21 Jul

Queer & Italian in Montreal 

July 21 event to celebrate the contributions of  LGBTQ Italian-Canadians on the city’s cultural More info Read more

19 Aug

Poetry Evening with Madhur Anand

In our endeavour to bring quality poetic activities to town, Kabir Centre Poetry Club More info Read more

26 Sep

5 Poets: Omar Musa, Hollie McNish, Rachel McCrum, Michael Pedersen, Dominic Hoey

Five poets, covering Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. One night only More info Read more

29 Sep

Atwater Poetry Project Online: Alexei Perry Cox & Hoa Nguyen

The Atwater Poetry Project returns for our Fall season with poets ALEXEI PERRY COX, More info Read more

9 Oct

A Fate Worse Than Death

A Fate Worse Than Death is a multimodal poetry exploration of disabled life. Often More info Read more

20 Oct

Reading by Neil Smith at Dawson College

Montreal writer Neil Smith will read from his darkly comic new novel Jones on More info Read more

4 Nov

Eight Voices: Finalists for the QWF Spoken Word Prize

Part of the 2022 Holiday Book FairFree, no registration requiredIn person and live-streamed (see More info Read more

13 Nov

LAUNCH & CONCERT

Book launch of AN OPERA IN 3 ACTS STARRING GINO QUILICO by Connie Guzzo More info Read more

7 Dec 10 Dec

The Pipeline Play Reading Series

Infinithéâtre’s annual Pipeline play reading series is back! Join us from December 7th-10th at More info Read more

13 Jan

Confabulation presents: The Shortest Story XIII

Our annual 2-minute story tradition continues. True stories, as quick as we can tell More info Read more

15 Mar

Counter Offence

Set in 90’s Montreal, Counter Offence tells the story of Shazia, an Indo-Quebecois woman who finds herself More info Read more

16 Mar

Counter Offence

Set in 90’s Montreal, Counter Offence tells the story of Shazia, an Indo-Quebecois woman who finds herself More info Read more

 

QWF Annual Timeline

Zines laid out on a page

January

Woman reading at a microphone in front of an intimate audience

February

March

April

  • QWF Annual General Meeting (AGM)
  • Writers in the Community Pyramid Campaign ends
Stacks of books on display

May

June

Women in a classroom

July

People wearing summer clothes in nature

August

Two women smiling at the camera

September

Group of women smiling at camera

October

November

December

The QWF Office closes for the last two weeks of December—happy holidays!  
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