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3 Nov

Read Quebec Book Fair Opening Cocktail

Following the book fair events in the 4TH SPACE, attendees are invited to attend a wine and cheese reception to mingle with fellow book lovers, peruse and purchase books.
4 Nov − 5 Nov

Authors and Artists Festival: Rewilding

The 4th annual Authors and Artists Festival, with the theme ReWilding will be held … More info Read more
4 Nov

Create Your Own Comic Strip!

We’ll explore the basic building blocks to get you started on drawing and writing a (mostly silly!) comic strip featuring fun characters we’ll create together. Close up faces, word balloons, sound effects and more! For kids 5 to 9. 
4 Nov

Getting Lit with Linda: Live podcast recording featuring guests Catherine Hernandez and Eva Crocker

In a first-ever episode with a live audience, award-winning podcaster Dr. Linda Morra will interview novelists Catherine Hernandez and Eva Crocker. Both authors will be available to sign books afterward. Co-sponsored by Montreal’s queer reading series, the Violet Hour.
4 Nov

Postcards to the Future!

Mail a message to your older self. We’ll be designing with words and pictures a double sided postcard with a message you’d like your future self to know. It could be serious or playful or both, you decide what the adult version of you should know! For kids 10 and up.
4 Nov

Scarborough Screening

In a pre-festival special event, Image+Nation Queer Culture, Montreal’s long-running queer film festival, will join the Violet Hour to co-sponsor this moving film, an adaptation of Catherine Hernandez’s novel of the same name.
4 Nov

Making Monster Heads – An Exercise in Slow Group Drawing

Together we’ll SLOWLY build a weird and wonderful bunch of monster heads that we can only create as a team! For all ages.
Elaine Kalman Naves headshot
6 Nov

Advanced Memoir: Maintaining Momentum

This workshop on memoir is designed for people who have already studied at the intermediate  or advanced level … More info Read more
6 Nov

Writers Read x Iman Mersal

On November 6th, 2023 at 7pm, author Iman Mersal will be at Concordia University … More info Read more
7 Nov

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. 
7 Nov

Fundamentals of Short Fiction

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

The Writer Is In: Pop-Up Writing Booth

Join us for The Writer Is In, a free series of pop-up writing events we’ll be holding in and around downtown Montreal in October and November. In early November we’ll be at Complexe Alexis Nihon in Westmount.

 

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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