BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Quebec Writers' Federation - ECPv6.18.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Quebec Writers' Federation
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://qwf.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Quebec Writers' Federation
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20270314T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20271107T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261213T170000
DTSTAMP:20260922T204317Z
CREATED:20260922T204317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T204317Z
UID:10005598-1792231200-1797181200@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Centaur Theatre Family Classes
DESCRIPTION:This fall\, Centaur Theatre invites children and their parents/caregivers to make theatre\, explore backstage\, and unleash their imaginations together. \nLed by professional theatre artists and educators Alison Darcy and Jesse Stong\, Centaur+ Family Classes are playful\, hands-on workshops where families can discover storytelling\, movement\, improvisation\, character creation and the joy of making something together. \nNo theatre experience necessary. Just bring your imagination!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/centaur-theatre-family-classes/
LOCATION:Centaur Theatre\, 453 St. Francois-Xavier\, Montreal\, Quebec\, HZY 2T1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://qwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Centaur-Family-Classes-Oct-17-Dec-13th-Ages-6-12.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261207
DTSTAMP:20261106T172631Z
CREATED:20261106T171040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261106T172631Z
UID:10005714-1796428800-1796601599@qwf.org
SUMMARY:2026 Read Quebec Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:The Read Quebec Book Fair returns to Casa d’Italia December 5-6\, 2026! Join us for special events\, author signings\, and the latest releases from Canadian writers and publishers. \nProduced by the Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec (AELAQ)\, the Fair celebrates the vibrancy of English-language writing\, publishing\, and translation in Quebec. \nTaking place in the historic Casa d’Italia\, the Fair will present a full weekend of programming\, including a Lightning Round with local poets\, an event with graphic novelists Lee Lai and Arizona O’Neill\, and a conversation with Everyday Reconciliation authors Derek Aronhie:nens Montour and Elin Sandberg Miller. We’ll also be hosting another edition of Speed-dating for Writers and Editors\, where up-and-coming and seasoned wordsmiths will have the opportunity to deliver their pitches directly to publishers\, as well as a panel discussion on publishing in translation. \nThe Fair will offer plenty of fun for young booklovers in the cozy\, book-filled Babar Kids’ Nook both days\, and a storytime reading with Gillian Sze. \nStick around for our 5 à 7 opening cocktail on Saturday for delicious hors d’oeuvres and a chance to connect with Montreal’s vibrant literary community. \nCasa d’Italia is located at 505 Jean-Talon East\, and is fully accessible to wheelchairs and strollers. The Fair takes place on the second floor\, accessible via stairs or elevator. Take the entrance on Berri Street\, across the street from Jean-Talon metro (exit Jean-Talon Nord). \n2026 Read Quebec Book Fair: See All Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/2026-read-quebec-book-fair/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Read Quebec Book Fair
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://qwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Copy-of-RQBF_2026_Web_Banners_V1_Web-scaled-2.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261206T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261206T123000
DTSTAMP:20261106T173152Z
CREATED:20261106T173111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261106T173152Z
UID:10005721-1796554800-1796560200@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Speed Dating for Writers and Publishers!
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Gallery\, Casa d’Italia \nWriters\, bring your pitch and get ready to present it to a range of local publishers. This edition will focus on poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. Introduce yourselves\, and then you’ll have three minutes to tell your publisher “date” what your book is all about. Don’t forget to leave time for questions or a little discussion. When the bell dings\, move to the next available seat and do it again. Whether you find a home for your manuscript or not\, you’ll make contacts and gather information that may serve you now and in the future. \nWith: \n\nFiona Jeffries\nLis McLoughlin\nConnie McParland or Michael Mirolla\nManahil Bandukwala\n\nModerated by Remy Attig \nRemy Attig\, PhD\, is the executive director of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Prior to joining QWF\, Remy worked as an associate professor of sociolinguistics and translation\, where their research focused on minority/minoritized language communities. In a pre-academic life\, they worked as the senior director of operations at the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE)\, the operations manager of the David Suzuki Foundation\, and the executive director of Projet 10 / Project 10\, Montreal’s longest-running organization supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ youth. Through their research\, teaching\, writing\, and activism\, Remy demonstrates that the way people tell their stories\, and the language(s) they choose to use\, are often as important as the message they share with the world. \nManahil Bandukwala is the author of Heliotropia (Brick Books 2024; shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award\, the Raymond Souster Award\, and the Ottawa Book Award\, and winner of the Archibald Lampman Award) and MONUMENT (Brick Books 2022). She was selected as a Writer’s Trust of Canada Rising Star in 2023. She is currently Managing Editor for Brick Books. See her work at manahilbandukwala.com. \nConnie Guzzo McParland\, President and Co‑director of Guernica Editions\, holds a BA in Italian Literature and an MA in Creative Writing from Concordia University. She is the author of the novels The Girls of Piazza d’Amore (2013) and The Women of Saturn (2017)\, the latter translated into Italian as Le donne di Saturno (2019). Her nonfiction work includes the biography An Opera in 3 Acts\, translated into French as Un opéra en 3 actes (2021). She also translated The Twelfth Room\, the English edition of La Dodicesima Stanza. Her latest work\, Stitch by Stitch\, Punto per punto\, De fil à aiguille\, launching in March 2027\, is a collection of stories and testimonials about Italian immigrant women who laboured in the garment industry in Quebec. \nHer writing has been recognized with numerous distinctions\, including the Concordia University David McKeen Award in Creative Writing (2008) for her thesis Girotondo; a shortlist nomination for the Quebec Writers’ Federation First Book Award for The Girls of Piazza d’Amore (2013). \nFiona Jeffries (she/her) is an Acquisitions and Development editor at Fernwood Publishing\, a worker-run independent book publisher that focuses on critical perspectives across a range of subjects and voices. In keeping with Fernwood’s mission\, her editorial work is wide ranging and informed by her academic training and activist commitments. \nLis McLoughlin\, PhD is the founder and director of NatureCulture® www.nature-culture.net\, a publishing company through which she directs the Writing the Land® Project www.writingtheland.org\, which pairs poets with conserved lands\, and creates anthologies sold for land conservation. Lis has degrees in Civil Engineering\, Education\, and Science and Technology Studies. She lives off-grid in Northfield\, Massachusetts and part-time in Montréal\, Québec. \n2026 Read Quebec Book Fair: See All Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/speed-dating-for-writers-and-publishers-2/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Networking,Panel,Read Quebec Book Fair
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://qwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Speed-Dating.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261206T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261206T121500
DTSTAMP:20261106T173319Z
CREATED:20261106T173319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261106T173319Z
UID:10005722-1796555700-1796559300@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Space Cases: Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau and Francis Desharnais in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Rotunda\, Casa d’Italia \nModerated by François Vigneault \nFeaturing author Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau and illustrator Francis Desharnais\, this treat for fans of comics and history alike will spotlight Conquest of the Cosmos\, a withering satire of politics\, ideology\, and human ambition that couldn’t be more relevant to our current moment. \n2026 Read Quebec Book Fair: See All Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/space-cases-alexandre-fontaine-rousseau-and-francis-desharnais-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel,Read Quebec Book Fair
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://qwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Pow-Pow-Event.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261206T130000
DTSTAMP:20261106T174343Z
CREATED:20261106T173443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261106T174343Z
UID:10005723-1796558400-1796562000@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Ah-Ma’s Home with Gillian Sze
DESCRIPTION:Located at Babar Books Kids Nook\, Casa d’Italia \nPoet and children’s book author Gillian Sze will read her beautiful new book\, Ah Ma’s Home\, to kids of all ages in the Babar Kids’ Book Nook. The story of a child whose grandmother tells enchanting stories of her childhood in China\, Ah Ma’s Home tenderly engages with immigration\, relationships bridging generations\, and the way a child’s imagination helps her understand how to fit into her world. Gillian will be available to sign books following the reading at the Babar Books table. \nGillian Sze is a poet and children’s writer. She is the recipient of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for Quiet Night Think and the QWF’s A. M. Klein Poetry Prize for her latest book\, An Orange\, A Syllable. Her books for children have been shortlisted for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards and CBC Kids Read. She teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University. \n2026 Read Quebec Book Fair: See All Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/ah-mas-home-with-gillian-sze/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Read Quebec Book Fair,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://qwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Gillian-Sze-Event.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261206T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261206T133000
DTSTAMP:20261106T174233Z
CREATED:20261106T173632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261106T174233Z
UID:10005724-1796560200-1796563800@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Poetry Lightning Round
DESCRIPTION:With: \n\nTanya Bellehumeur-Allatt\, The Hospitality of Trees\nAlexei Perry Cox\, Space\nSabyah Seyam\, On Occasion contributor\nLeigh Kotsilidis\, Some of Us May Live\nSina Queyras\, On Occasion (ed.)\nChanel Sutherland\, On Occasion contributor\nMisha Solomon\, My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet\nErín Moure\, On Occasion contributor\nNicole Rayiza Fong\, SUBTEXT \n\nModerated by Jason Camlot \nA wide range of local poets will share tasty snippets from their new books in a fun\, fast-paced and festive Lightning Round of the most current Quebec poetry in English. Five authors of new books and five contributors to the anthology On Occasion will give you just enough to whet your appetite for more. Stay and get your new books signed after the event. \nTanya Bellehumeur-Allatt is the author of the critically acclaimed Carrying War (Dundurn\, 2026)\, featured in the Globe and Mail as one of the 36 Best Books of Summer. Her debut memoir\, Peacekeeper’s Daughter (Thistledown\, 2021)\, was a finalist for the Mavis Gallant Nonfiction Award. Tanya has two poetry collections: Chaos Theories of Goodness (Shoreline\, 2022) and The Hospitality of Trees (Shoreline\, 2025). She lives in North Hatley\, QC. \nJason Camlot is the author of five collections of poetry including The Animal Library (DC Books\, 2000)\, What The World Said (Mansfield\, 2013)\, and Vlarf (McGill Queen’s\, 2021)\, and most recently\, a constellation of chapbooks (released by Vallum\, Apartment 9\, above/ground\, No Press\, and Turret House Press) presenting sections from the Shooky sessions\, collaboratively composed by listening and writing\, with Stuart Ross. Jason’s critical works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford\, 2019) and the co-edited collections\, Collection Thinking (Routledge\, 2024)\, Unpacking the Personal Library (Wilfrid Laurier UP\, 2023)\, and CanLit Across Media (McGill-Queen’s UP\, 2019). He is Professor of English at Concordia University. \nLeigh Kotsilidis has written two full-length collections of poetry\, Hypotheticals (2011) and Some of Us May Live (2026)\, both with Coach House Books. Her poems have also appeared in journals and magazines\, including The Malahat Review\, Prism international\, EVENT\, The Fiddlehead\, Prairie Fire\, and Hazlitt\, as well as being anthologized in The Best Canadian Poetry in English and IV Lounge Nights\, among others. She is also an intermedia artist. Kotsilidis lives and works in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal). \nErín Moure is a poet and translator. She has published 19 books of poetry\, and translations of more than 25 books of poetry by others from Galician\, Spanish\, French\, and Portuguese (including Nicole Brossard\, Andrés Ajens\, Chantal Neveu\, Rosalia de Castro\, Chus Pato\, Fernando Pessoa). Her most recent book is Theophylline: a poetic migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser\, Bishop\, Grimké (Anansi\, 2023)\, and her most recent translation is of Galician poet Chus Pato’s Sonora (Veliz Books\, 2026). \nSina Queyras is a Montreal/Tiohtià:ke-based writer\, professor\, editor\, and literary organizer. Recent work includes Rooms (2022)\, a blend of memoir\, poetry\, and criticism offering a peek into the defining spaces of the author as a young queer writer\, and My Ariel (2017)\, a collection riffing on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel\, reimagining\, queering\, and inhabiting its iconic poems. They are the author of multiple poetry collections\, including Lemon Hound\, which won the Pat Lowther and Lambda awards and Expressway\, nominated for a Governor General’s Award. Queyras was also a co-editor of Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader (2020)\, which traces the essential feminist poet’s innovation\, experimentation\, and activism across her body of work. They recently edited On Occasion: Poems for the People (Coach House Books 2026). \nNicole Raziya Fong (they / she) is a poet\, editor\, and painter living in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal\, Québec\, Canada. They are the author of SUBTEXT (2026\, Talonbooks)\, ORACULE (2021\, Talonbooks)\, PERFACT (2019\, Talonbooks)\, and other works. Writing appears in journals including The Capilano Review\, carte blanche\, and Social Text. Their work has received support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. Their work seeks to delimit and reconstruct immaterial ampoules of psychic experience\, coaxing the incorporeal into inhabiting a more muscular physique. \nSabyah Seyam is a Palestinian writer born and currently based in Tiohtià:ke (so-called Montreal). She holds a BA in Creative Writing from Concordia University\, where she is currently completing her MA in the same program. She was a poetry editor of Soliloquies Anthology. Her publications include Yolk\, Frontier Poetry\, The Malahat Review\, and Coach House’s 2026 anthology\, On Occasion: Poems for the People. Sabyah’s current writerly interests include colonized identities\, the working class\, the power of language\, and the power of privacy in a hyper-connected world. \nMisha Solomon is a homosexual poet in and of Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. His work has appeared in journals across Canada and has been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2024\, 2026\, and 2027 (Biblioasis) and in On Occasion: Poems for the People (Coach House). He is a student in Concordia University’s Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD program. He is the author of three chapbooks and his full-length debut\, My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet\, was released by Brick Books in March 2026. \nChanel Sutherland is a Vincentian Canadian writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. She won the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize and the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize and was named one of CBC Books 30 Writers to Watch in 2022. Chanel is also the overall winner of the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She has a BA in English literature from Concordia University and lives in Montreal\, Quebec. Her first collection of short stories\, titled Layaway Child\, is out now from House of Anansi. \n2026 Read Quebec Book Fair: See All Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetry-lightning-round/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Read Quebec Book Fair,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://qwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Poetry-Lightning-Round.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261206T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261206T144500
DTSTAMP:20261106T173758Z
CREATED:20261106T173758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261106T173758Z
UID:10005725-1796564700-1796568300@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Véhicule Showcase: Who Gets Remembered?
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Rotunda\, Casa d’Italia \nWhat do a coming-of-age novel that takes place in Bombay\, a collection of essays on forgotten women jazz musicians\, and a novel that celebrates Montreal and a ghost have in common? All three books are amazing and entertaining acts of remembering or recovery. Come and meet Zeenat Nagree (My Summer Vacation)\, David Homel (translator of Black Satin by Stanley Péan)\, and Éric Dupont (The Colour of Time\, or the Incredible Story of Mary Gallagher) in conversation with Dimitri Nasrallah. \nWith: \n\nZeenat Nagree\nDavid Homel\nÉric Dupont\n\nZeenat Nagree is an independent writer and curator who grew up in Bombay and now divides her time between India and Canada. Having studied art history in Chicago\, she writes on contemporary art and curates exhibitions. My Summer Vacation is her first book. \nDavid Homel is the author of ten novels and a memoir\, as well as a series of books for younger readers co-written with Marie-Louise Gay. A prize-winning writer and translator\, he has worked in documentary film\, print and radio journalism. He lives in Montreal. \nBorn in Amqui\, Quebec\, Éric Dupont studied at Carleton University\, the Free University of Berlin\, the Université de Montréal and the University of Toronto. Dupont’s La fiancée américaine\, released in 2012\, won the Prix des libraires du Québec and the Prix littéraire des collégiens. Its English translation\, Songs for the Cold of Heart\, translated by Peter McCambridge\, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2018 and subsequently published by HarperCollins outside of Canada as The American Fiancée. Éric Dupont lives in Montreal. \nModerator: \nDimitri Nasrallah is the author of four novels\, including Hotline\, a Canadian bestseller that was long-listed for the 2022 Giller Prize and was a 2023 finalist for Canada Reads. Nasrallah was born in Lebanon in 1977\, during the country’s civil war\, and moved to Canada in 1988. His previous books include The Bleeds (2018); Niko (2011)\, which won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction; and Blackbodying (2005)\, which won Quebec’s McAuslan First Book Prize. His books have also been nominated for the Dublin Literary Award and the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. Nasrallah was the fiction editor of Esplanade Books from 2013 to 2025\, and currently teaches creative writing at Concordia University. He lives in Montreal. \n2026 Read Quebec Book Fair: See All Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/vehicule-showcase-who-gets-remembered/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel,Read Quebec Book Fair
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://qwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Vehicule-Showcase.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261206T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261206T160000
DTSTAMP:20261106T174227Z
CREATED:20261106T174004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261106T174227Z
UID:10005726-1796569200-1796572800@qwf.org
SUMMARY:InfiniPRESS Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Rotunda\, Casa d’Italia \nWith: \n\nZach Fraser\, Whalefall (collaborator)\nAshe Lang\, Whalefall\n\nRiley Wilson\, Whalefall (collaborator)\nMohsen El Gharbi\, Omi Mouna\n\nLeanna Brodie\, Omi Mouna (translator)\nCatherine Chabot\, Clean Slate\n\nJennie Herbin\, Clean Slate (translator)\n\nModerated by Zach Fraser. \nCome hear from InfiniPRESS\, Montreal’s young and dynamic publisher of playwrights’ new work originating in English and in translation. \nLeanna Brodie is a leading translator of Québécois and Franco-Canadian playwrights. Recent productions: David Paquet’s The Weight of Ants and The Shoe (The Cherry Arts\, Ithaca NY) and Wildfire (Factory Theatre\, Toronto ON\, Talisman Theatre\, Montréal QC\, and Upstream Theater\, St. Louis MO); Catherine Léger’s Home Deliveries (Ruby Slippers Theatre/Jericho Arts Centre\, Vancouver); Fanny Britt’s Benevolence (GCTC\, Ottawa); Sébastien Harrisson’s From Alaska (Belfry Theatre\, Victoria)\, and Rébecca Déraspe’s I Am William (Stratford Festival). Brodie is currently translating Rébecca Déraspe’s Those Who Have Vanished (The Search Party) and River Ice\, Breaking (Talisman Theatre) and Nathalie Doummar’s Sissi (Ruby Slippers). Her translations have won two PGC Tom Hendry Awards and a Dora Mavor Moore Award. She is also an award-winning playwright and performer: Salesman in China (co-written with Jovanni Sy) was staged at the Stratford Festival and National Arts Centre in 2024\, winning the QWF Prize for Best New Play. Learn more about her work at www.leannabrodie.com. \nMohsen El Gharbi defines himself as a theatre craftsman — an approach shaped by his Lecoq training at Lassaad in Brussels\, where the actor is the author of his own work. Deeply committed to the solo form\, he has created six one-man shows exploring themes of violence\, identity\, and memory. As a writer and performer\, his work has toured across Canada and Europe. For his work on Omi Mouna – A Fantastic Encounter with My Great-Grandmother\, Mohsen was nominated in the category of Outstanding Lead Performance at the Montreal English Theatre Awards (METAs). His documentary Omi Mouna’s Secret travelled to festivals on three continents. He continues to write\, perform\, and create. \nAshe Lang is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist specializing in handcrafted props and accessories for film and live performance. Raised near the ocean in the Dominican Republic\, Ashe developed a deep reverence for the sea from an early age. Certified as a SCUBA diver at 11\, her firsthand encounters with both the breathtaking wonder of marine life and the stark impacts of human activity have continually drawn her back to ocean conservation. Over the past decade\, Ashe has honed her craft in design\, painting\, and detailed prop fabrication for major productions\, including Cirque du Soleil (Alegría\, Kà\, The Beatles LOVE)\, blockbuster films\, and local theatre. She is also a passionate writer whose short stories have earned multiple accolades. Whalefall is her first play to be produced and published. \n2026 Read Quebec Book Fair: See All Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/infinipress-showcase/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Read Quebec Book Fair,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://qwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/InfiniPRESS-Showcase.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261206T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261206T160000
DTSTAMP:20261106T174222Z
CREATED:20261106T174139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261106T174222Z
UID:10005727-1796569200-1796572800@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Seeing Things: Lee Lai and Arizona O’Neill in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Salle des Célébrations\, Main Stage\, Casa d’Italia \nFrom spectral magpies to Frankenstein’s Monster (actually he much prefers “Frankie”)\, unsettling visions haunt the protagonists of Cannon and Opioids & Organs\, two of the most talked-about graphic narratives of the last year. Join Montreal authors Lee Lai and Arizona O’Neill for a freewheeling conversation about blurring the boundaries between the real and the imaginary\, tackling “intergenerational trauma shit” both obliquely and head-on\, and why the comic book medium is the ideal form for true stories\, invented tales\, and everything in between. Featuring short readings from both authors. Moderated by François Vigneault. \nArizona O’Neill is a Montreal author and illustrator. She is the illustrator of Nelly Arcan’s L’enfant dans le miroir and Heather O’Neill’s Valentine in Montreal. Her comics have appeared in Hazlitt\, Exclaim!\, Canadian Geographic\, and the Montreal Gazette. She has created animated videos for many outlets\, including CBC. Opioids and Organs is her debut graphic novel out with Drawn & Quarterly. \nLee Lai is an Australian cartoonist living in Tio’tia:ke (colonially Montreal). Her latest graphic novel Cannon is with Drawn & Quarterly\, Giramondo\, Sarbacane and other publishers. She lives with her two roommates and a cat called Pumpkin. \nFrançois Vigneault is an American-born cartoonist living in Québec. He is the creator of the sci-fi graphic novel TITAN (Oni Press\, 2020 / Éditions Pow Pow\, 2017)\, the illustrator of books including Le gâteau empoisonée (Éditions de la Pastèque\, 2025)\, Extraordinary Eyeglasses (Helvetiq\, 2024)\, and Orcs in Space (Oni Press 2021-22)\, and also works as a translator and designer. \n2026 Read Quebec Book Fair: See All Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/seeing-things-lee-lai-and-arizona-oneill-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel,Read Quebec Book Fair
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://qwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Comics-Event.png
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR