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27 Nov

The Vivid and Continuous Dream: A Short Story Workshop

In March, in 1918, an Olympic swimmer accepts a job rehabilitating the Polio-ravaged legs … More info Read more
28 Nov

CommUNITY Arts Open House: Schmoozer with YES, QWF, ELAN, and QDF

Calling All Quebec Artists! Join us for an epic arts mixer with YES Montreal, ELAN, and QDF.
28 Nov

Poetry and the Tiny Sea in the Ear

The tiny sea in the earand the moth wing in the mind, which wait.— … More info Read more
28 Nov

Montreal Reading with Dutch poet Erik Lindner

Véhicule Press, Librarie Bertrand, and the Dutch Foundation for Literature invite you to a poetry reading by Erik Lindner, with special guests Derek Webster and Sarah Wolfson.
28 Nov

Book*hug Press Fall 2024 Translated Fiction Launch

Book*hug Press and Librairie Saint-Henri Books invite you to the Fall 2024 Translation Launch! Celebrating the launch of three new translations including Nauetakuan, a silence for a noise by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine (translated from French by Howard Scott), Not Even the Sound of a River by Hélène Dorion (translated from French by Jonathan Kaplansky), and Sugaring Off by Fanny Britt (translated from French by Susan Ouriou).
28 Nov

Pursuing the Erotic

This is an expanded version of the three-hour workshop “Identifying (with) the Erotic” offered … More info Read more
29 Nov

Shut Up & Write! with QWF (In Person)

Join us for an in-person Shut Up & Write session at the QWF office! Do all that writing you’ve been meaning to do, and meet a few of your fellow QWF members. Using the Pomodoro technique, participants write in 25 minute bursts, with 5-minute breaks in between.
29 Nov

Of Crows and Aunties: A Conversation with Jessica Johns

Catherine Leroux meets Jessica Johns, author of the acclaimed BAD CREE, with her translator Éric Fontaine, to discuss translation, crows, dreams, evil entities and the extraordinary power of aunties. This hour-long conversation will be conducted in English and French and will be followed by a signing session with the author.
1 Dec

Kabir Centre Poetry Meet

You’re invited to the next Kabir Centre Poetry Meet!
1 Dec

Geneviève Robichaud Book Launch

Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore and McGill-Queen’s University Press present a book launch for The Poetics of Translation by Geneviève Robichaud.

1 Dec

Maybe Magazine Issue 2 Launch

Maybe Magazine invites you to the launch of their second issue in print, featuring readings from emerging and established writers in Montreal, accompanied by a performance from psychedelic rock musician Holly McLachlan.
1 Dec

Cactus Press Triple Launch

Join us December 1st at the Accent Reading Series for a momentous triple launch of Cactus Press chapbooks with April L. Ford, Lou Vani and Patrick O’Reilly. Theme: Frills. Sign up for the open mic at door.

 

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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