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SUMMARY:Pathways to Narrative-Building: Journalism\, storytelling\, and mobilizing media
DESCRIPTION:In a moment when information and misinformation are moving at a break-neck pace and trust in media institutions is dwindling\, how can we challenge dominant narratives and confront current power structures? What does it look like to harness journalism and storytelling for effective knowledge mobilization and social change? Join us for interactive skill-share that will center on practical approaches to sharing knowledge and understanding impact in an ever-shifting techno-cultural landscape. \nWe look forward to digging into narrative-building with you and our special guests: \n– Danièle-Jocelyne Otou-Nguini (New Room Group & Black Healing Centre)\,\n– Rachel Gilmore (Bubble Pop Media)\,\n– and Savannah Stewart (The Rover) \nThey will lead discussions on wielding communications for social transformation\, in an effort to better equip us to defy power through our stories.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/pathways-to-narrative-building-journalism-storytelling-and-mobilizing-media/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, McConnell Building\, 1400 blvd Maisonneuve West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel
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SUMMARY:Affair with China – The Dragon Through Gabriel Safdie’s Lens
DESCRIPTION:A Blue Metropolis Festival Event \nIn Affair with China\, Gabriel Safdie’s photography and narrative cover over four transformative decades in his extensive travels throughout the entire country from the 1980s to 2020s while working in trade and in the arts. As he wrote\, “China’s one-eyed dragon rose\, learned to fly\, spread its wings and soared. Will this country\, so driven to extremes\, learn to find balance and a sense of proportion between the forces of yin and yang\, resolving those always contrary tendencies?” Gabriel Safdie answers questions from writer Charlie Foran (Butterfly Lovers; Mordecai: The Life & Times; Just Once\, No More). \nBook signing after the event at the Festival’s official bookstore at Salle JAG. \nParticipants: Gabriel Safdie \nInterview: Charlie Foran \nLanguage(s): English \n  \nTickets: https://lepointdevente.com/billets/fmb260425006
URL:https://qwf.org/event/affair-with-china-the-dragon-through-gabriel-safdies-lens/
LOCATION:Hôtel 10 – Salle JAG\, 10 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 4C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Panel
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SUMMARY:A Crisis of Empathy? Shared Suffering in the Contemporary Moment
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 31\, 20263:00–5:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nThis event brings together two thought leaders who will explore how political polarization erodes our capacity for empathy. As public debates become more conflictual\, how do we remain present to one another’s suffering\, even when we fundamentally disagree? Rabbi Lisa Grushcow offers a spiritual perspective on empathy and suffering\, while anthropologist Samuel Veissière examines the social forces driving deepening division. Together\, they invite us to consider how we might listen\, connect\, and heal in fractured times.Organized by Marc Lafrance\, Special Advisor to the Provost on Campus Life\, Provost’s Office and Lisa White\, Executive Director\, Equity Office. \n\n\n\nHow can you participate? Join us in person by filling out the form or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube. \n\n\n\nHave questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nLisa GrushcowSenior Rabbi\, Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom\, Westmount \n\n\n\nSamuel VeissièreProfesseur associé\, Département de psychologie (section psychodynamique) Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)Clinicien Chercheur\, Recherche Action sur les Polarisations Sociales (RAPS)CLSC Parc Extension\, CIUSS Centre Ouest de MontrealAdjunct Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, McGill University  \n\n\n\nJennifer BourqueChaplain and Coordinator\, Multi-faith and Spirituality Centre\, Concordia University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nView Event  on Concordia.ca
URL:https://qwf.org/event/a-crisis-of-empathy-shared-suffering-in-the-contemporary-moment/
LOCATION:4TH SPACE\, McConnell Building\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 1M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Art and Life in Graphic Novels
DESCRIPTION:December 7\, 2025\, 3 – 4 pmMain Stage\, Salle des célébrations\n\n\n\nD. BoydJuli DelportePascal Girard  \n\n\n\nModerated by François Vigneault \n\n\n\nThree of Quebec’s most distinctive voices in contemporary comics come together to explore the intimate connections between art and autobiography. Juli Delporte (Portrait of a Body)\, D. Boyd (Denniveniquity)\, and Pascal Girard (Pastimes) draw from personal experience to craft stories that are tender\, funny\, and deeply human. Join them for a conversation about turning life into art\, the creative risks of vulnerability\, and the evolving landscape of autobiographical graphic novels. Moderated by François Vigneault. \n\n\n\nMontreal-based cartoonist D. Boyd hails from Saint John\, New Brunswick – the setting for Denniveniquity and her first graphic memoir\, Chicken Rising. Her work has appeared in the New Brunswick Chapbook Series (Frog Hollow Press)\, the Montreal Review of Books\, and in unique collaborations with some exciting Canadian writers. \n\n\n\nJuli Delporte is an author and multidisciplinary artist born in France in 1983. She now lives in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. She is the author of several graphic novels published by Drawn & Quarterly\, including This Woman’s Work and Portrait of a Body. She has also published children’s albums\, including the recent Grands oreilles (Éditions de la Pastèque)\, and a book of poems illustrated with etchings\, Décroissance sexuelle (L’Oie de Cravan). She occasionally writes literary essays\, produces illustrations for various magazines and publishing houses\, and collaborates on collective publications. Alongside all this\, Juli explores different printing techniques (serigraphy\, risography\, and etching)\, creates zines\, gives creative workshops\, and makes ceramic pieces. \n\n\n\nPascal Girard was born in Jonquière\, QC\, in 1981. He is a part-time cartoonist and part-time social worker. He is the award-winning author of several graphic novels\, including Rebecca and Lucie in the Case of the Missing Neighbor\, Nicolas\, Petty Theft\, and most recently the collection Pastimes. He lives in Montreal with his family. \n\n\n\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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2025 Read Quebec Book Fair
URL:https://qwf.org/event/art-and-life-in-graphic-novels/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Festival,Panel,Read Quebec Book Fair
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251207T140000
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SUMMARY:Speed Dating for Writers and Publishers!
DESCRIPTION:December 7\, 2025\, 2 – 3 pmArchives room\, basement levelCasa d’Italia\n\n\n\nWriters\, bring your pitch and get ready to present it to a range of local publishers. 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. \n\n\n\nHow to Participate\n\n\n\nThis event has limited capacity. Registration will be accepted on a first-come\, first-served basis at the book fair on the day of the event. Doors to the book fair open at 11 am\, so arrive early to ensure your spot. See details and tips for participating.  \n\n\n\nFeaturing:\n\n\n\n\nYashaswi Kesanakurthy\, Simon & Schuster Canada\n\n\n\nFiroze Manji\, Daraja Press\n\n\n\nLeila Marshy\, Baraka Books\n\n\n\nCurtis McRae\, Véhicule Press\n\n\n\nShannae Nitti\, Crackboom! Books\n\n\n\nDave Dufour\, Flame Arrow Publishing (new addition!)\n\n\n\nModerated by Lori Schubert\, Quebec Writers’ Federation\n\n\n\n\nYashaswi Kesanakurthy [yush-us-we kay-sah-nah-koor-thi] is the Children’s Editor at Simon & Schuster Canada. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s MA program in Children’s Literature and Toronto Metropolitan University’s publishing program. Her publishing career began as Publishing Assistant at Tundra Books\, PRHC. She then joined HarperCollins Canada as Associate Editor where she developed a vibrant list including The Garden of Lost Socks by Esi Edugyan and Amélie Dubois\, The Hockey Skates by Karl Subban and Maggie Zeng\, and Mortified by Kristy Jackson and Rhael McGregor. At Simon & Schuster Canada\, she remains focused on publishing marginalized\, Canadian voices that tell entertaining and transformative stories. Yash lives in Toronto with a magical\, if unruly\, library that just keeps growing. \n\n\n\nFiroze Manji\, PhD\, is a Kenyan / Canadian\, resident in Québec. He has spent more than 50 years in international development\, health\, human rights and political activism. He is the publisher of Daraja Press and is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies\, Carleton University\, Ottawa. He is the recipient of the 2021 Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. \n\n\n\nLeila Marshy is the author of The Philistine (LLP\, 2018) and My Thievery of the People (Baraka Books\, 2025)\, and is editor of the anthology Razing Palestine: Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada (Baraka Books\, 2025). Daughter of a Palestinian refugee\, Marshy lived in Cairo during the First Intifada and worked for the Palestinian Red Crescent and the Palestinian Mental Health Association. She has been a community and political organizer\, including founding a dialogue group with the Hasidic community in her local neighbourhood\, helping elect the first Hasidic woman to public office in the world. Marshy is editor at Baraka Books and lives in Montreal. \n\n\n\nCurtis John McRae is the fiction editor at Véhicule Press and the Co-Founder/Editor-in-Chief of yolk literary journal. He is the author of Quietly\, Loving Everyone (Vehicule Press\, 2025). His fiction has appeared in The New Quarterly\, Prairie Fire\, and others. He won the 2021/22 David McKeen Award\, was longlisted for the 2025 DISQUIET Literary Fiction Contest\, received an honourable mention in the 2024 Peter Hinchcliffe award\, and was a finalist in the 2019 Quebec Writers’ Federation contest for emerging young writers. Curtis teaches English literature at John Abbott College and formerly served as a board member for the Quebec Writers’ Federation. \n\n\n\nShannae Nitti is a marketing and sales professional with a background in communications\, business development\, and brand strategy. Drawn to the publishing industry for its blend of creativity and purpose\, she’s passionate about the business of books—from shaping ideas to understanding readers and trends. Shannae values the craft\, collaboration\, and evolution that make publishing such a dynamic and inspiring field. \n\n\n\nDave Dufour is the founder and publisher of Flame Arrow Publishing\, a bilingual speculative-fiction press based in British Columbia and Quebec. He leads a growing catalogue of hopepunk\, fantasy\, and science fiction in both English and French\, and is dedicated to championing bold\, imaginative voices across Canada. With a professional background as an educator and linguist\, Dave brings a deep understanding of language\, culture\, and storytelling to his editorial vision. He also oversees Brins d’éternité\, one of Québec’s longest-running speculative-fiction magazines. \n\n\n\nLori Schubert is the executive director of the Quebec Writers’ Federation\, where she has worked since 2003. From 1998 to 2017 she was also a member and general manager of VivaVoce\, a professional chamber choir. Prior to her work in arts management\, Lori was a singer and corporate communications trainer in the New York metropolitan area. She has taught written and oral communication at Columbia\, McGill and Concordia Universities. She was instrumental in the founding of Quebec’s English-language Arts Network (ELAN) and has served two terms on its board of directors. Through QWF\, Lori co-founded the National Juries and Awards Working Group in 2021. She has also served in an advisory capacity for YES Montreal\, the Blue Metropolis Foundation and the Atwater Writers’ Exhibition\, and currently chairs the Education and Skills Development Table for the Working Group on Arts and Culture.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2025 Read Quebec Book Fair
URL:https://qwf.org/event/speed-dating-for-writers-and-publishers/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Networking,Panel,Read Quebec Book Fair
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SUMMARY:Acquiring Editors at Work
DESCRIPTION:December 7\, 2025\, 1 – 2 pmMain Stage\, Salle des célébrations\n\n\n\nLeila Marshy\, Baraka BooksCurtis John McRae\, Véhicule PressYashaswi Kesanakurthy\, Simon & Schuster Canada \n\n\n\nModerated by Tawhida Tanya Evanson \n\n\n\nWho gets to choose which books will be published – and how do they do it? Editors from three publishers will discuss how they decide what to publish\, and how writers can improve their chances. Simon & Schuster children’s book editor Yashaswi Kesanakurthy\, Baraka Books’ fiction and nonfiction editor Leila Marshy\, and Curtis McRae\, fiction editor at Véhicule Press\, will give us the inside scoop on what acquisitions editors really do. \n\n\n\nYashaswi Kesanakurthy [yush-us-we kay-sah-nah-koor-thi] is the Children’s Editor at Simon & Schuster Canada. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s MA program in Children’s Literature and Toronto Metropolitan University’s publishing program. Her publishing career began as Publishing Assistant at Tundra Books\, PRHC. She then joined HarperCollins Canada as Associate Editor where she developed a vibrant list including The Garden of Lost Socks by Esi Edugyan and Amélie Dubois\, The Hockey Skates by Karl Subban and Maggie Zeng\, and Mortified by Kristy Jackson and Rhael McGregor. At Simon & Schuster Canada\, she remains focused on publishing marginalized\, Canadian voices that tell entertaining and transformative stories. Yash lives in Toronto with a magical\, if unruly\, library that just keeps growing. \n\n\n\nLeila Marshy is the author of The Philistine (LLP\, 2018) and My Thievery of the People (Baraka Books\, 2025)\, and is editor of the anthology Razing Palestine: Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada (Baraka Books\, 2025). Daughter of a Palestinian refugee\, Marshy lived in Cairo during the First Intifada and worked for the Palestinian Red Crescent and the Palestinian Mental Health Association. She has been a community and political organizer\, including founding a dialogue group with the Hasidic community in her local neighbourhood\, helping elect the first Hasidic woman to public office in the world. Marshy is Editor at Baraka Books and lives in Montreal. \n\n\n\nCurtis John McRae is the fiction editor at Véhicule Press and the Co-Founder/Editor-in-Chief of yolk literary journal. He is the author of Quietly\, Loving Everyone (Vehicule Press\, 2025). His fiction has appeared in The New Quarterly\, Prairie Fire\, and others. He won the 2021/22 David McKeen Award\, was longlisted for the 2025 DISQUIET Literary Fiction Contest\, received an honourable mention in the 2024 Peter Hinchcliffe award\, and was a finalist in the 2019 Quebec Writers’ Federation contest for emerging young writers. Curtis teaches English literature at John Abbott College and formerly served as a board member for the Quebec Writers’ Federation. \n\n\n\nTawhida Tanya Evanson is a poet\, novelist\, artist and Ashiq. Her work blends poetry\, orality\, music\, movement and film around themes of African diasporic identity\, Sufi spirituality and resistance to Western values. Born and based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal\, she has roots in Antigua\, West Indies. Evanson’s novels include the French Livre des ailes (Marchand de feuilles 2023)\, and the award-winning Book of Wings (Véhicule 2021); her two poetry collections are Nouveau Griot (Frontenac 2018) and Bothism (Ekstasis 2017). She has an extensive history of spoken word performance\, audio recordings and films including the multi-award-winning Afrofuturist concert film CYANO SUN SUITE (2024). Evanson’s work has travelled to festivals across Africa\, Asia\, Australia\, Europe\, and North America. She is past director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word Program; past president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation; and 2025 Poet Ambassador in Residence at the League of Canadian Poets. She moonlights as a whirling dervish. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2025 Read Quebec Book Fair
URL:https://qwf.org/event/acquiring-editors-at-work/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Festival,Panel,Read Quebec Book Fair
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SUMMARY:Archives Out Loud: Italian-Canadian Literature
DESCRIPTION:December 7\, 2025\, 11:30 – 12:30 pmMain Stage\, Salle des célébrations\n\n\n\nLicia CantonLianne MoyesCarmine Starnino \n\n\n\nModerated by Nancy Marrelli \n\n\n\nThere is a significant body of excellent Italian-Canadian literature available from a variety of sources in English\, French\, and Italian. The panel will discuss some established works as well as new voices emerging from the next generation. This session is part of the Archives Out Loud series organized by the Italian-Canadian Archives of Quebec. The panel will be followed by a reception in the office of the Italian-Canadian Community Archives of Quebec\, in the basement level of Casa d’Italia. \n\n\n\nLicia Canton has published short stories\, nonfiction and poetry in English\, French\, Italian and a Venetian dialect. She has been translator-in-residence at the University of Hull\, UK\, and Writer-in-Residence at Università della Calabria\, Italy. She is co-founder of Accenti Magazine and co-director of the Queer Italian-Canadian Artists Research Project (U of Toronto). She is the director of the documentary film Creative Spaces: Queer and Italian Canadian (2021). She mentors emerging writers through the Quebec Writers’ Federation Hire-a-Writer directory. For her work in culture\, she was awarded the Italy in the World Prize (2018). She holds a Ph.D. from Université de Montréal and an M.A. from McGill University. \n\n\n\nNancy Marrelli is Director of the Italian-Canadian Archives of Quebec at the Casa d’Italia\, and Archivist Emerita\, Concordia University. She is also co-publisher of Véhicule Press. Her family left Italy and settled in Montreal in 1909. \n\n\n\nProfessor of English Studies at the Université de Montréal\, Lianne Moyes specializes in Canadian and Anglo-Quebec literatures. She is interested in the porous and contested borders between the literatures that emerge in Montreal and has worked on writers such as Antonio D’Alfonso\, Fanie Demeule\, Mary di Michele\, Mavis Gallant\, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine\, A. M. Klein\, Robert Majzels\, Erín Moure\, and Gail Scott. She has an ongoing commitment to women’s writing and to fostering spaces for reading across languages\, and was co-editor at the feminist magazine Tessera from 1993 to 2003. Since the late 1990s\, she has been a member of the Association of Italian Canadian Writers. \n\n\n\nCarmine Starnino is the Editor in Chief of The Walrus. He is the author of eight books\, including Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997–2016.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2025 Read Quebec Book Fair
URL:https://qwf.org/event/archives-out-loud-italian-canadian-literature/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Festival,Panel,Read Quebec Book Fair
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T153000
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SUMMARY:Guernica Editions Showcase
DESCRIPTION:December 6\, 2025\, 3:30 – 5 pmRotunda\n\n\n\nAn event celebrating Guernica Editions’ longstanding presence in Quebec\, featuring readings by authors with new releases this year\, including fiction\, memoir\, and poetry. With the purchase of a book\, guests will be entered into a raffle to win a selection of Guernica titles. \n\n\n\n\nMichael Carin\, Edisson & Jeremiah\n\n\n\nAnn Cavlovic\, Count on Me\n\n\n\nJonathan Kaplansky and Francis Catalano\, The Origin of the Future\n\n\n\nAndreas Kessaris\, The Grand Tour of Park Ex\n\n\n\nBunmi Oyinsan\, A Ladder of Bones\n\n\n\nMeryem Yildiz\, Backbone\n\n\n\nContributors from The Nuances of Love\n\n\n\n\nMichael Carin trained as a political theorist at McGill University\, where he also studied under the godfather of Canadian literature\, Hugh MacLennan. He is the author of several novels\, including Five Hundred Keys\, The Kremlin Papers\, and the work of alternate history Churchill at Munich. His non-fiction response to the Holocaust\, The Future Jew\, won him wide recognition as a provocative secular humanist. Mr. Carin lives in Montreal. \n\n\n\nPoet\, novelist\, short story writer and essayist born in Montreal\, Francis Catalano won the Quebecor Prize of the Trois-Rivières International Poetry Festival for Qu’une lueur des lieux (2010) and the La Métropole Prize of Excellence for Climax (2022). As a translator of Italian poetry\, he won the John Glassco Prize in 2006 for Instructions pour la lecture d’un journal de Valerio Magrelli. \n\n\n\nAnn Cavlovic’s fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in Canadian literary magazines and news media\, such as Event\, The Fiddlehead\, Grain\, PRISM International\, The Globe & Mail\, and CBC. She lives in Western Quebec.  \n\n\n\nConnie Guzzo McParland\, president and co-director of Guernica Editions\, holds a BA in Italian Literature and a master’s degree in Creative Writing from Concordia University. She is the author of The Girls of Piazza D’amore (2013)\, The Women of Saturn (2017)\, Le Donne di Saturno (2019)\, An opera in 3 Acts/Un opéra en trois actes (2021)\, and The Twelfth Room\, a translation of La Dodicesima Stanza. \n\n\n\nJonathan Kaplansky is a literary translator of French in Montreal. He won a French Voices Award to translate Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s Things Seen and was shortlisted for the David Booth Award for Jonathan Bécotte’s Like a Hurricane. He has also translated works by Hélène Dorion\, Lise Gauvin\, Louis- Philippe Hébert\, Hélène Rioux and Lise Tremblay. \n\n\n\nAndreas Kessaris grew up in Montreal’s Park Extension district\, the son of Greek immigrants. He graduated from Dawson College and Concordia University\, earning a BA in Communications & English. His column\, Read On! with Andreas Kessaris\, was a popular feature in the West-End community paper The Local Herald. His writing has also appeared on Suite101.com\, in the literary journal The Write Place\, on the Montreal entertainment website Curtainsup.tv\, The Miramichi Reader\, and The Montreal Review of Books. His first book\, The Butcher of Park Ex & Other Semi-Truthful Tales\, was released in 2020 to great acclaim. \n\n\n\nBunmi Oyinsan is a Nigerian/Canadian writer. From novels to scripts for radio\, television\, and the theatre\, she has contributed to both the nonfiction and fiction canons of African literature. Oyinsan gained her MA focusing on orature and literature from Saint Mary’s University and a Ph.D. from York University. She is the writer\, producer\, and presenter for the Sankofa Pan African Series\, which has over 100K subscribers and over 5 million views. She is a winner of the Matatu Prize for her YA novel Fabulous Four and has been nominated for THEMA’s Best Film Script. Her novel Three Women was nominated for the Flora Nwapa Prize for Women’s Literature in 2006. Born in Lagos\, she lives in Bowmanville\, Ontario. \n\n\n\nMeryem Yildiz is a Turkish-Canadian poet from Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Her poems have appeared in journals across the country\, including Arc Poetry Magazine\, The Ex-Puritan\, PRISM International\, The Fiddlehead\, and yolk\, among others. In 2022\, she won The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry as well as the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s carte blanche Prize. She’s also a poetry editor at LBRNTH\, a queer literature and arts magazine\, which she co-edits with Misha Solomon. In her debut collection\, Backbone\, Meryem explores the complexities of identity across geographies\, and reveals how friendship and memory shape the search for home. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2025 Read Quebec Book Fair
URL:https://qwf.org/event/guernica-editions-showcase/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events,Festival,Panel,Read Quebec Book Fair,Reading
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SUMMARY:Valentine in December! with Heather O'Neill and Arizona O'Neill
DESCRIPTION:December 6\, 2025\, 2–3 pmMain Stage\, Salle des célébrations\n\n\n\nThe duo will take to the stage to discuss their collaboration Valentine in Montreal. The novel\, written by Heather with illustrations by Arizona\, is a sweet Montreal adventure in which our famous metro plays a starring role. The O’Neills will sign copies after their onstage appearance. \n\n\n\nHeather O’Neill is a novelist\, short-story writer and essayist. Her most recent novel is Valentine in Montreal. Her previous works include Capital of Dreams and When We Lost Our Heads\, a #1 national bestseller and finalist for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. The Lonely Hearts Hotel\, won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and CBC’s Canada Reads. Lullabies for Little Criminals\, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night\, and Daydreams of Angels were shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction\, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize two years in a row. O’Neill has also won CBC’s Canada Reads and the Danuta Gleed Award. Born and raised in Montreal\, she lives there today. \n\n\n\nArizona O’Neill is a Montreal-based author and illustrator. Her illustrations appear in Valentine in Montreal. She is the author of Est-ce qu’un artiste peut être heureux ?\, a collection of graphic interviews\, and illustrated Nelly Arcan’s L’enfant dans le miroir. Her comics have appeared in Hazlitt\, Exclaim!\, the Montreal Gazette and mRb. She has created animated videos for many outlets\, including CBC. She is a regular contributor to Radio-Canada’s Il restera toujours la culture\, and is one half of the bookstagram page @ONeillReads. She is currently working on a graphic memoir.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2025 Read Quebec Book Fair
URL:https://qwf.org/event/valentine-in-december-with-heather-oneill-and-arizona-oneill/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Festival,Panel,Read Quebec Book Fair
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SUMMARY:New Knowledge: Nonfiction Lightning Round
DESCRIPTION:December 6\, 2025 at 12 pm – 1 p.m.Main Stage\, Salle des célébrations\n\n\n\n\nNathalie Cooke\n\n\n\nMartha Langford\n\n\n\nValérie Lefebvre-Faucher\n\n\n\nStephen Monteiro\n\n\n\nFrancine Pelletier\n\n\n\nCatherine Richardson\n\n\n\nAlex R. Tipei\n\n\n\nThomas Waugh\n\n\n\nAndrei Zanescu\n\n\n\n\nModerated by Ryan Van Huijstee \n\n\n\nOften\, fiction gets the limelight\, poetry gets the prestige. But nonfiction books are published every day that help illuminate\, preserve and create the world around us. Join local authors as they share the passions that led them to investigate a single subject in depth and then write an entire book about it. \n\n\n\nNathalie Cooke is an English professor at McGill University and a specialist in literary food studies and material culture. Her research uncovers the hidden stories told by menus\, textiles\, and other everyday artefacts\, revealing how their forms\, codes\, and designs shape what we remember\, and how we read. \n\n\n\nCatherine Richardson Kineweskwêw is a Métis therapist\, family therapist\, researcher and academic working at Concordia University. Her maternal relatives come from Fort Chipewyan and have ties to Red River. She holds a research Chair in Indigenous Healing Knowledges and teaches in First Peoples Studies and Creative Arts Therapies. She is a co-founder of the Centre for Response-Based Practice where she and her colleagues advance dignity-centered approaches to violence. Cathy is also interested in the broader and multi-dimensional aspects of healing\, such as the person as whole being\, a spirit in a body with emotions\, intelligence\, physicality and in relation to all beings in the natural world.  \n\n\n\nShe has taught in various counselling and social work programs and is the former director of the First Peoples Studies program at Concordia University. She explores various approaches to well- being on her substack podcast\, where she speaks with healers\, activists and response-based therapists. She is a student of shamanic practice and the mother of three amazing adult children. \n\n\n\nMartha Langford\, FRSC\, is the author of A History of Photography in Canada. The first of three volumes\, Anticipation to Participation\, 1839 1918 has just appeared. Beautifully produced\, the book is both lively and comprehensive\, with over 400 illustrations. Langford is a distinguished professor emeriti of Concordia University in Montreal. She is the former research chair and director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. In prior lives\, she was the founding director of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography\, an affiliate of the National Gallery of Canada\, and before that\, Executive Producer of the Still Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada. She has organized photographic exhibitions for museums and festivals in Canada\, the UK\, and Europe. \n\n\n\nValérie Lefebvre-Faucher is editor-in-chief of Liberté. She has worked as an editor at both Remue-ménage and Écosociété\, with a focus on environmental\, anti-capitalist\, and feminist work. In addition to having collaborated with numerous collectives\, blogs\, and magazines\, she published Procès Verbal and Promenade sur Marx\, published in English under the title Jenny\, Eleanor\, and Laura\, et al.\, translated by Mélissa Bull. \n\n\n\nStephen Monteiro teaches and researches media and culture at Concordia University. He has written or edited several books\, including Needy Media\, The Fabric of Interface\, and The Screen Media Reader. He has contributed as an expert on contemporary technology to CBC Radio and the Toronto Star\, among other media outlets.  \n\n\n\nWell-known journalist\, documentary filmmaker\, teacher and broadcaster\, Francine Pelletier\, formerly of CBC’s the fifth estate\, is the author of three books: Second début: Cendres et renaissance du féminisme\, Atelier 10\, (2015)\, a short personal history of feminism in Quebec; : L’Art de se mouiller : Chroniques pour nourrir le débat\,  Écosociété (2022)\, a selection of her columns in Le Devoir from 2013-22; and Dream Interrupted : the Rise and Fall of Quebec Nationalism\, Sutherland House (2025). \n\n\n\nA transnational historian\, primarily focused on Southeast Europe and France\, Alex R. Tipei is professor of history and international studies at the Université de Montréal. MQUP published her book\, Unintended Nations: France’s Empire of Civilization\, Southeast Europe\, and the Post-Napoleonic World. Alex’s research has received funding from SSHRC\, the Fulbright Program\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has taught and researched at McGill and Princeton Universities as well as the Universities of Bucharest and Illinois. Alex is also a team leader on the European Research Council funded project Transnational Histories of Corruption in South-East-Central Europe based at New Europe College/Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest. \n\n\n\nRyan Van Huijstee is the director of Concordia University Press. He previously held a range of roles at University of Toronto Press and McGill-Queen’s University Press. \n\n\n\nThomas Waugh is a writer\, programmer\, and activist who taught film studies and sexuality at Concordia University from 1976 to 2017. He is the author of The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities\, Nations\, Cinema; and fourteen other books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2025 Read Quebec Book Fair
URL:https://qwf.org/event/new-knowledge-nonfiction-lightning-round/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Festival,Panel,Read Quebec Book Fair
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SUMMARY:Queering Literature in 2025
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 27\, 2025\, 6:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Village for a roundtable discussion with three local\, literary authors: H. Nigel Thomas\, Su J Sokol\, and Talhí Briones\, as well as multidisciplinary artist Nour Symon—all of whom have published works in 2025. In conversation with local writer Brooke Lee\, the panel will discuss their latest works\, queer time and space in the literary arts community\, and what a hopeful future can look like during socially turbulent times.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/queering-literature-in-2025/
LOCATION:L’Euguélionne Bookstore\, 1426 Rue Beaudry\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2L 3E5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T233000
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SUMMARY:NOIA Launch Party: Absurd Rituals
DESCRIPTION:Join NOIA’s first ever launch event in Canada\, celebrating the fourth issue of NOIA Magazine: Absurd Rituals.\nNOIA Launch: Absurd Rituals\nWe’re pleased to announce our first ever launch event in Canada\, celebrating the fourth issue of NOIA Magazine: Absurd Rituals. \nAbout this issue:\nThis issue investigates the tension between the internal logic and external perception of (absurd) rituals. A daughter\, raised within her father’s conspiratorial rituals\, experiences the tragic gap between belief and consequence. Computer overclockers engage in elaborate cooling ceremonies\, transforming functional necessity into obsessive craft. Presidential golf outings\, presented as leisure\, serve as carefully choreographed performances of power\, conducted across manicured landscapes with arcane codes of access. \nAbout this launch:\nIssues 2-4 will be available for purchase along with limited edition rings made by Ran.Den.Metal x NOIA. \nDJ sets brought to you by @mekashaaaa along with a custom cocktail menu by Jo Kolb. Hosted by Foster Gareau.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/noia-launch-party-absurd-rituals/
LOCATION:Le Système\, 7119 rue Saint-Hubert\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Panel,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T130000
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SUMMARY:Poetry\, Place and Politics: Readings and Moderated Discussion at FLUX Festival
DESCRIPTION:How do poets and their poetry intervene into discussions and activism related to the politics of place? How might poetry enrich our understanding of place\, politics and the ways in which they might intertwine? This free event will feature several poets whose poetry addresses these questions. It will involve a brief reading by each poet\, followed by a guided discussion. Come and experience a variety of ways in which poets and poetry can activate our minds and urge us to think and act in new ways when navigating our present most perilous times. \nParticipants include: Kaie Kellough\, Deanna Smith and Marilou Craft with moderation by Prof. Amber Rose Johnson \nFacebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1441377396924951
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetry-place-and-politics-readings-and-moderated-discussion-at-flux-festival/
LOCATION:Daphne Art Centre\, 5425 Casgrain Avenue\, Unit 103\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 1X6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T203000
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: Romantasy
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 24\, 2025\, 7:00–8:30 pm ETJoie de Livres Bookstore (5163 Blvd. Saint-Laurent\, Montreal)RSVP Below\n\n\n\nThe Quebec Writers’ Federation invites you to a panel discussion about the genre that’s taken the book world by storm.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for Writers Out Loud: Romantasy (“Romantic Fantasy”). Three talented Montreal-based authors—Day Leitao (Remnants of the Fallen Kingdom Series)\, L.E. Sterling (Starling’s Weave)\, and Kyrie Wang (The Enemy’s Keeper Series)—sit down to discuss their writing\, how they got started in the world of romantasy\, and why it’s such an exciting genre to be working in today. Discover the fantastical worlds\, the captivating romances\, and the manifold subgenres that make romantasy the world’s latest breakout book genre.  \n\n\n\nA Q&A with the audience will follow the panel discussion. Books by the authors will be available for purchase thanks to Joie de livres Bookstore. Light refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\nAbout the Panellists\n\n\n\n\nDay Leitao loves to write books with romance\, magic\, and banter and has participated in some of the most important romantasy events in the world: Apollycon in Washington DC and Romantasy Con in Orlando and Los Angeles. Her most recent series\, Remnants of the Fallen Kingdom\, is an enemies-to-lovers fae romantasy. She’s originally from Brazil and lives in Montreal with her son. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInspired by a childhood roaming across Canada in a van\, L.E. Sterling is the author of multiple novels spanning romance\, fantasy\, science fiction\, dystopian fiction\, and YA. Sterling has appeared at Book Con (NYC)\, the LA Times Festival of Books\, Ad Astra (Toronto)\, and Blue Metropolis (Montreal). Her novel True Born received international recognition\, winning the Athena Award for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction in 2017. She lives in the French-speaking suburbs of Montreal\, Quebec\, where she enjoys the romantic\, lost-in-translation life of an anglo ex-pat. le-sterling.com(Photo by Maxime Pruneau) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKyrie Wang is a medical mystery detective (fancy words for “pathologist\, MD”) by day and a dreamweaver of historical fantasy by night. Pencil on paper makes her cry and laugh\, and every book she writes is like living another life. She loves writing stories where people discover their true selves\, goodness wins\, and the forgotten and voiceless become heroes. When she isn’t peering through a microscope or building hamster toys with her daughter\, Kyrie is at her keyboard\, chasing the next adventure. \n\n\n\n\nCOST: Free | Donations welcome at the door
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-romantasy/
LOCATION:Joie de livres\, 5163 St Laurent Blvd\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 1R9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel,QWF Events,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:Chat with Larissa Lai and Her Translators
DESCRIPTION:Pour souligner la parution française de son roman Les soeurs de la Muée chez Le Quartanier (The Tiger Flu\, Arsenal Press)\, Joie de livres est heureuse d’accueillir l’autrice Larissa Lai et ses deux traductrices\, Sylvie Bérard et Suzanne Grenier\, pour une causerie sur son oeuvre\, décrite comme « un thriller biopunk doublé d’un roman initiatique lesbien »\, lauréate d’un Lambda Literary Awards (catégorie fiction lesbienne) en 2018 ! \n\n\n\nTo highlight the French release of her novel Les soeurs de la Muée chez Le Quartanier (The Tiger Flu\, Arsenal Press)\, Joie de livres is happy to welcome author Larissa Lai and her two translators\, Sylvie Bérard and Suzanne Grenier\, for a discussion on her work\, described as “a biopunk thriller coupled with a coming-of-age lesbian story. Winner of a Lambda Literary Award (Lesbian Fiction Category) in 2018! \n\n\n\nDate & Time: Wednesday\, July 23\, 2025\, 6:30 pm ET
URL:https://qwf.org/event/chat-with-larissa-lai-and-her-translators/
LOCATION:Joie de livres\, 5163 St Laurent Blvd\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 1R9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Panel
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: A Night of Trans Joy
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 6\, 2025\, 7:00-8:30 pm ETPulp Books & Cafe (3952 Wellington Ave\, Verdun)RSVP on Facebook\n\n\n\nThe Quebec Writers’ Federation invites you to Writers Out Loud: A Night of Trans Joy—an evening of literary conversation and community celebration.  \n\n\n\nJoin us as we hear from four exciting and talented Quebec writers. Author and moderator Chris Bergeron will sit down with writers Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay\, Blxck Cxsper\, and Lenore Claire Herrem to discuss their work\, their experiences of trans joy\, and how those experiences colour their writing. A Q&A with the audience will follow the panel discussion.  \n\n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto by Geneviève Charbonneau\n\n\n\nChris Bergeron is diverse and fluid: after beginning a career in journalism and eventually winding up at the helm of the weekly cultural magazine Voir\, she now dedicates her artistic vitality to Cossette\, a leading global marketing agency. She offers speaking engagements on leadership\, diversity\, inclusion\, and trans rights. Chris lives in Montreal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto by Julie Langenegger\n\n\n\nGabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay lives in Montreal (Tiohtià:ke) and is a writer\, poet\, actress\, and advocate for trans rights. She published a poetry collection\, Les secrets de l’origami and has written for several magazines and publications\, including Lettres Québécoises\, Estuaire\, XYZ\, Moebius and Le Devoir as a columnist. Her children’s book La voix de la nature was nominated for the Prix du Livre Jeunesse des Bibliothèques de Montréal. Her first novel\, La fille d’elle-même\, won the Prix des Libraires du Québec 2022 and is distributed in Europe with JC Lattès and in English as Dandelion Daughter with Véhicule Press. The translation was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award ’24. This year\, the book will be translated into Spanish. She is currently working on the sequel to the novel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlxck Cxsper is a multidisciplinary artist\, storyteller\, and cultural disruptor based in Montréal. Known for their genre-bending music that blends hip-hop\, R&B\, and Afro-Caribbean influences\, Cxsper uses sound as a tool for emotional transformation and political resistance. They are the founder of Trans Trenderz\, a record label dedicated to uplifting transgender musicians and building equity in the music industry. Blxck Cxsper is also a writer\, actor\, and director and is currently working on a novel that expands the fictional universe of Blxck Cxsper—a former superhero turned vigilante fighting against institutional corruption to protect the marginalized.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLenore Claire Herrem is a transdisciplinary artist from Saskatoon and has been working in Tio’Tia:Ke (Montréal) since 2013. Formally trained in theatre performance\, she also works in studio arts\, animation\, digital art\, video art\, and performance art. She works under the character name Sandy Bridges for cabaret and web series\, and Precious Puppies is the name of her humble animation & merchandising empire. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-a-night-of-trans-joy/
LOCATION:Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe\, 3952 Wellington Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4G1V3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:The Gabriel Safdie Event: Jerusalem of the Mind—The Groundwork for the Day After
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, April 27th\, 2025\, 2:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nPart of the 2025 Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival \n\n\n\nHow do we continue living through endless conflict in the Middle East? How do we lay the groundwork for the day after? What role do we have as writers\, poets\, storytellers and journalists in the arduous and grassroots task of dialogue toward peace building? We must first explore ways toward building empathy among enemies. \n\n\n\nA discussion on the current Middle East among a scholar\, a poet\, a writer\, and a filmmaker. \n\n\n\nParticipants: Danae Elon\, Yacov Rabkin\, Moustafa Bayoumi\, Ehab Lotayef \n\n\n\nModerator: Kareem Shaheen
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-gabriel-safdie-event-jerusalem-of-the-mind-the-groundwork-for-the-day-after/
LOCATION:Hotel 10\, 10 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 4C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Panel
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: To Care for the Earth—In Conversation with Alice Irene Whittaker
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 26\, 2025\, 2:30 pm ETHôtel 10 – Salle Jardin\n\n\n\nNovelist Ian Thomas Shaw interviews author Alice Irene Whittaker to explore the profound act of finding home in nature at a time of heartbreaking change. In her book\, Homing: A Quest for Care for Myself and the Earth\, Alice Irene weaves the wisdom of leading environmentalists with her journey of embracing nature’s cycles in a cabin in the woods\, where she strives to shed perfectionism and cultivate a life rooted in regeneration and care. \n\n\n\nPart of QWF’s Writers Out Loud series. Presented in partnership with the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-to-care-for-the-earth-in-conversation-with-alice-irene-whittaker/
LOCATION:Hotel 10\, 10 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 4C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Panel,Reading,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:WestmountLittéraire | WestmountLit
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 3\, 2025\, 7:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nMeet three acclaimed authors for a literary soirée of readings and discussion. \n\n\n\nFeaturing authors Megan Durnford\, H Nigel Thomas\, and Sivan Slapak.  \n\n\n\nRegister for free on Eventbrite to reserve your spot.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/westmountlit/
LOCATION:Westmount Public Library\, 4626 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1G1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel
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SUMMARY:“The Lives and Liveliness of Books”: Perspectives on Scholarly Publishing with Faith Wilson Stein 
DESCRIPTION:Friday March 21st 2025\, 11:30am-1:00pm McGill University\, 845 Sherbrooke Street West\, Ferrier 408\n\n\n\nHow do books come to life through publication? Please join Poetry Matters and Connected Academics for a professional development workshop with Faith Wilson Stein\, Senior Editor and Acquisitions Manager at Northwester University Press. What should a prospective author expect when working with an acquisitions editor? What kinds of career paths in academic publishing are possible for graduate students in the arts and humanities? This workshop is intended for graduate students\, postdoctoral fellows\, and early career researches who are interested in the worlds of publishing in and beyond academia.    \n\n\n\nFaith Wilson Stein began her career in publishing with positions at Slavic Review and Stanford University Press. As Senior Editor and Acquisitions Managing at Northwestern University Press\, she oversees projects from across the humanities\, including work in literary studies\, theater and performance studies\, and critical ethnic studies\, as well as select translations and crossover titles. Faith Wilson Stein holds a PhD in Comparative Literature with a focus in English\, Russian\, and French from the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-lives-and-liveliness-of-books-perspectives-on-scholarly-publishing-with-faith-wilson-stein/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Panel
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SUMMARY:ground\, field\, figure: poets and critics in relation 
DESCRIPTION:Thursday March 20th 2025\, 5pm-7pmRocket Science Room\, 170 Rue Jean-Talon O #204\n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to draw the work of living poets into the realm of critical commentary and conversation\, and what does it mean to be the poet whose work is thus drawn?  \n\n\n\nPlease join Poetry Matters for a conversation with Liz Howard (Concordia) and Sarah Dowling (University of Toronto) on being poets and critics in relation. Moderated by Carmen Faye Mathes (McGill)\, this event is at once a celebration of Dowling’s new book\, Here is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form and an opportunity to reflect on the grounds of poetic making with an award-winning poet. \n\n\n\nLiz Howard is an award-winning poet\, editor\, and teacher\, whose work explores Anishinaabe ways of knowing\, cosmology\, ecology\, and the liberatory potentials of language as art. Born and raised on Treaty 9 territory in Northern Ontario (Chapleau)\, she is of mixed settler and Anishinaabe heritage. She is the author of Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent\, which won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize\, and Letters in a Bruised Cosmos\, which was shortlisted for the Griffin in 2022. Howard’s work has been performed and published internationally as well as in translation. She is an assistant professor in English and Creative Writing at Concordia University. \n\n\n\nSarah Dowling is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature\, Women\, Gender\, and Sexual Studies at the University of Toronto whose research and teaching focus on language politics\, settler colonialism\, and contemporary writing. With a special interest in poems written between and across languages\, Dowling is the author of Translingual Poetics: Writing Personhood under Settler Colonialism (2018) as well as several books of poetry. Dowling’s new book\, Here is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form (2024)\, works across genres to explore figures of recumbency in contemporary writing.  
URL:https://qwf.org/event/ground-field-figure-poets-and-critics-in-relation/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Panel
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SUMMARY:Challenges Facing Writers of Middle Eastern Origin
DESCRIPTION:—The Groundwork for the Day After \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, April 27th\, 2025\, 2:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nPart of the 2025 Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival \n\n\n\nWriters of Middle Eastern origin living and working in the West face many challenges. One is supporting freedom struggles they believe in then being accused of supporting rogue factions or terrorism.  Another can be speaking their mind on local community issues that the mainstream audience does not connect with\, or\, staying silent to preserve their acceptance with readers and their relationship with publishing houses. Another struggle can be when publishers encourage them to portray exotic subjects and characters in unreal or artificial ways. Another struggle for some is the urge to write in their mother tongue\, where market is limited\, or in the languages of the land\, which may not be the language they think in.  \n\n\n\nA discussion between three writers on their works\, their origins and the various degrees of connection between the two. \n\n\n\nParticipants: Yara El-Ghadban\, Dimitri Nasrallah\, Rachad Antonius \n\n\n\nModerator: Ehab Lotayef
URL:https://qwf.org/event/challenges-facing-writers-of-middle-eastern-origin/
LOCATION:Hotel 10\, 10 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 4C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250121T083000
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Shakespeare\, Remaking World Systems
DESCRIPTION:January 21\, 2025\, 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ETArmstrong Building 365 & 370\, McGill University\, 3420 rue McTavishFree event with registration. Register here.\n\n\n\nIf Shakespeare could advise contemporary leaders on how to navigate today’s challenges\, what would he say? On January 21\, 2025\, McGill Delve explores this question in a special event organized for the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University\, the English Department of McGill University\, and the Stratford Festival. \n\n\n\nMcGill Delve is honoured to welcome leaders from the cultural\, financial\, social\, and economic spheres to sketch a roadmap towards sustainability and wellbeing\, using Shakespeare’s life and work as our guide. Together we will examine the qualities of money-making (wealth\, status\, power) and meaning-making (the search for purpose\, identity\, and significance) to determine how they can converge and co-exist to create a better world for everyone. \n\n\n\n– \n\n\n\nPresenters\n\n\n\nAntoni Cimolino KeynoteArtistic Director\, Stratford FestivalMember of the Order of Canada \n\n\n\nAntoni Cimolino is the Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival\, a post he was named to in 2012\, having served as General Director\, Executive Director and General Manager\, in addition to other roles. He began at the Stratford Festival in 1988\, as an actor\, taking on his first directing projects in the mid-1990s. In 2013\, his first season as Artistic Director\, Cimolino introduced The Meighen Forum\, a season-long series of more than 150 events illuminating the themes of the playbill and illustrating their relevance in today’s world. That same season he directed The Merchant of Venice\, with Tom McCamus and Scott Wentworth\, and Mary Stuart\, with Seana McKenna and Lucy Peacock\, a production that was extended an unprecedented four times. In 2014\, Cimolino and Executive Director Anita Gaffney launched Stratford Festival On Film\, an ambitious project to capture all of Shakespeare’s plays. The productions from this ongoing initiative\, along with films of some non-Shakespeare productions and original digital content are part of a massive catalogue of arts programming available on the Festival’s subscription streaming platform\, Stratfest@Home. In 2018\, Cimolino and Gaffney launched a $100-million campaign to build a new Tom Patterson Theatre. The campaign exceeded its goal and the new theatre opened in May 2022\, winning a number of architectural awards\, including the Governor General’s Medal in Architecture\, the global MasterPrize Award\, the UK Civic Trust Award and the Design Excellence Award from the Ontario Association of Architects\, as well as the OAA’s People’s Choice Award. Cimolino\, now in his 37th season at the Festival\, is the director of the 2024 production of London Assurance at the Festival Theatre. \n\n\n\nShawn BrownSenior Director of Engineering\, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise \n\n\n\nDr. Brown is Senior Director of Engineering at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise where he leads a large team of engineers building high-performance computing cloud services. He was formerly the Director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and Vice Chancellor of Research Computing at the University of Pittsburgh. He has over 25 years of experience in developing software to support the use of high-performance computing for research in areas such as chemistry\, bioinformatics\, and public health. His research interests are: (1)How agent-based modeling and other computational techniques can be used to provide decision support in public health and chronic disease; (2) Building of highly convergent collaborative neuroinformatics platforms for open data sharing and computation; (3) Synthetic Ecosystems for representing cohort and cross-sectional data for modeling and open data sharing. \n\n\n\nNick DragerAdjunct Professor\, McGill University and University of Ottawa \n\n\n\nNick Drager\, former Director of the Department of Ethics\, Equity\, Trade and Human Rights and Senior Adviser in the Strategy Unit\, Office of the Director-General at the World Health Organization and former CEO of the TuBurculosis Vaccine Initiative; is Adjunct Professor at McGill University and the University of Ottawa ; Honorary Professor\, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; His work focuses on current and emerging public health issues related to global health with a focus on global health diplomacy/governance\, foreign policy and international trade and health. The policy related\, research and training activities of his work contribute to enabling policy makers and public health practitioners to analyse and act on the broader determinants of health development\, to better manage and shape the global and national policy environment for health and to place public health interests higher on the global development agenda to improve health outcomes. He has an M.D. from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Hautes Etudes Internationales\, University of Geneva \n\n\n\nLaurette Dubé ModeratorEmerita Professor and Distinguished McGill Chair of Consumer and Lifestyle Psychology and MarketingFounding Chair and Scientific Director\, McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) \n\n\n\nLaurette Dubé is an Emerita Professor and James McGill Chair of Consumer and Lifestyle Psychology and Marketing at the Desautels Faculty of Management. She is Founding Chair and Scientific Director of the McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE). Originally trained as a nutritionist\, with graduate degrees in finances (MBA)\, marketing (MPS)\, and behavioural decision making/consumer psychology (PhD)\, Dr. Dubé’s lifetime research interest bears on the study of affects\, behavioural economics\, neurobehavioural\, and socio-economic processes underlying consumption\, lifestyle\, and health behaviour. Her translational research examines how such knowledge can inspire more effective behavioural change and ecosystem transformation as scale to address complex challenges and possibilities facing modern society. Through MCCHE\, Dr. Dubé has pioneered convergence and systems approaches to research and innovation in agri-food\, health and economic domains\, placing the whole person as the center of the whole society. She is principal investigator of the 3-Agency funded pan-Canadian SMART healthy cities implementation sciences training platform. She is also the academic lead of the ISED-funded FCI-Canada platform that connect enterprises from agri-food sector across Canada to improve their performance and resilience in domestic and international markets. She led Canada International Collaboration into EU-Horizon funded FSAFETY4AFRICA\, with both programs anchored into the convergence-by-design approach she pioneered with a world network of like-minded scientists and action leaders. Dr. Dubé is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2006. She received the 2011 YMCA women of distinction award for the social and environmental science in 2011 and the 2013 The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. \n\n\n\nScott HendersonMedia and Technology InvestorBoard Member\, Tangerine (Audit Committee) and SAGE Publishing (Finance Committee) \n\n\n\nScott Henderson has over 25 years of experience operating and investing in media and technology businesses. Over the course of his career\,k he has been senior executive / board member with financial\, strategic and operating experience. He is a digital native with first-hand experience leading the transition from print to digital (Financial Times). He is the cofounder and CEO of successful technology start-up in business aviation sector (Traxxall). Particular interest in datadriven business models. Extensive Merger &Acquisition experience across publishing\, digital media\, education\, financial technology and aviation. \n\n\n\nAnn-Marie MacDonaldNovelist\, Playwright\, ActorRichler Artist in Residence\, McGill University\, Department of EnglishOfficer of the Order of Canada \n\n\n\nAnn-Marie MacDonald is a novelist\, playwright\, actor\, and television host. Her work has been honoured with numerous awards\, including the Chalmers\, the Governor General’s\, Gemini\, Dora Mavor Moore\, John Drainie\, the Gascon-Thomas\, the Canadian Authors Association\, the Canadian Booksellers Association\, and the Commonwealth Prize. Her writing for the stage includes the plays\, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning\, Juliet)\, Belle Moral: A Natural History\, and Hamlet-911; the libretto for the chamber opera\, Nigredo Hotel\, and book and lyrics for Anything That Moves; her novels are Fall On Your Knees\, The Way the Crow Flies\, Adult Onset\, and Fayne. Ann-Marie graduated from the Acting Program of The National Theatre School of Canada in 1980. In 2019 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She was the 2024 Mordecai Richler writer-in-residence at McGill University. \n\n\n\nRaghu MachirajuProfessor of Biomedical Informatics\, Computer Science and Engineering and Pathology at the Ohio State University. \n\n\n\nRaghu Machiraju is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics\, Computer Science and Engineering\, Pathology at The Ohio State University. He is a Co-Principal Investigator of the ICICLE\, a newly funded NSF Institute to Democratize AI ( icicle.ai). Additionally\, he serves as an Associate Chair for Growth in the Department Computer Science and Engineering and as a Principal Data Scientist at the Translational Data Analytics Institute. Raghu’s research includes applying data science and AI models to problems from the clinic and the biology laboratory. \n\n\n\nHon. Julie Miville-DechêneSenator\, Senate of Canada \n\n\n\nAndré PratteExpert Panelist\, Canadian Centre for the Purpose of the CorporationFormer Senator\, Senate of Canada \n\n\n\nThe Honorable André Pratte is an Expert Panelist at the Canadian Centre for the Purpose of the Corporation (CCPC. André assumes the role after a successful career as a journalist spanning nearly 40 years.  Most of this time\, he worked for La Presse\, Canada’s foremost French language newspaper. From 2001 to 2015\, he was the paper’s Chief Editorial Writer and was part of the company’s management team. In 2016\, André was appointed to the Senate as an independent Senator. Disappointed by the partisanship that still dominated the Senate\, he resigned from this position in 2019. In 2022\, André received an MBA from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts.  Earlier in his career\, he had studied economics at McGill University and received a B.A. in political science from the Université de Montréal. Besides his journalism career\, André wrote several books on history\, the media and politics\, including a biography of Wilfrid Laurier. He has spent years reflecting on issues such as crisis management\, the media’s role in society\, the social license to operate\, businesses’ purpose\, economic development\, the exploitation of Canada’s immense natural resources\, and climate change. André also sits on the boards of The Lighthouse – Children and Families and of the Paul Gérin-Lajoie Foundation. \n\n\n\nFrédéric SamamaHead of Strategic Development\, Sustainable1\, S&P Global \n\n\n\nMr. Samama began his career at JP Morgan in Paris. He later managed Corporate Equity Derivatives at Crédit Agricole Corporate Investment Banking in both Paris and New York. During his time there\, he developed and implemented the first international leveraged employee share purchase program\, a model that is now widely adopted by French companies. He subsequently joined Amundi\, a leading European asset manager\, where he reorganized and expanded the institutional client coverage. At Amundi\, he played a pivotal role in establishing the company’s green finance leadership by launching the first mainstream equity low-carbon indexes. He also initiated the largest green bond fund of its time\, aimed at financing green infrastructure projects in Emerging Markets. Mr. Samama co-launched the first coalition of institutional investors committed to decarbonizing their portfolios. This initiative was selected to represent the finance industry at the COP21 Action Day. In 2009\, Mr. Samama founded the Sovereign Wealth Fund Research Initiative\, an academic center dedicated to studying sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and sustainability. He co-edited a book on long-term investing alongside Nobel Prize Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Professor Patrick Bolton\, and has authored Archéologie de l’Inaction as well as numerous papers on green finance\, such as “The Green Swan: Central Banking and Financial Stability in the Age of Climate Change” and “Hedging Climate Risk.” He is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York and Sciences Po in Paris. \n\n\n\nPaul Yachnin ModeratorTomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies\, Department of English at McGill University \n\n\n\nPaul Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at McGill University. He has served as President of the Shakespeare Association of America (2009-2010). From 2005-2010\, he directed the Making Publics (MaPs) project. From 2013-2018\, he directed the Early Modern Conversions project. Among his publications are the books\, Stage-Wrights and The Culture of Playgoing in Early Modern England (with Anthony Dawson)\, editions of Richard II and The Tempest; and seven edited books\, including Making Publics in Early Modern Europe\, Forms of Association\, and Conversion Machines in Early Modern Europe: Apparatus\, Artifice\, Body. His book-in-progress\, “Making Publics in Shakespeare’s Playhouse\,” is under contract with Edinburgh University Press. His ideas and the ideas of his MaPs colleagues about the social life of art were featured on the CBC Radio IDEAS series\, “The Origins of the Modern Public.” He publishes non-academic essays about Shakespeare and modern life\, including titles such as “Alzheimer’s Disease: What would Shakespeare Do?” and “Tragedy as a Way of Life.” An area of strong interest is higher education practice and policy\, with publications in Policy Options\, University Affairs\, and Humanities\, and projects\, including the TRaCE Transborder Project\, involving 12 universities across five continents.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/reimagining-shakespeare-remaking-world-systems/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Panel
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SUMMARY:How I Got Published: Fiction Edition
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, December 8\, 20241:00 pm–2:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nLooking for tips on getting your own writing into print? Writer/translator Mélissa Bull\, editor of the QC Fiction imprint at Baraka Books\, will moderate as panelists Rebecca Morris (Other Maps)\, Sofia Ajram (Coup de Grâce)\, and Lili Zeng (Dear Haider) recount their journeys to publication. There will be plenty of time for questions from the floor. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead Quebec Book Fair: All Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/how-i-got-published-fiction-edition/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel,Read Quebec Book Fair
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SUMMARY:Archives Out Loud: A Panel Discussion on Italian-Canadian Writing in English in Quebec
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, December 8\, 202412 pm–1 pm ET\n\n\n\nModerated by Nancy Marrelli\, archivist of the Italian-Canadian Community Archives of Quebec\, which are housed at the Casa d’Italia\, an exchange between: Domenic Cusmano\, publisher of Accenti: The Magazine with an Italian Accent; novelist and literary impresario Christopher DiRaddo\, and playwright Michaela Di Cesare. Reception in the Archives office in the basement to follow. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead Quebec Book Fair: All Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/archives-out-loud-a-panel-discussion-on-italian-canadian-writing-in-english-in-quebec/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel,Read Quebec Book Fair
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SUMMARY:Black Rose Books Radical Book Sale
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 5\, 2024\, 4:00-8:00 pm ETCo-op Bar Milton-Parc3714 avenue du Parc\, Montreal\n\n\n\nJoin us for discounted prices and panel discussions at the beautiful Co-op Bar Milton-Parc as we bring you boundary-pushing books that dig deep and stand out. This is your chance to gift something meaningful (or treat yourself) while supporting independent voices and a small independent nonprofit publisher. \n\n\n\nCome for radical ideas\, critical insights\, and stories that you won’t find on any bestseller shelf. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook
URL:https://qwf.org/event/black-rose-books-radical-book-sale/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Panel
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SUMMARY:Writers Read presents: BRICK Literary Magazine
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, December\, 20247:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nBrick\, A Literary Journal celebrates the launch of its winter issue with a special event featuring magazine editors and contributors at Concordia’s Writers Read series on Wednesday\, December 4. \n\n\n\nHosted by Montreal-based\, award-winning writer and Brick editor\, Madeleine Thien\, alongside poet and Brick publisher Laurie D. Graham. There will be readings from winter-issue contributors: internationally renowned novelist and critic Lucy Ives and Governor General’s Literary Award-winning author Kyo Maclear\, followed by a discussion including writer and Concordia professor Sina Queyras. \n\n\n\nAttendees will learn about Brick’s newest issue\, which features a formidable collection of work by Amitava Kumar\, Deborah Levy\, Robert Bringhurst\, Joanna Biggs\, Victoria Chang\, and others; and interviews with Claire Messud\, Natalie Diaz\, and Claire Keegan. Attendees will also have an opportunity to get deals on subscriptions and Brick merch. \n\n\n\nLocation: EV 1.605 – York Amphitheatre\, Concordia University\, Pavillion EV Building\, 1515 rue Sainte-Catherine\, Montreal \n\n\n\nAbout BRICK\n\n\n\nBrick is an international literary journal published twice a year out of Toronto\, featuring literary non-fiction—as well as the odd story or poem—from the world’s best-loved writers alongside fresh up-and-coming voices. Brick was founded in London\, Ontario\, in 1977 by Stan Dragland and Jean McKay\, and from 1985 until 2013\, Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding led the magazine and helped to establish its international reputation\, leaving a legacy of intellectual curiosity and passion for the written word. “Each issue is as purposely crafted as a good novel\,” writes John Irving. The current editors of Brick are Dionne Brand\, David Chariandy\, Laurie D. Graham\, Michael Helm\, Liz Johnston\, and Madeleine Thien.Event details and registration here. \n\n\n\nEvent contact: Rachael Riley\, writersreadconcordia@gmail.comMedia contact: Laurie D. Graham\, Publisher\, laurie@brickmag.com
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-read-presents-brick-literary-magazine/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Panel,Reading
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SUMMARY:Of Crows and Aunties: A Conversation with Jessica Johns
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 29\, 20246:00-8:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nWith Catherine Leroux and Éric Fontaine \n\n\n\nAs part of the Salon dans la ville\, Catherine Leroux meets Jessica Johns\, author of the acclaimed Bad Cree\, with her translator Éric Fontaine\, to discuss translation\, crows\, dreams\, evil entities and the extraordinary power of aunties. This hour-long conversation will be conducted in English and French and will be followed by a signing session with the author. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP on FACEbook
URL:https://qwf.org/event/of-crows-and-aunties-a-conversation-with-jessica-johns/
LOCATION:L’Euguélionne Bookstore\, 1426 Rue Beaudry\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2L 3E5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Panel,Reading
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SUMMARY:Poetics and Magic: Modernist Verse and  Artificial Intelligence with Dr. Orla Polten
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 22\, 20244:00-5:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nOrla Polten (they/she) is a research affiliate at McGill University working on the relationship between magic and poetics. They earned their Ph.D. in English from the University of Cambridge\, specialising in anglophone reception of Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. Polten’s first book\, English Verse in Classical Metres\, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Their current research asks what is at stake in the claim—prevalent in modernist poetic discourse—that poetry is a kind of magic. 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetics-and-magic-modernist-verse-and-artificial-intelligence-with-dr-orla-polten/
LOCATION:Birks Building\, 3520 rue University\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Panel
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SUMMARY:Why We Write
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 20\, 2024\, 5:30-7:00 pm ETLe Petit Dep – Le Loft (290 Rue de la Montagne\, 3rd Floor\, Montreal)\n\n\n\nJoin Writers Collective of Canada as we explore the social impact of making art. Why We Write brings together established and emerging writers in a celebration of writing and storytelling to transform lives. \n\n\n\nThis event will feature a panel discussion and audience engagement through a Q&A period and interactive writing workshop experience. \n\n\n\nPanelists include Susan Doherty\, Josh Freed\, Kook Fuqin Hu\, and Ann Lambert. \n\n\n\nQWF is proud to partner with Writers Collective of Canada to organize this event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP on FAcebook
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-why-we-write/
LOCATION:Le Petit Dep – Le Loft\, 290 rue de la Montagne\, 3rd Floor\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel,Reading,Series
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