11 Nov

Way Out: Developing Long-Form Fiction Already in Progress

Open by application to writers with a novel or novella in progress Limited to More info Read more

13 Nov

Perfecting Your Pitch

Perfecting Your Pitch is a three-session intensive workshop designed to bring  out the best More info Read more

15 Nov

Storytelling-In Your Own Voice, In Your Own Words

Open to all Limited to 12 participants     Tell us a story of More info Read more

15 Nov

Writing Outside the Box: a Workshop on Edgy Fiction

Interested in examining unsettling or edgy themes but don’t know how to get started? More info Read more

15 Nov

Creating Compelling Non-Fiction

Open to all Limited to 12 participants   Creative non-fiction has been breaking out More info Read more

16 Nov

Poetry: An Act of Mischief

Open to all Limited to 12 participants   American poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) once More info Read more

16 Nov

Naked and Dreaming Forward: Reimagining Indigenous Masculinities Through Story

In this public lecture, settler scholar Sam McKegney draws from his recent book Carrying More info Read more

16 Nov

Suspended Meaning: Making Filmpoems

Open to all Limited to 12 participants   What happens when image and sound More info Read more

17 Nov

Life Writing: An Introductory Memoir Workshop

Open to all Limited to 12 participants   “Part of the art of memoir More info Read more

17 Nov

Story Technique – A Hands-on Investigation

Open to all Limited to 12 participants   “The only way … to learn More info Read more

18 Nov

Teen Spirit: Writing YA

Young adult fiction is a genre that has exploded in popularity in the last More info Read more

18 Nov

Read for The Cure 2021

Read for the Cure is an inspiring, annual literary event series, presented by Penguin 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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