14 May

Craft Meets Magic: The Alchemy of Short Fiction

Is there an art form more maddening than the short story? Demanding the complexity More info Read more

15 May

Book Launch: Quietly, Loving Everyone by Curtis John McRae

Véhicule Press invites you to the launch of Curtis John McRae’s debut short story More info Read more

16 May

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.

17 May

World Premiere of Michaela Di Cesare’s play Mickey & Joe (Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty)

150 years (give or take) after the “unification” of Italy, a forgotten player finds More info Read more

18 May 27 May

2025 Ireland Writing Retreat

May 18-27, 2025 join a small group (12 maximum) of writers focused on making More info Read more

18 May

UNMET Book Launch Halifax

The book launch for the poetry collection UNMET (Biblioasis) by stephanie roberts at the More info Read more

18 May

Poetry Launch with Terese Mason Pierre

Join us on May 8th at 7pm in launching Terese Mason Pierre’s poetry collection, More info Read more

18 May

World Premiere of Michaela Di Cesare’s play Mickey & Joe (Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty)

150 years (give or take) after the “unification” of Italy, a forgotten player finds More info Read more

19 May

Novel Essentials: The Art & Craft of Long-Form Fiction

Have you had an itch to write a novel, but haven’t known how to More info Read more

20 May

World Premiere of Michaela Di Cesare’s play Mickey & Joe (Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty)

150 years (give or take) after the “unification” of Italy, a forgotten player finds More info Read more

21 May

Craft Meets Magic: The Alchemy of Short Fiction

Is there an art form more maddening than the short story? Demanding the complexity More info Read more

21 May

World Premiere of Michaela Di Cesare’s play Mickey & Joe (Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty)

150 years (give or take) after the “unification” of Italy, a forgotten player finds 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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