6 Nov
Workshop

Perfecting Your Pitch

Perfecting Your Pitch is a three-session intensive workshop designed to bring  out the best More info Read more

6 Nov
Workshop

Write Here, Write Now! Local Journalism: A Special Workshop

Write Here, Write Now! special workshops focus on techniques to be used in poetry, More info Read more

6 Nov
Workshop

Poetry and the Document: A Workshop

Our lives are ruled by paper: birth certificates. Leases. Contracts. Yet, strangely, these documents More info Read more

8 Nov
Workshop

Storytelling-In Your Own Voice, In Your Own Words

Open to all Limited to 12 participants     Tell us a story of More info Read more

8 Nov
Workshop

Creating Compelling Non-Fiction

Open to all Limited to 12 participants   Creative non-fiction has been breaking out More info Read more

9 Nov
Workshop

Your Creative Family History

It’s possible to construct a “creative” family history by weaving together facts and suppositions. More info Read more

9 Nov
Workshop

Poetry: An Act of Mischief

Open to all Limited to 12 participants   American poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) once More info Read more

9 Nov
Workshop

Suspended Meaning: Making Filmpoems

Open to all Limited to 12 participants   What happens when image and sound More info Read more

10 Nov
Workshop

Life Writing: An Introductory Memoir Workshop

Open to all Limited to 12 participants   “Part of the art of memoir More info Read more

10 Nov
Workshop

Write Like a Pro

Writing can be an act of catharsis, a way of processing experiences during difficult More info Read more

10 Nov
Event

Read for The Cure 2021

Read for the Cure is an inspiring, annual literary event series, presented by Penguin More info Read more

10 Nov 30 Nov
Event

Jewish Book Month (it’s more than books!) – award winning writers, lectures, Russian culture, workshops- livestreamed until Nov. 30

Far from being only about books, this entertaining and thought-provoking series of multilingual, eclectic More info Read more

 

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!