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SUMMARY:Tattered Covers: 60+ Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss Tattered Covers\, a reading and open mic featuring writers aged 60+. \nAfter a film screening and discussion on ageism that we held in November 2025\, we realized it was high time for us to shine a spotlight on some of the wonderful older writers in our community. Hosted by Jim Olwell\, Tattered Covers will feature short readings by four writers aged 60+. Afterwards\, five open-mic readers will have four minutes each to read or perform their work. Free and open to all. Open-mic slots are reserved for QWF members aged 60+\, but all are welcome to attend. \nRequests for the open mic slots will be taken during the Zoom meeting once the event starts. They will be assigned on a first-come\, first-served basis or\, if there are too many sign-ups all at once\, by lottery. Show up right at 2:00 p.m. for the best chance of getting a slot! \nWhether you’re looking to hear from some of QWF’s most experienced writers or you’re hoping to share your own work with a live audience\, we look forward to seeing you. \nOnline via Zoom. Register to get the Zoom link. \nThe Host\nPhoto: Paule Morency\nJim Olwell was born and raised in New York City\, where he organized The Irish Arts Center from 1972 to 1978\, which was the subject of his memoir\, The Art of Being Irish in Hell’s Kitchen\, published in 2024 with FriesenPress. He worked professionally for 23 years at the CLSC NDG/Benny Farm as Community Organizer and was made a member of La Societe des Grands Citoyens by the CDN/NDG Borough in 2013. He worked as well with the McGill Middle East Program in Peace Building and Civil Society. He has published two chapbooks of poetry—Crossings in 2016 (Iron Rabbitt Bindery) and Pensions in 2019 (Snow Press)—with a third\, Long Time Coming\, due in 2027. In 2015\, he co-founded and ran Speakup: The Montreal Interactive Poetry Exchange until 2020\, and he co-founded The 2 Susans Poetry Circle\, now in its eleventh year. \n\n \n\nThe Readers\n \nPeter Richardson is the author of four collections of poetry. His most recent book is Bit Parts for Fools (Goose Lane Editions\, 2013). Sympathy for the Couriers (Véhicule Press\, 2007) won the QWF’s 2008 A.M. Klein Award. His poems have been in Poetry\, The Sonora Review\, The Fiddlehead and The Malahat Review among others. He recently finished a fifth manuscript\, titled\, Tiara of Fish Heads. A former airport worker at both Mirabel and Trudeau Airports\, he lives in Montreal (Tiohtia:ke). \n\n \n\nJanet Torge lives in Montreal and is always looking for new adventures. She’s been a television documentary producer\, a prenatal teacher. an overnight talk-show host at CFCF Radio\, traffic reporter and Radio Noon host at CBC Montreal\, a columnist at the Montreal Gazette\, and co-founder of the first rape relief centre in Canada. She recently trained as a Death Doula and is also the author of Dear Sam\, a book about the death of her son. \n\n \n\nDorothy W. Williams\, Ph.D.\, specializes in Black Canadian history. She has authored books and contributed to scholarly and academic publications. In 2006\, she established Blacbiblio.com Inc. to create a comprehensive record of their historical presence in the country. Then in 2016\, she launched the bilingual ABC’s of Canadian Black History Kit to facilitate the teaching of Canada’s unknown Black history. With her unique historical knowledge\, Dr. Williams has consulted on films\, plays\, tv documentaries\, and radio productions. She has acquired 20+ years of work in community development\, and decades as a volunteer archivist within the community. Her Sankofa Archives and Collection is now the foundation of her research in history\, identity and race\, art history\, gender\, family\, history of medicine\, biography\, community development\, entrepreneurship\, and education. Dr. Williams is a retired professor from Concordia University’s Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability. \n\n \n\nPhoto: Louise Abbott\nAlice Zorn has published three novels: Arrhythmia (NeWest Press\, 2011)\, Five Roses (Dundurn Press\, 2016)\, and Colours in Her Hands (Freehand Books\, 2024). Five Roses was shortlisted for the 2017 Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award\, as well as translated into French as Le rosier de la Pointe. Colours in Her Hands was selected as the featured title for the 2025 One Book\, One Community program in Athabasca. Her collection of short stories\, Ruins & Relics\, was a finalist for the 2009 McAuslan Quebec Writers’ Federation First Book Prize. Her most recent book of short fiction\, Mind the Gap\, was published by NeWest Press in 2026. She has twice placed first in Prairie Fire’s Fiction Contest and won the 2013 Manitoba Magazine Award for Fiction. She participated in the Banff Writing Studio\, and was both a mentee (2004) and a mentor (2015) in the Quebec Writers’ Federation Mentorship Program. Originally from Ontario\, she has been living in Montreal since 1986. \n\n \n\nRegister for Zoom link
URL:https://qwf.org/event/tattered-covers-60-reading-and-open-mic/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Member Meetup,Reading
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