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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
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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
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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
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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
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