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25 Nov

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.

25 Nov

New Reads: Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

The New Reads Book Club focuses on contemporary literature and is hosted by Drawn More info Read more

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25 Nov

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.

26 Nov

Atwater Poetry Project presents…Gail Scott & Armand Ruffo

Save the date! Atwater Poetry Project is delighted to present readings and conversation from More info Read more

26 Nov

Strange Futures Book Club: Moon of the Crusted Snow

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

27 Nov

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.

27 Nov

Fawn Parker and Tara McGowan-Ross Double Launch

Join local poet and benign degenerate Tara McGowan-Ross as well as rock star Fawn More info Read more

27 Nov

Mansfield Press Book Launches

Mansfield Press is coming to Montreal to celebrate the debut book of local hero More info Read more

27 Nov

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.

28 Nov

SpeakUp

FREE SpeakUp: Interactive Poetry Exchange of Montreal Poets: Blossom Thom, Greg Santos, Clarence Baynes More info Read more

28 Nov

Connor Willumsen launches Bradley of Him

Connor Willumsen presents his latest book BRADLEY OF HIM, the ever-shifting story of a More info Read more

29 Nov

Book Launch: “The Best of the Worst News: Tales of Inspiration from Around the World and My Life with ALS”

Norman MacIsaac was alone on a cold December day when he received his worst 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
Stacks of books on display

May

June

Women in a classroom

July

People wearing summer clothes in nature

August

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September

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October

November

December

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