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SUMMARY:The Art of the Short Story
DESCRIPTION:Open to all. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants. \n\n\n\nWe plan to hold this workshop in person at the QWF office\, with up to two virtual slots available for people who are unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it\, this workshop may transition to a purely online model. \n\n\n\nOpen to writers of all levels\, this 10-week workshop is an investigation of the modern short story. What exactly is a story? What distinguishes it from an anecdote\, or a lie?  Most of us recognize a good one when we meet it on the page. It moves us\, often unexpectedly\, to laughter or tears. And it marks us\, reaching inside us and shifting\, sometimes subtly and other times with a jolt\, our views about ourselves and the world. The best stories articulate truths that we hadn’t\, until the moment of reading\, thought to put into words. \n\n\n\nThere is no set of rules for how to write a good story.  Each writer has to find their own way\, and each story demands fresh experiments. Writing is like living. It requires close listening and relentless improvisation.  The best way to learn how to write a good story is to read one. In this workshop\, we’ll read “In the Cart” (1897) by Anton Chekhov\, and investigate Chekhov’s views about this genre. We’ll also look at his technique: how he used elements like detail\, narrative point of view\, and speech to create a story strong enough to withstand the tests of time and translation. Over a century after Chekhov’s death\, his stories are still read and loved in places totally unlike Czarist Russia. What secrets can his work reveal to us in 21st-century Quebec? \n\n\n\nOur first four meetings will be devoted to discussing “In the Cart” (accessible online; also translated as “The Schoolmistress\,” and “A Journey by Cart”). Exercises relating to various elements of craft will be offered. The last six meetings will be reserved for workshopping our own stories and continuing the exploration of what exactly a story is\, and how to write one. \n\n\n\nClaire Holden Rothman is a Montreal writer\, translator\, and fiction editor who has published two collections of stories and three novels. The Heart Specialist (2009) was long-listed for The Scotia Bank-Giller Prize\, and My October was long-listed for the Giller and short-listed for the Governor General’s Award. Her most recent novel\, Lear’s Shadow\, was short-listed for Quebec’s 2020 Jacob Isaac Segal Award\, and won the 2019 Vine Award for Jewish Canadian Fiction. For many years\, Claire taught English literature and creative writing at Marianopolis College. She has also taught fiction workshops at McGill and Bishop’s Universities.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-art-of-the-short-story/2022-11-03/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Atwater Poetry Project: Holiday Book Fair Special Edition
DESCRIPTION:Part of the 2022 Holiday Book FairFree\, no registration requiredIn person and live-streamed (see details below) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJoin us for a special edition of the Atwater Poetry Project series\, in the Adair Auditorium of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre. This evening of new writing will feature poets Prathna Lor (Emanations)\, River Halen (Dream Rooms)\, and Trynne Delaney (the half-drowned)\, with readings moderated by APP curator\, Faith Paré. \n\n\n\nIn-person event details\n\n\n\nSpace is limited; first come\, first seated. In accordance with public health guidelines\, mask wearing for in-person events is optional\, though encouraged. The Atwater Library and Adair Auditorium are accessible by elevator. Be sure to use the entrance on 4023 Tupper Street\, around the corner from Atwater Avenue. For elevator access\, use the accessible entrance in the alley off Tupper.    \n\n\n\nLive streaming details\n\n\n\nThe event will be live-streamed to our YouTube account\, no prior registration is required. Tune in at 7 pm on November 3\, 2022\, to view and participate in the Q&A via the chat function.  \n\n\n\nExplore other 2022 Holiday Book Fair events here\, and discover more English-language books written\, published\, or translated in Quebec at ReadQuebec.ca. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRiver Halen is an award-winning\, transgender writer of Catalan and Danish descent living in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Their poems and essays dealing with relation\, ecology\, transformation\, and sexuality have been published widely in Canada\, as well as in the U.S.\, Australia\, and in translation in Japan. Their first book\, Match\, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry\, and their most recent book\, Dream Rooms\, a collection of essays and poems\, includes works selected for Best Canadian Essays and was praised by the Bay Area Reporter as “unique and mesmerizing.” Visit their website\, Facebook\, or Instagram. \n\n\n\nPart essay\, part poem\, part fever dream journal entry\, Dream Rooms is a book about personal revolution\, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities. Set in the years that led up to author River Halen coming out as trans\, this collection concerns itself with what sits on the surface of daily life\, hidden in plain view\, hungry for address—what it means to take a stranger’s pet rabbit to the vet in a year of accelerating extinctions\, to lose your clothes to a moth infestation then buy a duvet made of fossil fuels\, to learn your bookshelf is full of work written by rapists and rape apologists\, to consider a birth control device as a narrative about bodies and their possibilities\, then pull the string. Deeply queer and trans not only in its content but in its thinking\, Dream Rooms invites readers to that place in consciousness where fear and desire\, hidden information and common knowledge brush up against each other and are mutually transformed. \n\n\n\nTrynne Delaney is a writer currently based in Tiohtiàh:ke (Montreal). They hold a Master of Arts in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Calgary. Their work appears in The Puritan\, CV2\, Carte Blanche\, GUTS\, WATCH YOUR HEAD\, and the League of Canadian Poets’ chapbook These Lands: a collection of voices by Black Poets in Canada\, edited by Chelene Knight. They grew up in the Maritimes. the half-drowned\, a poetic novella\, was published by Metatron Press in spring 2022. Visit their website\, and Twitter. \n\n\n\nthe half-drowned is a vision of a future at the end of the world where what survives is the shapeshifting love of family both given and chosen. Drawing on the Afro-diasporic ancestral knowledge of water and the urgency of desire\, Delaney builds a glittering\, speculative world where community holds through grief\, where we must choose to fend for ourselves while also caring for others. the half-drowned is a genre-bending novella that crafts a polyphony of voices to speak to and through our lives and dreams in order to reach for the unspoken and unsayable and make it heard.  \n\n\n\nPrathna Lor is a poet\, essayist\, editor and educator\, who has published in Canadian Literature\, DIAGRAM\, C Magazine\, Jacket2\, Poetry is Dead and Plenitude Magazine\, among others. Lor is Poetry Editor at Shrapnel Magazine and holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. They live in Montreal\, QC. Visit their website. \n\n\n\nEmanations (Wolsak & Wynn 2022) is a meditation on the spirit of disaster\, both personal and collective. Pushing always against commodification\, against a consumable narrative\, Prathna Lor charts the depths of the self\, searching for an internal music. With a lyric style that emerges from the ruins of unwanted life\, Prathna Lor has created a debut collection that is radiant to touch.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/atwater-poetry-project-holiday-book-fair-2022/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Read Quebec Book Fair,Reading
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SUMMARY:Edit like an Editor: How to Edit Your Own Prose
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is open to all levels of writers who have a prose manuscript they want to work on. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will be conducted via Zoom. \n\n\n\nUsing tips\, tricks\, and hands-on exercises\, workshop participants will learn about the different types of editing (including developmental editing\, line editing\, copyediting\, and fact checking) and how to see their own work with fresh eyes. \n\n\n\nThrough reading\, discussion\, and exercises\, this workshop will cover: \n\n\n\nHow to see your own work with an editor’s eyeSpotting common problems (info dumping\, “as you know\, Bob” explanations\, insufficient conflict\, misunderstanding genre conventions\, etc.)Understanding character development (goals and motivation)How to make the most out of dialoguePoint of view\, and common problems with point of view (e.g. head hopping)\n\n\n\nThis workshop is geared toward book-length manuscripts\, including short story and essay collections. Applicants must submit an excerpt from their manuscript (maximum 25 pages) along with a short description of the whole project in order to be considered for the workshop. After registering below\, you have until September 9 to send your document(s) to workshops@qwf.org\, with “For Maria Turner” in the subject line. \n\n\n\nBy the end of the workshop\, participants will have an in-depth editorial plan for their manuscript and have a solid understanding of the different types of editing and how to apply them to their own work. \n\n\n\nMaria Schamis Turner is a freelance editor specializing in developmental editing and line editing for fiction and creative nonfiction. She is a founding editor and previous editor-in-chief and creative nonfiction editor of the literary magazine carte blanche. She worked for 10 years on literary projects for CBC Radio\, including as an editor for Canada Writes. She was also the producer of the true story storytelling series This Really Happened and has taught numerous workshops on storytelling\, writing\, and editing. \n\n\n\nTurneredits.com \n\n\n\nTwitter: @turnmaria \n\n\n\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/turnmaria
URL:https://qwf.org/event/edit-like-an-editor-how-to-edit-your-own-prose/2022-11-03/
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SUMMARY:Writing Outside the Box: A Workshop on Edgy Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Open to writers of all experience levels. \n\n\n\nDue to the content in some of the exercises\, this workshop is restricted to participants aged 18+. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants \n\n\n\nWe plan to hold this workshop in person at the QWF office\, with up to two virtual slots available for people who are unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it\, this workshop may transition to a purely online model. \n\n\n\nLooking to shake up your process? Interested in breaking the rules a little? Designed to inspire unique approaches to creative writing\, this workshop will help squash your inner editor and provoke your inner rebel\, giving you the confidence you need to write more openly and honestly. \n\n\n\nOver the course of eight weeks\, participants will delve into the work of unconventional writers like Italo Calvino\, Kelly Link\, John Elizabeth Stintzi\, and George Saunders. You’ll learn tips and techniques for producing work quickly and fearlessly. You’ll dabble with ekphrasis\, magic realism\, and second-person perspective\, and you’ll hone your ability to give and receive constructive feedback in a wildly creative working environment. \n\n\n\nThis is a fun\, provocative\, and productive workshop that’s generated award-winning fiction and long-term friendships. It is suitable for writers of any experience level\, from the shy beginner to the established professional\, working in any medium or genre. And while filled with lesson-based exercises and guided assignments\, this workshop is happily (and willfully) anti-academic. Participants are not taught writing theory but are encouraged to develop their skills through the acts of reading and writing alone. Here\, you learn by doing. \n\n\n\nThere is no submission required prior to the first session. Participants will be expected to share fiction with the group as the workshop progresses. \n\n\n\nThis is the perfect way to kickstart a project\, rejuvenate your existing process\, or to simply step outside of your comfort zone by experimenting with new approaches to creativity. \n\n\n\nCome play with the weird kids of creative writing. (One of us. One of us.) \n\n\n\nTrepassey-born writer Tracey Waddleton splits her time between the island of Newfoundland and the island of Montreal. Her first book\, Send More Tourists… the Last Ones Were Delicious\, was published by Breakwater Books in July of 2019 and won the 2020 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. She is the inaugural recipient of the Quebec Writers’ Federation Max Margles Writing Residency and is spending/spent the month of August writing in Dublin\, Ireland  in 2022. \n\n\n\nwww.traceywaddleton.com \n\n\n\nInstagram: @bartlebomb \n\n\n\nTwitter: @traceywaddleton \n\n\n\nFacebook: www.facebook.com/tracey.waddleton
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-outside-the-box-a-workshop-on-edgy-fiction-4/2022-11-03/
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