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24 Apr
Workshop

Edit Your Own Prose: The Art of Rewriting

The workshop will focus on big-picture issues, including story line, character development, and genre expectations, and help you bring the story alive on the page through rhythm, effective dialogue, and language choices.
24 Apr
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2024 Annual General Meeting

The Quebec Writers’ Federation Annual General Meeting will be held Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 7:00 pm at the Adair Auditorium and online via Zoom. The meeting is open to all QWF members.
24 Apr
Event

Book Launch: Summer in Furnished Rooms by Marc Plourde

Join us for the launch of Marc Plourde’s new poetry collection Summer in Furnished Rooms (Cormorant Books) at The Word Bookstore. Featuring special guest Robyn Sarah.
24 Apr
Workshop

Speaking Truth to Power: How to Write Non-Didactic Political Poetry

This 8-week poetry workshop focuses on writing poetry that engages with social justice and politics without leaning too far into didacticism and prescriptiveness, without sounding too preachy or like a chant in a march.
25 Apr − 28 Apr
Event

2024 BLUE METROPOLI S INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL

Each year the Festival is structured aroundone theme. In 2024, our theme will be: … More info Read more
25 Apr
Event

Remember This: Book Launch

Monique Polak launches her latest book for kids, Remember This: The Fascinating World of … More info Read more
25 Apr
Event

MacLennan Lecture | Book challenges and their impact on Canadian communities, a round table discussion (hybrid) 

The Friends of the McGill Library, in partnership with Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, … More info Read more
25 Apr
Workshop

Getting Weird: Crafting Surreal Short Stories

Getting Weird is an 8-week short fiction workshop that focuses on writing strangeness into the everyday, as a method for exploring and disrupting questions of race, gender, sexuality, climate change, capitalism, and other big topics.
25 Apr
Workshop

Speculative Fiction Master Class: Readying Your Work for Publication

Speculative fiction is defined broadly to include anything from science fiction to fantasy to slipstream to magic realism. Participants are free to submit a short story, an excerpt from a larger work, a script, speculative poetry, a comic, or graphic novel excerpt.
27 Apr
QWF Event

Shut Up & Write! with QWF (Virtual)

Looking for some dedicated, quiet writing space?

Join us for a virtual session of Shut Up & Write! with QWF. RSVP to register for the session.
27 Apr
Workshop

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Writing Residencies!

Writing residencies are ideal for focusing time on large projects, meeting other artists, and re-booting your creative life. In this two-day workshop, we will explore how writers can benefit from different residency opportunities and how to put forward the strongest application possible.

 

QWF Annual Timeline

Zines laid out on a page

January

Woman reading at a microphone in front of an intimate audience

February

March

April

  • The QWF Annual General Meeting (AGM) is held
  • Writers in the Community Pyramid Campaign closes
  • Applications for StoryScaping program begins for organizations
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

  • Call for applications for Max Margles Writing Residency (postponed to February-March for 2024 Residency)
  • Registration for Winter-Spring Workshops opens
  • QWF Office closes for the last two weeks of December. Happy holidays!