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SUMMARY:2025 Ireland Writing Retreat
DESCRIPTION:May 18-27\, 2025 join a small group (12 maximum) of writers focused on making a connection with Land. This retreat\, in Rural Ireland (Doolin\, County Clare) is at a UNESCO geopark and a town that has created a cooperative to promote ecotourism that contributes to their way of life rather than destroys it. Retreat is 10 days with 4 writing workshops with Irish writers\, 2 meals/day included (with 1 left out so you can explore the village’s farm-to-table and sea-to-table offerings)\, and more. Please see: https://www.nature-culture.net/ireland-retreat-2025preview (note prices of $1500-$2500 are in USD). Co-led by QWF member Lis McLoughlin\, and Irish Rural Writing Collective founder and director Ryan Dennis.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/2025-ireland-writing-retreat/
LOCATION:Doolin\, Ireland\, Doolin\, County Clare\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:"The Sustainability Class" - book launch / lancement du livre
DESCRIPTION:Join us in welcoming Vijay Kolinjivadi & Aaron Vansintjan to Pulp Books on May 22 for an enlightening conversation about their book The Sustainability Class\, building an ecological future\, and how “lifestyle environmentalism” has made cities more unsustainable and inaccessible to the working class. Hosted by Quebec Solidaire’s MNA for Verdun\, Alejandra Zaga Mendez\, this will not be an evening to miss!  // Nous vous invitons au lancement de Vijay Kolinjivadi et Aaron Vansintjan le 22 mai prochain pour une conversation enrichissante sur leur livre\, The Sustainability Class. Les auteurs discuteront de la construction d’un avenir écologique avec l’honorable Alejandra Zaga Mendez\, députée pour Verdun. Bref\, une soirée à ne pas manquer! Début de l’événement à 19h / ouverture des portes à 18h45
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-sustainability-class-book-launch-lancement-du-livre/
LOCATION:Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe\, 3952 Wellington Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4G1V3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Soliloquies Launch\, 29.2
DESCRIPTION:Soliloquies Anthology is launching their 29.2 issue!\nHear readings by contributors\, as well as our featured readers Morgan Gordon and Jade Palmer.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/soliloquies-launch-29-2/
LOCATION:Cardinal Tearoom\, 5326 St Laurent Blvd\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Poetry Launch: Christine Wu and Jessica Bebenek
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 22\, 2025\, 7:00–9:30 pm ETmai/son (DM hosts for address)\n\n\n\nJoin Christine Wu and Jessica Bebenek for the Montreal launch of their poetry collections\, Familial Hungers by Wu (Brick Books) and No One Knows Us There by Bebenek (Book*hug Press). \n\n\n\nFeaturing guest reader Liz Howard and musical guest Andrew Whiteman.  \n\n\n\nBYOBAdmission is free. All are welcome to attend. \n\n\n\nMessage Jessica Bebenek at @notyrmuse or Christine Wu at @homemadepoem on Instagram for the address. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout No One Knows Us There\n\n\n\nIn this stunning debut collection\, Bronwen Wallace Award finalist Jessica Bebenek presents two distinct and moving portraits of early womanhood. The first is that of the devoted\, caregiving granddaughter navigating hospital hallways and the painful realities of palliative care. The second is that of a woman a decade older\, compassionately looking back on her younger self. In this second half\, Bebenek rewrites poems from the first\, honouring unimaginable loss and turning it into genuine healing. \n\n\n\nJessica Bebenek is a queer interdisciplinary poet and educator from Tkaronto (Toronto) who now splits her time between Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) and an off-grid shack on unceded Anishinaabeg territory. She works as a risograph printer and bookmaker at Concordia University’s Centre for Expanded Poetics\, where she organized the international Occult Poetics Symposium. In 2021\, Bebenek was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust of Canada RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Her writing has been nominated for the Journey Prize and Pushcart Prize\, and she is the author of eight poetry chapbooks\, including I Remember the Exorcism. No One Knows Us There is her first book of poetry. \n\n\n\nAbout Familial Hungers\n\n\n\nBittersweet\, numbingly spicy\, herbal and milky\, Familial Hungers is a lyric feast. Ginger scallion fish\, Sichuan peppercorns\, ginseng tea\, Chinese school and white chefs – the reader’s appetite is satiated with these poems’ complex palate. There are the bubbling expectations for immigrant daughters\, the chewy strands of colonial critique\, and dissolving crystals of language loss. Wu relentlessly searches the grocery shelves for the hard-to-digest ingredients of identity and belonging\, offering us her nourishing honesty and courage pulled from the marrow. \n\n\n\nChristine Wu is a Chinese-Canadian poet who was born and raised on the territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh (Vancouver\, BC). She has a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria\, a MLIS from Dalhousie University\, and a MA in English from the University of New Brunswick. In 2023\, she was the winner of the RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award and in 2022\, she was shortlisted for the RBC Writers’ Trust Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. She now lives and writes in Kjipuktuk (Halifax\, NS) in Mi’kma’ki.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetry-launch-christine-wu-and-jessica-bebenek/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:World Premiere of Michaela Di Cesare's play Mickey & Joe (Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty)
DESCRIPTION:150 years (give or take) after the “unification” of Italy\, a forgotten player finds herself trapped in limbo with her sworn enemy. Dirty Mickey\, hailing from the dark Southern underbelly of an otherwise glorious country\, was a soldier in the resistance. Joe was the golden boy of the Risorgimento (literally\, resurrection)\,  forever remembered as a political hero. What will happen when Mickey\, an outlaw who was silenced\, murdered and erased for his benefit\, comes after his legacy today?  This contemporary spaghetti western challenges our collective memory\, or collective amnesia.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/world-premiere-of-michaela-di-cesares-play-mickey-joe-good-bad-ugly-dirty/2025-05-22/
LOCATION:Mirella & Lino Saputo Theatre\, 8370 boul lacordaire\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2K 4K2\, Canada
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