Acadie)\n\nConcordia University First Book Prize\nSponsored by Concordia University\n\n 	Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch\, Knot Body (Metatron Press)\n 	Balfour M. Mount\, Ten Thousand Crossroads: The Path As I Remember It (McGill-Queen’s University Press)\n 	Samir Shaheen-Hussain\, Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press)\n 	Aimee Wall\, We\, Jane (Book*hug Press)\n\nCole Foundation Prize for Translation (French to English)\n\n 	Sheila Fischman\, Em (Random House Canada)*\n 	Sarah Henzi\, I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country? (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)**\n 	Donald Winkler\, Orwell in Cuba: How 1984 Came to Be Published in Castro’s Twilight (Talonbooks)***\n\n*A translation of Kim Thúy\, Em (Groupe Librex)\n**A translation of An Antane Kapesh\, Je suis une Maudite sauvagesse; Qu’as-tu fait de mon pays? (Mémoire d’Encrier)\n***A translation of Frédérick Lavoie\, Avant l’Après (La Peuplade Récit)\nA.M. Klein Prize for Poetry\nSponsored by two anonymous donors\n\n 	Sarah Burgoyne\, Because the Sun (Coach House Books)\n 	Klara du Plessis\, Hell Light Flesh (Palimpsest Press)\n 	Jessie Jones\, The Fool (Goose Lane Editions)\n 	Sarah Venart\, I Am the Big Heart (Brick Books)\n\nMavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction\n\n 	Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt\, Peacekeeper’s Daughter: A Middle-East Memoir (Thistledown Press)\n 	Karen Messing\, Bent Out of Shape (Between the Lines)\n 	André Picard\, Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada’s Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic (Random House Canada)\n 	Robyn Sarah\, Music\, Late and Soon (Biblioasis)\n 	Samir Shaheen-Hussain\, Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press)\n\nParagraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction\nSponsored by Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore\n\n 	Mikhail Iossel\, Love Like Water\, Love Like Fire (Bellevue Literary Press)\n 	Saleema Nawaz\, Songs for the End of the World (McClelland & Stewart)\n 	Aimee Wall\, We\, Jane (Book*hug Press)\n 	Kathleen Winter\, Undersong (Knopf Canada)\n\nOTHER AWARDS\nAlso announced at the Gala will be the winners of three other prizes. The carte blanche Prize will be awarded to a Quebec writer in recognition of their outstanding submission to carte blanche\, QWF’s online literary journal. The honorary Judy Mappin Community Award will be bestowed upon a person who has contributed to the advancement of Quebec’s English-language literary community. The new QWF College Writers Award will be awarded for the best short story\, poem\, or work of nonfiction written in English between August 15\, 2020 and June 4\, 2021 by a student at one of the six sponsoring colleges: Champlain\, Dawson\, Heritage\, John Abbott\, Marianopolis\, and Vanier.\nHOW TO PARTICIPATE\nParticipants are invited to watch the premiere live-stream of the Gala on Wednesday\, November 24 at 7 PM at the QWF YouTube page.\n\nThe QWF is also inviting viewers to participate in the QWF Maskerade\, taking place in the half hour before the Gala airs. Beginning at 6:30 PM on November 24\, viewers are invited to take a picture of themselves at home\, ready to watch the event in their Venetian masks. Post the photo on Facebook\, Instagram or Twitter using #QWFMASKERADE: All who do will be entered into a draw to win a collection of the award-winning books.\n\nMore information about the shortlisted authors\, including photos and book summaries\, is online at the QWF Literary Database\, http://quebecbooks.qwf.org.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/qwf-literary-awards-gala/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Community Events,QWF Events
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SUMMARY:Story Technique – A Hands-on Investigation
DESCRIPTION:Open to all \nLimited to 12 participants \n  \n“The only way … to learn to write short stories is to write them\, and then to try to discover what you have done.”  Flannery O’Connor \n  \nThis eight-week workshop will investigate the short story form. Using five truly great realist and speculative short stories as reference\, we’ll do a quick review of the basic building blocks of story-writing: things like detail\, narrative point of view\, and elements of time and place. Then we’ll investigate technical innovations with an eye to attempting something new in our own fiction. Workshop time will be split between discussing technique in published models\, and reading and discussing our own stories.  \n  \nAs soon as you have registered for this workshop\, please submit a single WORD document containing the following information to workshops@qwf.org with the subject line “For Claire Rothman”:  \n\nA short paragraph about yourself.\nA sentence about what you hope to get from this workshop.\n\n  \nStory Technique will be taught online on Zoom. You’ll need a computer and a decent online connection. We will keep things interactive\, with participants pairing up in break-out rooms for one-on-one exchanges\, and also giving short presentations to the group.  \n  \nYou will receive links to the five stories we’ll be using as models. Reading them before our start date is strongly recommended.  \n  \nClaire Holden Rothman is a Montreal writer\, translator\, and fiction editor\, whose third novel\, Lear’s Shadow (2018) won the 2019 Vine Award for Jewish Canadian Fiction and was short-listed for the 2020 Jacob Isaac Segal Award. Other novels include My October (2014)\, shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award and nominated for a Scotiabank Giller prize\, and The Heart Specialist (2009)\, also nominated for the Giller. She has taught fiction workshops at McGill and Bishop’s Universities. For many years\, she taught English literature and creative writing at Marianopolis College in Montreal.  \n  \nwww.claireholdenrothman.com
URL:https://qwf.org/event/story-technique-a-hands-on-investigation/2021-11-24/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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