Woman with white shirt
2 Dec

Slantwise to the Truth: Navigating Narrative Nonfiction

“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant/success in Circuit lies” — let poet Emily Dickinson’s words inspire you as we navigate narrative nonfiction, writing that takes the best elements of fiction, applies those to facts, and ends with compelling stories.

4 Dec

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.

4 Dec

Graphic Novel Book Club: Grass

Each month we host a Graphic Novel Book Club, open to all, during which More info Read more

4 Dec

Accent Open Mic

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

4 Dec

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.

7 Dec

Funny Boy (Violet Hour Book Club)

Join us for the next meeting of the Violet Hour Book Club, a reading More info Read more

7 Dec

Launch of Ethel Meilleur’s “Funny Girl”

Ethel Meilleur will read from her first chapbook, Funny Girl, published by Sky of More info Read more

9 Dec

Please join McGill’s Institute for Human Development and Well-being (IHDW) in partnership with Poetry More info Read more

9 Dec

Manifestos As A Poetic Form

Please join McGill’s Institute for Human Development and Well-being (IHDW), in partnership with Poetry More info Read more

9 Dec

Carmen Maria Machado launches IN THE DREAM HOUSE

Join us for an evening with National Book Award Finalist & Guggenheim Fellow Carmen More info Read more

Woman with white shirt
9 Dec

Slantwise to the Truth: Navigating Narrative Nonfiction

“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant/success in Circuit lies” — let poet Emily Dickinson’s words inspire you as we navigate narrative nonfiction, writing that takes the best elements of fiction, applies those to facts, and ends with compelling stories.

10 Dec 15 Dec

Double Bill: Dark Red by: Willow Cioppa & Cry Baby by: Kalale Dalton-Lutale

For the first time ever, Black Theatre Workshop & Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal will be 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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