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SUMMARY:2025 Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The 2025 Quebec Writers’ Federation Annual General Meeting will be held \n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 22\, 2025 at 7:00 pm EDTatAdair Auditorium\, Atwater Library1200 Atwater Avenue (top floor)and online via Zoom\n\n\n\nAt the meeting\, the President will review the year’s activities and the Executive Director will present the financial report. An election will be held for the Board of Directors for the coming year – April 2025 to April 2026.  If you wish to nominate someone for a position on the Board\, or to put your own name forward\, please contact Riley Palanca (riley@qwf.org) and request the Introduction for Potential Board Members document and a nomination form. Completed nomination forms\, including the signatures of two other QWF members\, must be submitted to Riley by Friday\, April 11\, 2025. \n\n\n\nPlease note that you must be a member in good standing to be eligible to run for the board\, nominate someone for the board\, or vote at the AGM. \n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n\n7:00-7:15: Schmoozing\n\n\n\n7:15: Call to order\n\n\n\nReport from the outgoing QWF President\, Tawhida Tanya Evanson\n\n\n\nFinancial report\, presented by the QWF Executive Director\, Lori Schubert\n\n\n\nElection or acclamation of new Board of Directors\n\n\n\nParting words from the incoming President\, Crystal Chan\n\n\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\nTo register\, fill out the RSVP form at the bottom of this page. Please indicate whether you will be attending in person or online via Zoom. If attending online\, you’ll receive a link to the Zoom meeting a day or two before the meeting takes place. \n\n\n\nRegistration will close on Tuesday\, April 22\, at 5:00 pm ET. If you would like to register to attend after registration has closed\, please contact John Wickham at john@qwf.org to be put on the attendance list. Please also indicate whether you will attend in person or on Zoom. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you will be attending online\, you will receive a link to the Zoom meeting the day before or day of the meeting\, depending on when you register.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/2025-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Adair Auditorium\, Atwater Library\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, top floor\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3Z 1T4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 26\, 2025\, 10:00 am–12:30 pm ETOnline via Zoom—RSVP below to receive the Zoom link\n\n\n\nLooking for some dedicated\, quiet writing space? \n\n\n\nRegister below to do all that writing you’ve been meaning to do. Using the Pomodoro technique\, participants write in 25-minute bursts\, with 5-minute breaks in between. \n\n\n\nThis event is for QWF members only. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member.  \n\n\n\nThe Zoom link will be sent out a day or two before the session. \n\n\n\nPlease note that these sessions are designed for silent writing\, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work. \n\n\n\n10:00–10:25: Writing 110:25–10:30: Break10:30–10:55: Writing 210:55–11:00: Break11:00–11:25: Writing 311:25–11:30: Break11:30–11:55: Writing 411:55–12:00: Break12:00–12:25: Writing 5 \n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom link\, RSVP below. You will receive the Zoom link a few days before the session. \n\n\n\nNote: RSVPs for virtual Shut Up & Write! sessions close 24 hours before the session begins. If there is no option to RSVP\, RSVPs are closed.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-virtual-33/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Shut Up & Write!
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SUMMARY:Imagination –Writing Dialogue for the Stage Workshop
DESCRIPTION:April 22-27\, 2025\, 11:00 am-12:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nJoin us for this Imagination festival workshop! \n\n\n\nHow does dialogue work in the theatre\, and how does it relate to character and action? Join playwright Leanna Brodie for this workshop to find out! With a mix of theory and hands-on exercises\, explore various approaches to writing for multiple voices and generating text for the stage. \n\n\n\nPhoto by Kristine Cofsky\n\n\n\nLeanna Brodie is an award-winning performer and writer whose plays include The Vic\, For Home and Country\, The Book of Esther\, and Schoolhouse\, which have been performed across Canada. Most recently\, Salesman in China\, written in collaboration with Jovanni Sy\, premiered at the Stratford Festival and National Arts Centre to great acclaim\, winning the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for best new play. Brodie is also a leading translator of Québécois and Franco-Canadian playwrights. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Imagination Writers’ Festival in partnership with QWF’s Writers Out Loud series.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/imagination-writing-dialogue-for-the-stage-workshop/
LOCATION:Morrin Centre\, 44 Chaussée des Écossais\, Quebec City\, Quebec\, G1R 4H3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Workshops,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: To Care for the Earth—In Conversation with Alice Irene Whittaker
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 26\, 2025\, 2:30 pm ETHôtel 10 – Salle Jardin\n\n\n\nNovelist Ian Thomas Shaw interviews author Alice Irene Whittaker to explore the profound act of finding home in nature at a time of heartbreaking change. In her book\, Homing: A Quest for Care for Myself and the Earth\, Alice Irene weaves the wisdom of leading environmentalists with her journey of embracing nature’s cycles in a cabin in the woods\, where she strives to shed perfectionism and cultivate a life rooted in regeneration and care. \n\n\n\nPart of QWF’s Writers Out Loud series. Presented in partnership with the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-to-care-for-the-earth-in-conversation-with-alice-irene-whittaker/
LOCATION:Hotel 10\, 10 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 4C9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Imagination Writers' Festival: Sabrina Reeves
DESCRIPTION:April 26\, 2025\, 2:30-3:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nEnjoy an interview with Sabrina Reeves\, author of Little Crosses\, at this Imagination event! \n\n\n\nPhoto by Tony Chong\n\n\n\nSabrina Reeves grew up in Boston and New York and currently lives in Montreal. Her artistic practice has primarily been in writing performance texts and plays. She founded the performance company Bluemouth Inc.\, with whom she has written and staged over a dozen original works and performed at festivals and theatres all over the world. In 2018\, she completed an MFA in creative writing at Concordia University\, where she was awarded the Dean of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Creative Writing. Her first novel\, Little Crosses\, was published in March of 2024 by House of Anansi Press and was awarded the Concordia University First Book Prize and the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for fiction. \n\n\n\nHost : Leila Paddack-Trudel \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Imagination Writers’ Festival in partnership with QWF’s Writers Out Loud series.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/imagination-writers-festival-sabrina-reeves/
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