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SUMMARY:Inspired Writing Retreat
DESCRIPTION:The Inspired Writing Retreat has been running at the beautiful Chateau de Bossey\, near Geneva\, Switzerland\, since 2017. QWF member Daniela Norris is one of its founding members and she warmly invites you to this event on the 15-16 March\, 2025. More details here https://lingurib.wixsite.com/inspiredwriting/about \n\n\n\nQWF Member Discount: Inspired Writing is offering a 10% discount to QWF members who sign up by 10 March. Use coupon code QWF2025 to get the discount. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://qwf.org/event/inspired-writing-retreat/
LOCATION:Château de Bossey\, Chem. Chenevière 2\, 1279 Bogis-Bossey\, Switzerland
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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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
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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:“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
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