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SUMMARY:Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Blue Metropolis Festival is one of the largest multilingual literary events in North America. Each year\, writers from Quebec\, Canada and around the world converge on Montreal for a couple of days. Festivalgoers are treated to live interviews\, roundtable discussions\, public readings\, debates\, master classes\, reading and writing workshops. Every year\, the Festival is structured around several strong themes that bear testimony to a keen social awareness and to a passion for literature in all its richness.\nIn 2023\, Blue Metropolis turns 25.\nThe anniversary edition of the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival will take place April 27 to 30\, 2023\, in Montreal (in-person program). The online program will premiere April 22 to 27\, 2023.\nIn addition to our usual program\, part of our programming will be dedicated to this 25th anniversary.\nFor more information\, visit our website (bluemetropolis.org) as of March 17\, 2023.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/blue-metropolis-international-literary-festival/
LOCATION:Hotel 10\, 10 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 4C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:How to Pitch the Media
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Session: April 27\, 2-3:30pm (No registration limit)In-Person Session: May 2\, 1-3pm (Registration currently full)Free for all QWF members \n\n\n\nQWF is pleased to offer this free workshop with CBC Montreal’s Debbie Hynes\, Manager of Communications\, Marketing & Brand. \n\n\n\n“How to Pitch Your Work to CBC” will give you practical\, hands-on advice on how to get your work out to the media\, with a particular focus on CBC. You’ll learn what producers expect (and want) in a pitch\, how to market your work to media outlets\, and how to craft a pitch that sets you and your story apart.  \n\n\n\nThis workshop is offered two times: once online and once in person. The in-person workshop will be held at the CBC Montreal offices and is limited to 12 participants. The virtual workshop will be held over Zoom and does not have an attendance limit. The content of both sessions is essentially the same\, but the in-person workshop will be a bit more hands-on\, given the nature of the format. \n\n\n\nTo Register for a Virtual Spot on April 27: \n\n\n\n(1) Send an email to Riley at riley@qwf.org with the subject line “How to Pitch the Media – Virtual Registration.” Make sure that your email includes both your name and email address.  \n\n\n\n(2) A Zoom link will be sent out a few days prior to the session. \n\n\n\nTo Register for an In-Person Spot on May 2: \n\n\n\nIn-person registration is now closed. If you are interested in this workshop\, please register for a virtual spot. \n\n\n\nImportant: This workshop is free for all QWF members. QWF membership status will be checked for both virtual and in-person participants. Not yet a member? Learn about being a member here!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/how-to-pitch-the-media/2023-04-27/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Writing the TV Pilot
DESCRIPTION:In this eight-week workshop\, Montreal-based screenwriter Allen Markuze will give you the tools to be able to write a TV pilot. He’s going to do so by asking and helping answer the following… \n\n\n\n\nWhat is your TV series about?\n\n\n\nIs your idea sustainable?\n\n\n\nWhat happens episode to episode?\n\n\n\nWhat’s the theme of your show?\n\n\n\nWhat are some similar shows?\n\n\n\nWho are your characters?\n\n\n\nIs your pilot going to be a premise episode or an episodic episode?\n\n\n\nWhat is a three-act structure and five-act structure?\n\n\n\n\nThese intimate sessions will involve a mixture of group discussion\, critical analysis of TV pilots and shows\, and workshopping participants’ own ideas with the goal of completing their own TV pilot. Ideas will be workshopped in groups as well as one-on-one with the workshop leader and fellow participants. \n\n\n\nAllen Markuze is an award-winning screenwriter who has taken part in writers rooms and has written for a variety of live-action and animation TV shows that have aired on the likes of Netflix\, Disney\, Nickelodeon\, Hulu\, and CBC. Before embarking on a screenwriting career\, Markuze spent several years working in LA at Dan Halsted’s company\, Manage-ment\, where he helped manage a roster of writers from shows such as Mad Men and Breaking Bad\, and on feature films like Friday Night Lights and Wall Street. Prior to that\, he worked as an assistant to screenwriter Janus Cercone (Leap of Faith with Steve Martin). Markuze’s foray into the entertainment industry began as a development intern in LA at Underground Films (FX’s Snowfall) where he read countless scripts\, books\, and plays\, and eavesdropped on A LOT of conversations.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-the-tv-pilot/2023-04-27/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Biography\, Autobiography\, and Ghostwriting
DESCRIPTION:The basic tools of biography and autobiography are the same\, and this workshop will show how you can write any life in a meaningful and engaging way. \n\n\n\nThe first challenge is learning how to put lives in a larger context. This means researching the times and places the subject lived in\, then weaving their individual narratives with all of their complex personal relationships\, into the larger world. We will learn how to do this with the use of the illuminating details that bring people and places to life. \n\n\n\nWe will also look at the sub-category of ghostwriting\, where you are writing a first-person biography and\, in a sense\, become the person you are writing for\, internalizing their thoughts and feelings as you use all of the tools at your disposal to tell their story as if was your own. \n\n\n\nGhostwriting also happens to be a field where a writer can make a decent living in Canada\, and at the end of the course\, we will look at the business side and what goes into a ghostwriting contract. \n\n\n\nOne thing you soon discover in writing biographies of any kind\, including ghosting an autobiography\, is the truth of the cliché that everyone has a book in them. At least in the sense that all of our stories—following our lives along the trajectories of time and space and meeting and beating challenges—are worth telling. As a writer you discover that it is a privilege to write someone else’s life. \n\n\n\nIdeally\, you will be working on biographical or autobiographical material of your own in the class\, but this is not necessary. If you are working on a text now or if you are simply planning one for the future\, I look forward to meeting you in the spring of 2023 and exploring the writing of lives together. \n\n\n\nPeter McFarlane has written 4 nonfiction books of his own and five ghostwritten books\, as well as more than 100 newspaper and magazine features. He has specialized in Indigenous history and politics and has worked on several CBC radio programs as a researcher and on-air contributor. He is currently completing another ghostwritten book and a new work of his own nonfiction.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/biography-autobiography-and-ghostwriting/2023-04-27/
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