Edit Your Own Prose: The Art of Rewriting
QWF Office 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, WestmountThe workshop will focus on big-picture issues, including story line, character development, and genre expectations, and help you bring the story alive on the page through rhythm, effective dialogue, and language choices.
2024 Annual General Meeting
Adair Auditorium Atwater Library, 1200 Atwater Avenue, top floor, MontrealThe Quebec Writers' Federation Annual General Meeting will be held Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 7:00 pm at the Adair Auditorium and online via Zoom. The meeting is open to all QWF members.
Book Launch: Summer in Furnished Rooms by Marc Plourde
The Word Bookstore 469 Milton Street, MontrealJoin us for the launch of Marc Plourde's new poetry collection Summer in Furnished Rooms (Cormorant Books) at The Word Bookstore. Featuring special guest Robyn Sarah.
Speaking Truth to Power: How to Write Non-Didactic Political Poetry
QWF Office 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, WestmountThis 8-week poetry workshop focuses on writing poetry that engages with social justice and politics without leaning too far into didacticism and prescriptiveness, without sounding too preachy or like a chant in a march.
QWF Annual Timeline
January
- Deadline to apply for the Max Margles Writing Residency (postponed to Feb-March for 2024 Residency)
- Mentorship pairings announced
- Writers in the Community Pyramid Campaign Fundraiser opens
February
- Deadline to submit projects for StoryScaping: Creative Word-Shops for Youth and Seniors
April
- The QWF Annual General Meeting (AGM) is held
- Writers in the Community Pyramid Campaign closes
- Applications for StoryScaping program begins for organizations
May
- Call for proposals for QWF Workshops
June
- Deadline for submissions for the QWF Literary Awards
- Nominations open for the Judy Mappin Community Award
- Call for applications to the Writers in CEGEPs program
- QWF Mentorship Program reading
July
- Deadline for applications to Writers in CEGEPs program
August
- Deadline for submissions for the Judy Mappin Community Award
- The QWF Annual Membership Picnic
- Registration for Fall Workshops opens
September
- Call for applications for the QWF Mentorship Program
- Call for applications for the Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship Program for Underrepresented Writers
October
- Fall Workshops begin
- Shortlist for the QWF Literary Awards announced
- Shortlist for the carte blanche Prize announced
November
- The QWF Awards Gala
- The AELAQ/QWF Holiday Book Fair
- Get Lit! at Salon du livre
- Deadline for QWF Mentorship applications
December
- Call for applications for Max Margles Writing Residency (postponed to February-March for 2024 Residency)
- Registration for Winter-Spring Workshops opens
- QWF Office closes for the last two weeks of December. Happy holidays!