Events for November 4, 2023
Mountain Writing – Self Directed Residency 2023
Overview The Self-Directed Mountain Writing program is a three-week residency for four established writers … More info Read more
Authors and Artists Festival: Rewilding
The 4th annual Authors and Artists Festival, with the theme ReWilding will be held … More info Read more
Create Your Own Comic Strip!
Atrium, McConnell Building, Concordia University 1400 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West, MontrealWe’ll explore the basic building blocks to get you started on drawing and writing a (mostly silly!) comic strip featuring fun characters we’ll create together. Close up faces, word balloons, sound effects and more! For kids 5 to 9.
Getting Lit with Linda: Live podcast recording featuring guests Catherine Hernandez and Eva Crocker
DeSève Cinema, Concordia University 1400 Maisonneuve Blvd. W., MontrealIn a first-ever episode with a live audience, award-winning podcaster Dr. Linda Morra will interview novelists Catherine Hernandez and Eva Crocker. Both authors will be available to sign books afterward. Co-sponsored by Montreal’s queer reading series, the Violet Hour.
Postcards to the Future!
Mail a message to your older self. We’ll be designing with words and pictures a double sided postcard with a message you’d like your future self to know. It could be serious or playful or both, you decide what the adult version of you should know! For kids 10 and up.
Scarborough Screening
DeSève Cinema, Concordia University 1400 Maisonneuve Blvd. W., MontrealIn a pre-festival special event, Image+Nation Queer Culture, Montreal’s long-running queer film festival, will join the Violet Hour to co-sponsor this moving film, an adaptation of Catherine Hernandez’s novel of the same name.
Making Monster Heads – An Exercise in Slow Group Drawing
Atrium, McConnell Building, Concordia University 1400 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West, MontrealTogether we’ll SLOWLY build a weird and wonderful bunch of monster heads that we can only create as a team! For all ages.
QWF Annual Timeline
January
- QWF Mentorship pairs announced
February
- QWF Mentorships begin
- Writers in the Community Pyramid Campaign Fundraiser opens
- StoryScaping Call for Workshop Proposals (biannual in odd-numbered years)
March
- Spring Workshops begin
- Call for nominations for QWF Board of Directors
- Call for Submissions for QWF Literary Awards
April
- QWF Annual General Meeting (AGM)
- Writers in the Community Pyramid Campaign ends
May
- Call for proposals for QWF Workshops for the following year
June
- Deadline for submissions for the QWF Literary Awards
- QWF Mentorship Reading
July
- QWF Annual Membership Picnic (July or August)
- Nominations open for the Judy Mappin Community Award
August
- The QWF Annual Membership Picnic (July or August)
- Deadline for submissions for the Judy Mappin Community Award
- Registration for Fall Workshops opens
- Call for applications for Writers in CEGEPs
September
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- Call for applications for the QWF Mentorship Program
- Call for applications for the Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship Program for Underrepresented Writers
- Call for applications for Karin L. Montin / Jean Antonin Billard Translation Mentorship
- Deadline for Writers in CEGEPs applications
October
- Fall Workshops begin
- Shortlist for QWF Literary Awards announced
- Shortlist for the QWF College Writers Award announced
- Recipient of the Judy Mappin Community Award announced
- Deadline for QWF Mentorship applications
November
- Shortlist for carte blanche Prize announced
- The QWF Awards Gala
December
- Read Quebec Book Fair
- Registration for Winter-Spring Workshops opens