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SUMMARY:Fanny\, her wings on the ground
DESCRIPTION:Launch at Bâton Rouge Saint-Sauveur
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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/2024-04-11/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Poetic Voices: In Bud and In Bloom
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 11\, 2024\, 7:00 pm EDT\n\n\n\nJoin us in person at the Atwater Library Adair Auditorium for the Atwater Poetry Project’s upcoming event: Poetic Voices\, In Bud and In Bloom. Featuring 2023 RBC/PEN New Voices Award winner Christine Wu\, who is based in Halifax\, along with Montreal poet Darby Minott Bradford. Hosted by Emily Tristan Jones. A National Poetry Month event in collaboration with the Atwater Writers Exhibition (AWE) and PEN Canada. Argo Bookshop will be supplying the books for this event\, and admission is free to all\, so we hope to see you there! \n\n\n\nAbout the Poets\n\n\n\nChristine Wu is a poet whose work has appeared in Arc\, Contemporary Verse 2\, The Malahat Review\, and Room\, among other places. She was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in 2022 and the winner of the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices award in 2023. Her debut poetry collection\, Familial Hungers\, is forthcoming with Brick Books in Spring 2025. \n\n\n\nDarby Minott Bradford is a poet and translator based in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). They are the author of Dream of No One but Myself (Brick Books\, 2021)\, which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General’s Literary Awards. House Within a House by Nicholas Dawson (Brick Books\, 2023)\, Bradford’s first translation\, won the VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award\, the John Glassco Translation Prize\, and was a GG finalist. Bottom Rail on Top is their second book. \n\n\n\nEmily Tristan Jones was raised in the subarctic and prairies. She is an alumna of the University of Chicago\, Banff Centre\, and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her first full-length book is Buttercup\, forthcoming from Chicago-based poetry press Verge. Pieces have been in The Puritan\, Harvard Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Vallum\, and many other journals. The first pages of her next book\, A Mess Christ\, are underway. She started Hermes Gallery in Nova Scotia and has curated exhibitions for Dalhousie University and other venues. She lives in Montreal where she edits Columba Poetry (www.columbapoetry.com) and facilitates workshops for Writers in the Community.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetic-voices-in-bud-and-in-bloom/
LOCATION:Adair Auditorium\, Atwater Library\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, top floor\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3Z 1T4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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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/2024-04-11/
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