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5 Oct

Book Launch: Protocolo 48 by Gloria Macher

Thurs, October 5, 7 pm You are invited to the book launch of Gloria … More info Read more
5 Oct

Temporarily Stairs: Developing and Refining Long-Form Fiction

This workshop is intended for writers who are looking for resources and encouragement while working on a novel or novella already in progress.
6 Oct

Shut Up & Write! with QWF—In Person!

Friday, October 6, 12:30 pm–3:00 pmFree, In PersonQWF Office (Room 3, 1200 Atwater Ave., … More info Read more
10 Oct

Mille-Feuille: Writing Layered Nonfiction

In this online generative workshop, we’ll practice writing as a process of accretion, starting small and layering, adding texture and depth to our memoirs or personal and lyric essays. 
10 Oct

Fundamentals of Short Fiction

Eight Tuesdays, Oct 3-Nov 21, 8-10pmOpen to allLimited to 12 participantsHybrid Workshop This is … More info Read more
11 Oct

Playwriting Circle: Do Be So Dramatic

This will be a Learn-by-Doing-as-You-Go, anecdotal (in a theatre history way), ease-you-into-it experience that’s not scary or overwhelming and will result in the participants having something dramatic to show for it at the end of the session.
11 Oct

So You’ve Written a Novel – Now What?

This 8-week workshop aims to fully lay out the roadmap to traditional publishing for someone who’s finished, or is close to finishing a fiction manuscript.
12 Oct

Opening the Floodgates: A Short Fiction Workshop

An eight-week workshop designed to help fiction writers open the creative floodgates. Feeling stuck in your writing? You are not alone!

12 Oct

Mille-Feuille: Writing Layered Nonfiction

Eight Thursdays, Oct 5-Dec 7 (no meeting Oct 26 and Nov 23), 6:30-8:30pmOpen to … More info Read more
12 Oct

Temporarily Stairs: Developing and Refining Long-Form Fiction

This workshop is intended for writers who are looking for resources and encouragement while working on a novel or novella already in progress.
13 Oct

The Department of English at McGill University invites you to a joint reading with the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated authors Kasia Van Schaik & Padma Viswanathan. The readings will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Professor Ara Osterweil. This event does not require registration.
14 Oct

Shut Up & Write! with QWF

Saturday, October 14, 10:00 am–12:30 pmOnline via Zoom—RSVP below to receive the Zoom link … 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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