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SUMMARY:The Writer Is In: Pop-Up Writing Booth
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 19\, 12-2 pmOutside Centre St. Jax1439 Sainte-Catherine St. W.\, Montreal\n\n\n\nJoin us for The Writer Is In\, a free series of pop-up writing booths we’re organizing in and around downtown Montreal in October and November. \n\n\n\nOn October 19\, from 12 to 2 pm\, we’ll be outside Centre St. Jax on Sainte-Catherine Street with writers from QWF’s Hire a Writer Directory\, who will be offering free writing services to passers-by. They’ll be there to take on any writing request you may have\, from business letters to love letters and everything in between. Stop by\, say hi\, and treat yourself to some poetic pampering. \n\n\n\nPart of our Writing Matters campaign to raise awareness about writers’ value to our culture\, society\, and economy. \n\n\n\n\nView All Writer Is In Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-writer-is-in-oct-19/
LOCATION:St. Jax\, 1439 St. Catherine street west\, montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 1S6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance,Writing Matters
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SUMMARY:A reading with Kasia Van Schaik & Padma Viswanathan
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 19\, 5:30 pmMaxwell Cohen Moot Court\, New Chancellor Day Hall\, McGill3644 Peel Street\, MontrealFree\, open to all\n\n\n\nThe Department of English invites you to a joint reading with the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated authors Kasia Van Schaik & Padma Viswanathan. The readings will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Professor Ara Osterweil. This event does not require registration. \n\n\n\nKasia Juno Van Schaik is the author of the linked story collection We Have Never Lived on Earth\, which was nominated for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2022 Concordia University First Book Prize. Her writing has appeared in the LA Review of Books\, CBC Books\, Maisonneuve Magazine\, Best Canadian Poetry\, Electric Literature\, The Rumpus and more. Kasia holds a PhD in Literature from McGill University\, where she teaches creative writing. She is currently working on a book of cultural criticism and memoir entitled Women Among Monuments. In 2021\, Kasia served as a CBC QWF writer-in-residence. \n\n\n\nPadma Viswanathan is a Canadian-American novelist\, published in eight countries and shortlisted for the PEN USA Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Recent publications include Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime and São Bernardo\, a translation of a novel by Brazilian novelist Graciliano Ramos. Forthcoming works include a novel\, The Charterhouse of Padma\, and a translation of Djamila Ribeiro’s Where We Stand: Notes on Speech\, Place and Justice. Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas\, she divides her time between Fayetteville and Montréal.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/a-reading-with-kasia-van-schaik-padma-viswanathan/
LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court\, 3644 Peel Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 1W9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:StoryFest 2023: Anita Anand
DESCRIPTION:Anita Anand is a Montreal author and translator. Her collection of short stories entitled Swing in the House won the 2015 Concordia University First Book Award and was nominated for a couple of others. Her novel\, A Convergence of Solitudes was a finalist in 2022 for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was nominated for a 2022 Foreward Indies Award; it has won the 2023 IPPY gold medal in the category of Multicultural Fiction and is also shortlisted for this year’s Ontario Library Association’s Evergreen Award. Her translation of Nirliit\, a novel by Juliana Léveillé-Trudel won her a nomination for the John Glassco prize for a first translation. As the Andes Disappeared\, Anita’s translation of Là où je me terre by Caroline Dawson\, will be in bookstores in November. The Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) is a co-sponsor for this event through their Writers’ Out Loud series. \n\n\n\nTickets are available here or as a cash-only purchase at Que de Bonnes Choses (484-D rue Main\, Hudson). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/storyfest-2023-anita-anand/
LOCATION:Hudson Creative Hub\, 273 rue Main\, Hudson\, Quebec\, J0P 1H0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Writers Out Loud
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