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21 Oct

Writing to Preserve Memory: Capturing and Sharing Life Stories

In this memoir workshop, we will explore how to begin telling your story and review examples of the different ways that a story can be told. Will it be a travelogue or will it focus on major events that influenced your life? Or will it be about a relationship with a loved one? These are just a few possibilities.
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21 Oct

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.
22 Oct

WORDPLAY A writing workshop in celebration of creativity and wonder

In a time of busy schedules, and places to be and people to see, … More info Read more
22 Oct

Launch SCR Spotlight: The Word Bookstore

Join us for the launch of our Spotlight edition, featuring The Word Bookstore. Doors … More info Read more
22 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.
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22 Oct

The 2019 QWF Literary Awards – Finalists Reading!

Meet the finalists for the 2019 QWF Literary Awards! Join us as we celebrate … More info Read more
22 Oct

Visual Arts Centre Readings Series

Visual Arts Centre Readings Series Brandon Pitts Ilona Martonfi Matt Risk Kelly Norah Drukker … More info Read more
22 Oct

Strange Futures Book Club: Severance

The Strange Futures book club focuses on sci-fi and speculative fiction by QT/BIPOC writers. … More info Read more
23 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.
23 Oct

The Violet Hour

An evening of short readings and performances by LGBTQ writers. Featuring Trebor Healey, Johanne … More info Read more
23 Oct

Book Launch

Launch of the novel HOME GAME by Endre Farkas, Wednesday Oct 23, from 7-9 … More info Read more
23 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

 

QWF Annual Timeline

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January

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February

March

April

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

June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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December

The QWF Office closes for the last two weeks of December—happy holidays!  
Join Waitlist We will inform you of any newly available spots for this workshop via email. Please note: once you receive the notice of availability, you will have 48hrs to register —or 24hrs if the workshop begins in a week or less— before the spot is made available to the next person.
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