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SUMMARY:Illuminated Grant-Writing
DESCRIPTION:This series of four workshops will examine how writers with projects for print\, spoken word\, or storytelling can develop a strong literary arts grant application. From drafting a project description to balancing a budget\, we will also discuss artistic risk\, impact\, and cultural appropriation. Focus will be on funding programs at the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA) and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)\, and an arts council program officer will join us to answer questions. This series is information-heavy and intended for Quebec-based writers at all stages of their practice: emerging\, mid-career\, or established. Participants must have an original literary arts project in mind in order to focus their efforts and be prepared to complete tasks between sessions. \n\n\n\nAccess to MS Word or similar writing software will be necessary as well as a willingness to share work\, and give and receive feedback in a workshop setting. \n\n\n\nAs soon as they have registered for the workshop\, participants should email a short\, one-sentence description of their current literary arts project to riley@qwf.org with the subject line “For Tawhida Tanya Evanson.” \n\n\n\nTawhida Tanya Evanson is a poet\, author\, performer and producer. Her poetry collections include Bothism and Nouveau Griot\, and her debut novel Book of Wings won the 2022 CAM/Blue Metropolis New Contribution Prize. Her French autotranslation Livre des ailes (2023) is fresh from Marchand de feuilles. With a twenty-five-year practice in oral poetry and music\, she performs internationally and has released studio albums and short films including the upcoming concert film CYANO SUN SUITE. She is president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation\, director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word Program\, and produces interarts events as Mother Tongue Media. She moonlights as a whirling dervish. www.mothertonguemedia.com
URL:https://qwf.org/event/illuminated-grant-writing-4/2024-02-24/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Naniki by Oonya Kempadoo
DESCRIPTION:February 24\, 2–4 pmLibrairie Paragraphe Bookstore\, Montreal\n\n\n\n𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 and 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 present a book launch for 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒌𝒊 by 𝐎𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐊𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐨. \n\n\n\nJoin us as author 𝐎𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐊𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐨 discusses and signs copies of her latest book 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒌𝒊. \n\n\n\nAdmission is Free. \n\n\n\n𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑:\n\n\n\nOonya Kempadoo is the author of three novels and is critically acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. A creative practitioner with an interest in cross-disciplinary dialogue\, she is a citizen of England\, Guyana\, and Grenada\, and currently lives in Montreal. \n\n\n\n𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊:\n\n\n\nThrough luminescent light\, ancestral paths\, and a Caribbean spirit-inflected world\, Naniki explores the musings and inner workings of the deep blue — the Caribbean Sea — and its shape-shifting sea beings. \n\n\n\nAs the sea mirrors the light from the blue skies\, and its depths are exposed by daggers of sunlight\, so too Naniki reveals and honours the Indigenous roots of the Caribbean and its people\, whose destiny is tied to the sea\, the vessel of collective memory. \n\n\n\nAmana and Skelele are made of water and air\, their essence intertwined with Taino and African ancestry. They evolved as elemental beings of the Anthropocene\, and shape-shifting with their naniki (active spirits) or animal avatars\, they begin an archipelagic journey throughout the Caribbean Basin to see the strange future they dreamed of. Until devastation erupts. \n\n\n\nTasked by their elders to go back in time to the source of the First People’s knowledge\, they must surmount historical and mythological challenges alike. How can they navigate and overcome these obstacles to regenerate themselves\, their love\, their islands\, and their seas?
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-naniki-by-oonya-kempadoo/
LOCATION:Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore\, 2220 McGill College Ave\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 3P9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book launch of 'Take Out the Jocks: a feminist revenge comedy'
DESCRIPTION:Join Michael Nest for the launch of his new novel ‘Take Out the Jocks: a feminist revenge comedy’\, with Linda Morra\, the host and writer of Getting Lit With Linda. The novel explores what would happen if the people afraid to go out at night were young men\, not young women. It follows Kate\, Carly\, and Seyram\, friends since childhood\, who are outraged by the acquittal of a local rapist and frustrated at the lack of progress with the #MeToo movement in their community. They decide to reverse gender freedoms by targeting the town’s jocks in a series of ever-more brazen attacks. On the case are local police\, who can’t conceive that middle-aged moms could be capable of such things. But also on their tail are the FBI and a local journalist who suspect their involvement. Set against the backdrop of Trump’s America in 2018\, the novel is a dark comedy of female vengeance that blows open literally a small American town. Michael Nest lives in Montreal. His previous book\, Cold Case North: the search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett was shortlisted for Crime Writers of Canada’s Best Nonfiction Crime Book (2021) and won SaskBooks’ Creative Publishing Award (2022).
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-of-take-out-the-jocks-a-feminist-revenge-comedy/
LOCATION:l’Euguélionne Bookstore\, 1426 rue Beaudry\,\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2L 3E5\, Canada
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