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1 Oct

Write Now: A Playwriting Intensive to Jumpstart Your Play

This 8-week workshop is designed to get your play out of your head and onto the page. Through a combination of in-class writing exercises and reading scripts aloud, it will allow playwrights to take their scripts to the next level.
1 Oct

Montreal West Reads

Alan Hustak discussing his latest work, “Magnetic North The Unauthorised Biography of Justin Trudeau, … More info Read more
1 Oct

Greenwood’s StoryFest 2019

2019 Giller Prize for Fiction long-list finalist Steven Price will be StoryFest’s guest author.
1 Oct

POSTPONED* Book launch: Malcolm Gladwell – Talking to Strangers

POSTPONED* Ticket holders – Your ticket will be honoured for the revised date of … More info Read more
2 Oct

Expanding Our Poetic Range through Memory, Place, and the Senses

How, as writers, can we break the surface of the everyday and go deep? Over the eight sessions of the workshop, we will take some time to dwell in the places our writers’ sensibility can travel to when we tune in to our senses and journey into memory and place. The aim of this workshop will be to generate a rich pool of new material, from which our best work can emerge.
2 Oct

Jay Stephens Launches Dejects

Join Jay for the launch of DEJECTS, featuring work from 1991–present day, collected here … More info Read more
2 Oct

P O E T R Y N I T E

Our first show back was … WOW! Seriously, this community – our talent – … More info Read more
2 Oct

Accent Open Mic

  Accent Open Mic La Marche à Côté, 5043 St. Denis 7:30pm, 1st and … More info Read more
2 Oct

Everything Happens at Once: Your Page One

In this fiction-writing workshop, we will get our stories to hit the ground running by working on our Page One. Short story or long-form fiction, all the elements of narration are thrown into play right away on the first page (okay, maybe a little on the second). The themes and problems of the piece are all present, stated or suggested, sometimes hidden. We will learn to do that: get out of the starting blocks fast, leaving our anxieties behind.
3 Oct

The Very Short Story: Reading and Writing Fiction of 300 to 1000 Words

In this class we will be reading and discussing a wide variety of very short stories, from  contemporary writers and writers of the past. We will be reading as writers: seeking inspiration, and looking at what these stories are doing and how they achieve their ends. What makes a story a story? What can be left out? What is the effect of omission?
3 Oct

Antoni Porowski launches Antoni in the Kitchen

On Thursday, October 3rd, join Antoni Porowski of Queer Eye for the launch of … More info Read more
3 Oct

Argo Reading Series: Verse, Prose & Song

Argo Reading Series Thursday, October 3, 2019 Tom Abray Ilona Martonfi Megan Callahan Michael … 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

  • QWF Annual General Meeting (AGM)
  • Writers in the Community Pyramid Campaign ends
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

The QWF Office closes for the last two weeks of December—happy holidays!  
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