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SUMMARY:Kabir Centre Poetry Meet
DESCRIPTION:December 1\, 20241:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nYou’re invited to the next Kabir Centre Poetry Meet! \n\n\n\nAs always\, we welcome a mix of different languages and age groups.  As a policy\, we recommend avoiding religious and political extremism. If you would like to attend as an audience\, please RSVP by emailing kabirpoetryclub@gmail.com. \n\n\n\nPoets are welcome to recite an original poem in any language. To do so\, please email kabirpoetryclub@gmail.com stating your interest by 27th November.  \n\n\n\nChai and samosa will be served during the meet. \n\n\n\nIf you know someone who would like to recite or attend the meet\, please feel free to share the information.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/kabir-centre-poetry-meet/
LOCATION:Maison Chaïshaï\, 2005 Bishop Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2E9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Reading
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SUMMARY:Maybe Magazine Issue 2 Launch
DESCRIPTION:December 1\, 2024\, 7:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nMaybe Magazine invites you to the launch of their second issue in print\, featuring readings from emerging and established writers in Montreal\, accompanied by a performance from psychedelic rock musician Holly McLachlan. Maybe Magazine curates the cutting-edge of Montreal literature\, featuring voice-driven and experimental work drenched in the influence of the internet and kept warm with wide-eyed sincerity. Join us for a night of poetry\, prose\, and music in the punky & beloved Brasserie Beaubien. \n\n\n\nMagazines as well as chapbooks from the readers will be available for purchase with cash. \n\n\n\nMaybe Magazine is edited by Gwen Aube and Simina Banu\, and Issue 2 features work from Maya Chambers\, Danielle Douez\, Lucy Earle\, Bronwyn Garden-Smith\, Shelby Kersey\, Katia Lo Innes\, Khashayar Mohammadi\, Kat Mulligan\, Jade Palmer\, Dimana Radoeva\, and Nat Raum.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/maybe-magazine-issue-2-launch/
LOCATION:Brasserie Beaubien\, 73 rue Beaubien Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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SUMMARY:Cactus Press Triple Launch
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, December 1\, 20248:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nJoin us December 1st at the Accent Reading Series for a momentous triple launch of Cactus Press chapbooks with April L. Ford\, Lou Vani and Patrick O’Reilly. Theme: Frills. Sign up for the open mic at door.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/cactus-press-triple-launch/
LOCATION:Bar La Marche à Côté\, 5043 Saint Denis St\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2J 2L8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Open Mic,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241203T183000
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SUMMARY:Cory Lavender\, Jesse Eckerlin\, and Nyla Matuk
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, December 3\, 2024\, 6:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nCory Lavender launches Come One Thing Another (Gaspereau Press) and Jesse Eckerlin launches Almost Nothing (Anstruther Press)\, with readings from both and special guest Nyla Matuk\, author of Stranger (Véhicule Press). \n\n\n\nPlease RSVP (Free) below: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/an-evening-of-poetry-with-cory-lavender-and-guests-tickets-1081026211499?aff=oddtdtcreator \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP
URL:https://qwf.org/event/cory-lavender-jesse-eckerlin-and-nyla-matuk/
LOCATION:Librairie Saint-Henri Bookstore\, 4622 Rue Notre-Dame Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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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:Montreal launch of The Sacred Heart Motel
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, December 6\, 20247:00-9:00 pm ET\n\n\n\n“I’m sick / of outsourcing care to desire” writes Grace Kwan in this sure-footed\, arrestingly wise début\, and this axis\, between fantasies of belonging and the experience of being held\, is perhaps at the core of the book\, threaded through each poem. If “again and again I’ve abandoned my urgency / for the romance of cruelty\,” how does that self in each of us return? \n\n\n\n— River Halen\, author of Dream Rooms \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Grace Kwan for the Montreal launch of THE SACRED HEART MOTEL\, taking place at Co-op Agenda in Petite-Patrie. \n\n\n\nFeaturing special guests Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and Carlos A. Pittella \n\n\n\nFood! Drinks! Readings! Heart-shaped key chains! \n\n\n\nIn poet Grace Kwan’s debut\, they are ruthless and nimble\, guiding us through the recesses of body and roadside space. The reader tours the motel through this multiverse narrative\, from amenities to rooms to back alleys\, through the generations of ghosts and queer love stories\, until they are left alone with the heart at the centre. The Sacred Heart Motel is a disorienting\, startling collection about placelessness and longing. \n\n\n\nGrace Kwan is a Malaysian-born sociologist and writer based in “Vancouver\,” the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Their recent poetry appears in Canthius\, Room Magazine\, and others. Find them at https://grckwn.wordpress.com/. \n\n\n\nEli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a writer living in Tio’tià:ke. Their work has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 anthology\, GUTS\, carte blanche\, the Shade Journal\, The New Quarterly\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and elsewhere. They were longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2019. Their book knot body (2020)\, published by Metatron Press\, was shortlisted for the QWF Concordia University First Book Prize. The Good Arabs (2021)\, published by Metonymy Press\, was the winner of the 2022 Grand Prix du livre de Montréal and received an Honorable Mention from the 2022 Arab American Book Awards for the George Ellenbogen Poetry Award. \n\n\n\nCarlos A. Pittella (he/him) is a Latinx poet & the recipient of a Frontier 2022 Global Poetry Prize. Born in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil\, he lives in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke & currently teaches Poetry at John Abbott College. He completed his MA in English/Creative Writing at Concordia University\, where he co-edited Headlight Anthology with the team who won the 2023 Forces AVENIR award. He also holds a doctorate in Literary Studies\, having defended his thesis on the trilingual sonnets of Fernando Pessoa. His writing is haunted by borders\, having recently appeared in Jacket2\, The Capilano Review\, & in the chapbook footnotes after Lorca (above/ground press\, 2024). \n\n\n\nCo-op Agenda is wheelchair accessible and has all-gender washrooms. We ask that attendees mask when they’re not eating or drinking. We will have air purifiers on site. There will be a lot of seating and an intermission. More detailed accessibility info coming soon.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/montreal-launch-of-the-sacred-heart-motel/
LOCATION:Co-Op Agenda\, 6692 Saint Denis St\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2S 2R9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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