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SUMMARY:Meet the Authors – Sandra Cohen-Rose and Ann Lambert
DESCRIPTION:Sandra Cohen-Rose and Ann Lambert will introduce their latest novels and discuss the ethical and social justice concerns they weave through their works – Climate Change\, Antisemitism\, White Supremacy\, and Women’s Rights.\nAnn Lambert\, author of the critically acclaimed Russell and Leduc Mystery Series\, The Birds That Stay\, The Dogs of Winter\, and Whale Fall\, has been writing\, directing\, and producing for the theatre for 40 years\, most recently with her Montreal-based company\, Theatre Ouest End. She retired after 30 years of teaching at Dawson College and is the former head of the playwriting program at the National Theatre School of Canada. Ann is also the vice president of The Theresa Foundation.\nSandra Cohen-Rose\, author of Waskaganish\, hailed as a “Multi-Faceted Feast\, a cleverly contrived\, fast-paced story…” and its compelling sequel\, Dangerous Dancing-A Saga of Love\, Deceit and New Beginning\, is a passionate storyteller who seamlessly weaves through her stories her ethical and social justice concerns cultivated during her 15-year tenure on the McGill University Medical Ethics … presiding over the Montreal and the National Council of Women of Canada\, and as a Dietitian-Nutritionist. She is the author of two well-received non-fiction books.
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LOCATION:QC
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SUMMARY:CALQ Grant Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 21\, 1:00–3:30 pmCommunity Digital Arts Hub (460 Sainte Catherine St. W.\, suite 511\, Montreal)Free\, in personLimited to 10 participants (register below)\n\n\n\nCurious about applying to CALQ but looking for some help? QWF is collaborating with Quebec Relations to bring you the support you need.  \n\n\n\nJoin us at the Community Digital Arts Hub on March 21st for an in-person CALQ grant-writing workshop. Experienced grant adviser June Park will walk you through the ins and outs of applying for CALQ project funding. You’ll have the chance to review your own project summary and get feedback and suggestions during the Q&A. \n\n\n\nAbout the Workshop Leader\n\n\n\nJune Park is a writer\, editor\, and consultant with over 20 years of experience in the arts and culture sector. She has worked in various capacities for local and national organizations\, and with emerging to internationally renowned artists of every discipline. She was born in Korea and has lived across Canada from Vancouver to Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal\, where she is currently based. She has an MA in literature from the University of Toronto and was the recipient of the QWF Max Margles Fiction Prize in 2022. \n\n\n\nThis free workshop is open to QWF members only and is limited to 10 participants. To sign up\, sign into your QWF account and fill out the RSVP form below. Please double-check your availability on that day before sending in your RSVP.  \n\n\n\n[07-Mar] This workshop has filled up within minutes of its announcements\, and currently has a long and extensive waitlist. While you are still welcome to put your name on the waitlist by emailing Riley (riley@qwf.org)\, it is unlikely that a spot would open up for new additions at this point. We do encourage you to look up ELAN’s Quebec Relations program which provides free consultations and advice for grant-writing in Quebec. They have an upcoming free online workshop on March 13\, from 12-1pm\, that is specific for CALQ’s Vivacite grant\, which supports professional artists and writers from culturally diverse backgrounds.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/calq-grant-workshop/
LOCATION:Community Digital Arts Hub\, 460 Saint-Catherine St W\, Suite 511\, Montreal\, H3B 1A7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Getting Weird: Crafting Surreal Short Stories
DESCRIPTION:Getting Weird is an 8-week short fiction workshop that focuses on writing strangeness into the everyday\, as a method for exploring and disrupting questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, climate change\, capitalism\, and other big topics. Participants will read a wide range of writers who delve into the weird\, such as Paige Cooper\, Giada Scodellaro\, Renee Gladman\, Hiromi Goto\, Mariana Enriquez\, Carmen Maria Machado\, and Callum Angus. They will be given an array of writing prompts\, designed to investigate different aspects of surreal fiction\, and will also have the opportunity to give and receive feedback on short pieces of writing. \n\n\n\nWeird fiction contains elements of the eerie\, the uncanny\, and the surreal\, and encourages high levels of playfulness and perceptiveness\, two key elements of compelling storytelling. Weird fiction can also serve as a strong vehicle for writers from underrepresented groups to remake the world in ways that decenter white\, colonial\, hetero-cis-normative worldviews. Prompts will include the following topics: \n\n\n\n\nWeird micro-fiction\n\n\n\nEngaging the senses\n\n\n\nWeirdness at work (parsing the rituals of capitalism and labour)\n\n\n\nGender euphoria/queer weirdos\n\n\n\nReworking ancestral mythologies\n\n\n\nDream logics\n\n\n\n\nParticipants will receive prompts the week before each session (except before the first meeting)\, and will be given a rota (workshopping schedule) in advance. Each participant will have at least one opportunity to submit one piece of writing (up to 2000 words) to the group\, which will be discussed in-session by their peers\, with additional feedback provided by the instructor. These submissions should be based on one or more of the prompts given in the workshop. Participants should be prepared to do the following homework between sessions: responding to writing prompts\, reading one assigned piece of fiction\, providing feedback to their peers. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is open to new fiction writers\, as well as writers who already have a developed fiction practice. Participants should emerge from the workshop with one or two solid short story drafts\, and a confidence in their ability to unsettle the status quo on the page. \n\n\n\nH Felix Chau Bradley is the author of Personal Attention Roleplay (Metonymy Press)\, which was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Kobo Rakuten Emerging Writer Prize in 2022; and the chapbook Automatic Object Lessons (House House Press). Their writing has appeared in carte blanche\, ESPACE art actuel\, the Humber Literary Review\, Maisonneuve Magazine\, the Montreal Review of Books\, PRISM International\, Weird Era\, Xtra and elsewhere. They live in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)\, and work as an editor for Metonymy Press\, This Magazine\, and Le Sigh. They were recently awarded QWF’s carte blanche Prize.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/getting-weird-crafting-surreal-short-stories/2024-03-21/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Writers Read and The Canadian School for Irish Studies Present Lisa McInerney
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read\, a Concordia-based reading series\, in collaboration with the Canadian School of Irish Studies\, is eager to host Lisa McInerney. Lisa McInerney is the author of three novels: The Glorious Heresies (2015)\, The Blood Miracles (2017)\, and The Rules of Revelation (2021). She has won the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction\, the Desmond Elliott Prize\, the RSL Encore Award\, and the Premio Edoardo Kihlgren for European Literature. The Boston Globe describes McInerney’s writing as “vibrantly-drawn\, richly-rendered\, and wonderfully full of surprises.” \nWriters Read is part of Concordia University’s Creative Writing program and is supported by the Department of English and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Writers Read\, directed by Professor Sina Queyras since 2011\, invites renowned and emerging authors\, both Canadian and international\, to read from and discuss their work with students and local audiences. In addition to readings\, the series includes Master Classes and professional developmental activities spanning the school year. \nFor more information and updates\, follow @writersreadconcordia on Instagram
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-read-presents-lisa-mcinerney/
LOCATION:York Ampitheatre\, 1515\, Sainte-Catherine Street West\, Montreal\, Qc\, H3H 1L8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Speculative Fiction Master Class: Readying Your Work for Publication
DESCRIPTION:As in all of my workshops\, speculative fiction is defined broadly to include anything from science fiction to fantasy to slipstream to magic realism. Participants are free to submit a short story\, an excerpt from a larger work\, a script\, speculative poetry\, a comic\, or graphic novel excerpt. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will consist of ten sessions so as to give each participant the opportunity to workshop their piece twice: once for initial feedback and a second time once revisions have been made. We will begin by having each workshop member introduce themselves and their project\, including their intentions. Following these introductions\, I will give a brief presentation on different vectors of analysis in evaluating a piece\, including: \n\n\n\n\n         story\, plot arc\, and pacingworldbuildingcharacter\, POV\, voice\, and tonedescriptions and other issues of language and writing qualitytheme and meaning/intention\n\nbeginnings and endings\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn week 1\, we will workshop a very short story that participants should read before we meet: Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” In discussing this story\, participants will have the opportunity to practice both the workshopping method and vectors of analysis that we will be employing during subsequent sessions. \n\n\n\nIn weeks 2 through 9\, we will workshop two to three submissions at each session. There will also be discussions and exchanges on a topic or topics related to one or more of the vectors of analysis mentioned in the first session. These topics will not be determined in advance\, but will flow organically from the submissions discussed that particular week. \n\n\n\nThe last session will be reserved for an in-depth presentation on maximizing your chances of publication\, including a list of resources\, and a guest presentation by a speculative fiction publisher. I will also answer any new questions that may have arisen in previous sessions. \n\n\n\n*This workshop will take place at the QWF Office (Room 3\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec) with up to 2 virtual spots for participants who are unable to attend in-person. By default\, all workshop registrations are for in-person spots. If you would like to attend the workshop via Zoom\, first email Riley (riley@qwf.org) to see if online spots are still available for this workshop\, and then wait for confirmation. Virtual spots are limited and are reserved for people who either live outside Montreal or have a medical condition. \n\n\n\nSu J  Sokol is a writer of speculative and interstitial fiction as well as an editor. Xe is the author of three novels: Cycling to Asylum\, long-listed for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic and optioned for a film; Run J Run; and Zee\, a finalist for the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Les lignes invisibles\, the French translation of Cycling to Asylum\, was published in 2022 by VLB Imaginaire. Sokol’s short fiction and essays have appeared in various magazines and anthologies.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/speculative-fiction-master-class-readying-your-work-for-publication/2024-03-21/
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