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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
23 Oct

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.
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24 Oct

Seasons Change: An Afternoon Writing Activity

Join the Atwater Writers Exhibition for a two-hour writing activity led by poet Deanna … More info Read more
24 Oct

Visit from award winning author Eliza Robertson

Join us Thursday October 24 at 2:30pm for a visit with award winning author … More info Read more
24 Oct

The Very Short Story: Reading and Writing Fiction of 300 to 1000 Words

In this class we will be reading and discussing a wide variety of very short stories, from  contemporary writers and writers of the past. We will be reading as writers: seeking inspiration, and looking at what these stories are doing and how they achieve their ends. What makes a story a story? What can be left out? What is the effect of omission?

 

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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

November

December

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