Quebec Writers' Federation

Antoni Porowski launches Antoni in the Kitchen
2019-10-03 18:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Rialto Theatre, 5723 Av du Parc, Montréal, Québec, H2V 4G9, Canada
On Thursday, October 3rd, join Antoni Porowski of Queer Eye for the launch of his brand new cook book Antoni in the Kitchen at the Rialto Theatre, presented by Librairie Drawn & Quarterly. Porowski will be in conversation, followed by a cooking demo and audience Q+A. There are limited VIP tickets for a pre-show photograph opportunity with Antoni Porowski, with a donation to the Mile End Mission.
Antoni is the food and wine guru on Netflix’s Emmy Award-winning sensation Queer Eye, and his passion for food is completely irresistible. A television personality, chef, model, and now cookbook author, Antoni is a man of many talents and even more fascinating stories. During this evening event, Antoni will demo recipes from the book, answer questions from the audience, and share why food, healthy living, and community are so important to him.
Antoni in the Kitchen (published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , on sale September 9) brings together Antoni’s trademark inclusive and accessible attitude to food with one hundred of his all-time favorite recipes. This cookbook celebrates Antoni’s love for fresh, casual, and healthy cooking, and the occasional indulgent feast, and inspires both newbies and knowledgeable cooks to get back into the kitchen.
VIP tickets include a Meet & Greet with Antoni and benefits the Mile End Mission.
EVENT ONLY TICKETS:
Book+ Single Ticket Combo: $43 +tax
Book + Ticket Combo includes one signed copy of Antoni in the Kitchen and one admission.
Book + Two Ticket Combo: $58+tax
Book + Two Ticket Combo includes one signed copy of Antoni in the Kitchen and 2 admissions.
**SOLD OUT **VIP PRE-SHOW MEET & GREET TICKETS:
Admission+Photo opportunity with Antoni Porwoski+one signed copy of Antoni in the Kitchen + benefit the Mile End Mission (limited availability): $90+tax
Photos will be begin at 6pm at Cabaret Rialto and are limited to 100 people.

Argo Reading Series: Verse, Prose & Song
2019-10-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Argo Bookshop, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Argo Reading Series
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Tom Abray
Ilona Martonfi
Megan Callahan
Michael Mirolla
Salena Wiener
John Kerkhoven (music)
Tracey Waddleton
Lisanne Gamelin
Mike Di Sclafani
Maxianne Berger
An Evening of Verse, Prose & Song
Argo Bookshop 1915 Ste. Catherine St. West
https://www.argobookshop.ca/ Hosted with Moti Lieberman
Artistic Director Ilona Martonfi ilona.martonfi@sympatico.ca
7-9 pm at the door $6
“We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts,
and the League of Canadian Poets.”
Facebook Event
Oct 3
THU
Argo Reading Series: Verse, Prose & Song

Urgency, Dread, Risk: A Short-Fiction Workshop
2019-10-03 20:00 - 22:00, 2019-10-10 20:00 - 22:00 | Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Photo credit: Adam Michiels
This workshop is intended for fiction writers who have written short stories before, and who have experience with the workshop environment. Limited to 12 participants.
We’ll be writing towards emotional impact. The workshop will be supplemented by readings and generative exercises to explore the question of expression vs. evocation—as well as imagination, self-surgery, ambition, and accountability. We’ll also talk about sentences, with a focus on line edits.
Participants will be workshopped twice. You’ll have the option of bringing in an existing piece and writing a new second piece, or else bringing in one piece followed by a revision of the same.
Readings will include Namwali Serpell, Jamel Brinkley, Casey Plett, Carys Davis, Octavia Butler, and Ottessa Moshfegh, among others.

Alix Ohlin, Audrée Wilhelmy & Megan Gail Cole Launch!
2019-10-04 19:00 - 21:00 | La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Bernard West, Montréal, Québec, H2T2K2, Canada
Women Do It Write: Alix Ohlin, Megan Gail Coles, and Audrée Wilhelmy in conversation about their beautiful, dark, and complex stories about women, their struggles, and their desires.
Join us as we celebrate the launch of Alix Ohlin’s Dual Citizens, Audrée Wilhelmy’s The Body of the Beasts & Megan Gail Coles’ Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club.

Vallum Issue 16:2 "Fear" Launch
2019-10-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Rocket Science Room, #204-170 Jean Talon O., Atlas Building Little Italy, Montreal, Quebec, H2R 2X4, Canada
Come celebrate the launch of Vallum 16:2 “Fear” at Rocket Science Room!
Doors: 6:30
Readings: 7:00
The evening will feature readings by:
Jan Conn
Jan Jorgensen
Carolyn Marie Souaid
Alex Manley
Lou Vani
emilie kneifel
Frances Boyle
Brian Campbell
Rod Kessler, on behalf of Malcolm Miller
Christian Favreau
and more.
This event is free with $5 suggested donation (no one turned away). Pay $10 for entry and get a copy of issue 16:2! All proceeds go towards Vallum’s community outreach program.
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The venue is on the second floor. There is a single flight of stairs off the main entrance with no wheelchair access, however there is a functioning elevator on the main floor. If you require assistance of any kind, please let us know! We’d be happy to accommodate any of your needs to the best of our ability.

Book Signing: Send More Tourists... the Last Ones Were Delicious
2019-10-06 13:00 - 16:00 | Indigo, Place Montreal Trust, 1500 McGill College Ave, Montréal, Quebec, H3A 3J5, Canada
Joignez-vous à nous en boutique lors de la séance de dédicaces avec l’auteure Tracey Waddleton. Elle signera des copies de son livre « Send More Tourists, The Last Ones Were Delicious ».
Join us in store as we welcome author Tracey Waddleton who will be stopping by to sign copies of her book “Send More Tourists, The Last Ones Were Delicious”.

Greenwood's StoryFest 2019
2019-10-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Stephen F. Shaar Community Centre, 394 Main, Hudson, Quebec, J0P 1H0, Canada
StoryFest 2019 welcomes Giller Prize for Fiction long-list finalist and native Montrealer Alix Ohlin.

Intro to Audiobooks with David Caron
2019-10-07 17:00 - 19:00 | Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 1X4, Canada
This seminar will cover all aspects of licensing and producing books as audiobooks, including audiobook publishers, basic contract terms, narrators, studios, distribution, and marketing. While primarily aimed at publishers, writers, producers, and other members of the public are welcome to attend.

Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series: Triple Book Launch
2019-10-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Café Résonance, 5175A Park Ave, Montreal, Quebec, H2V 4G3, Canada
Join us at Café Résonance for a triple launch of McGill-Queen’s University Press’s Hugh McClennan Poetry Series autumn releases: Rail by Miranda Pearson, Ganymede’s Dog by John Emil Vincent, and The Danger Model by Madelaine Caritas Longman.
Rail is Miranda Pearson’s fifth book of poetry. In this collection, spanning the personal and the political, Kentish pathways lead to London, to Yorkshire, to Faroe, then circle back to the west coast of Canada. An appeal, a railing against, these poems reach for beauty and compassion amidst uneasy global upheaval.
John Emil Vincent’s Ganymede’s Dog mingles tales from the classical past with contemporary sexuality and timeless dogs. Deeply infused with gay culture and mythology, Ganymede’s Dog is a collection of smart, knowing, allusive, often ironic poems that ponder the boundaries of legend and the privileges of youth and beauty.
Madelaine Caritas Longman’s debut poetry collection, The Danger Model, confronts questions about art, illness, identity, and the paradox of authenticity. Examining what it means to be a “self” in contexts as diverse as the medical system, performance art, queer adolescence, and Talmudic debate, The Danger Model is an investigation of how we come to recognize – or not recognize – ourselves and each other.

Coach House Poetry ft. KB Thors, Andrew Zawacki, Vincent Pagé
2019-10-07 19:00 - 21:00 | La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Bernard West, Montréal, Québec, H2T2K2, Canada
Join us for a poetry launch featuring three authors:
Vulgar Mechanics by KB Thors
Unsun by Andrew Zawacki
This is the Emergency Present by Vincent Pagé

Suspended Meaning: Filmpoems screening
2019-10-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Atwater Library Auditorium, 1200 Atwater Avenue, 2nd floor, Westmount, QC
The public premiere of original filmpoems from the ‘Suspended Meaning: Making Filmpoems’ workshops, facilitated by poet Rachel McCrum.
All welcome! The screening is FREE, no registration required.
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Accessibility: The screening will take place in the Atwater Library Auditorium, which is located up three flights of stairs. Unfortunately, the venue is not wheelchair accessible (although the Library is in the process of putting in an elevator which will make it accessible for future events.
This event is taking place on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka.
The workshops and event are generously supported by the Community Cultural Action Fund (CCAF) of the Department of Canadian Heritage. Part of the Atwater Writers’ Exhibition, and Mile End Poets’ Festival.
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You can find out more about the workshops – and register – here.

Write Now: A Playwriting Intensive to Jumpstart Your Play
2019-10-08 18:00 - 20:00, 2019-10-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Photo credit: Sabrina Reeves
This workshop will give budding and experienced playwrights a forum in which to hear their work read aloud and have it commented on, supported, and developed. Limited to 12 participants.
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.
Topics covered will include:

Character development
Structure
Dialogue
Stakes
Re-writes.

Each week, selected participants will bring in sections of their work for feedback.
The workshop will be more fun and useful to participants who have a play that they are already working on, a few scenes, or at the very least, an outline of the idea they wish to pursue. It may be of particular interest (and complementary) to those who have taken an Introduction to Playwriting workshop. Participants can expect to come out of the workshop with a more developed script as well as tools for carrying on with their work and some ideas/suggestions of where to go and what to do with a finished draft.

True Reads Book Club - Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
2019-10-08 19:00 - 21:00 | La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Bernard West, Montréal, Québec, H2T2K2, Canada
Come discuss the most interesting books in new Non-Fiction with our True Reads book club! Happening every 4-6 weeks hosted by Librairie Drawn & Quarterly staff.
For our OCTOBER meeting, we’ll be reading Trick Mirror: Reflection on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino. The book club will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Bernard Ouest at 7pm. This month’s meeting is hosted by Rachel.
Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity.
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino’s sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet.
**We offer a 20% discount on Trick Mirror: Reflection on Self-Delusion from now until the meeting date.**

Greenwood's StoryFest 2019
2019-10-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Hudson Village Theatre, 28 Rue Wharf, Hudson, Quebec, J0P 1H0, Canada
StoryFest welcomes multiple award-winning author Frances Itani to Hudson.

Expanding Our Poetic Range through Memory, Place, and the Senses
2019-10-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Photo credit: Cristina Plamadeala
This workshop is for poets of any level of experience who are seeking to expand the range of their subject matter. Limited to 12 participants.
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.
Workshops will consist of in-class writing exercises, weekly writing assignments, and time for participating poets to receive constructive feedback from their peers and the workshop leader. As a group, we will also perform close readings of works by a range of published writers that constellate around a series of themes selected to help us mine our own memories and sensory experiences of the world around us. Proposed themes include

a child’s-eye view: writing through the lens of childhood;
lost and found: orienting through poetry;
(re)mapping our world: a sense of place;
entering the myth: poetic exchanges with mythology; and
mapping the landscape of the body.

Participants will be encouraged, for the duration of the workshop, to “apprentice” themselves to the work of a published poet of their choice, whose voice will be a steady and nourishing guide as they work on their own material. They will also have the opportunity (though it is by no means obligatory) to read their own work aloud, both as a practice tool for giving future poetry readings and to “lend an ear” to the editing process. The workshop will be a safe and friendly space, with an emphasis on diving into the messiness of creation and getting excited about new ideas.

LLP Launch!
2019-10-09 19:00 - 21:00 | La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Bernard West, Montréal, Québec, H2T2K2, Canada
Linda Leith Publishing – Linda Leith Éditions is launching its fall lineup!
Wednesday, October 9, 7 pm
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 rue Bernard est
Come meet great writers and their magnificent books!

P O E T R Y N I T E
2019-10-09 19:00 - 22:00 | Chez Morrigan, 1221 Crescent St, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 2B1, Canada
Our first show back was … WOW! Seriously, this community – our talent – our love – our capacity to show up fully for ourselves and each other?!?! There is nothing like us, together. Come be part of it.
► DOORS @ 7 – READINGS @ 8
► READERS: we reserve up to eight spots before the show and after that it goes to open mic which is mostly first-come, first-served with priority to BIPOC folks. All artists/musicians welcome!!
► Show is $5 (tinyurl.com/y9w8j4pm)
► We want to foster a supportive, positive environment for everyone. That means no racism / sexism / ableism / homophobia / transphobia and a request that poets please give trigger warnings before your poems. If you have a concern please speak to the poet directly or to one of the hosts!
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► PORTES @ 7 – LECTURES @ 8
► LECTEURS: Nous acceptons jusqu’à huit inscriptions à l’avance, celles-ci vous garantissent un moment sur la scène. S’ensuit ensuite un micro ouvert sous la formule premier.ère arrivé.e, premier.ère servi.e avec une priorité pour les gens du BIPOC. Tous les artistes / musiciens sont les bienvenus !!
► Le spectacle coûte 5 $ (tinyurl.com/y9w8j4pm)
► Dans l’optique d’assurer un climat accueillant pour toustes, nous ne tolérerons auncun comportement et propos raciste, sexiste, homophobe, transphobe, ou s’inscrivant dans toute autre logique d’oppression systémique. Nous demandons aussi aux lecteur.trices de donner des avertissements de contenus (trigger warnings) avant leurs poèmes. Si un problème se fait sentir de ce côté, prière d’en faire part à l’artiste ou aux organisateur.trices.

The Very Short Story: Reading and Writing Fiction of 300 to 1000 Words
2019-10-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 1X4, Canada
All levels are welcome. Limited to 12 participants.
The very short story comes in many guises. Tale, fable, cronica, feuilleton, anecdote, aphorism, vignette, sketch, flash, prose poem, yarn, joke—each of these may fall into its fold, as may extra-literary forms such as lists or memos. Its main characteristic is brevity. Since it can be written relatively quickly, it offers a wonderful place for experimentation. Since each word, punctuation mark, and line of white space speaks, it demands precision and invites us to hone our writing skills.
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?
Drawing on class discussion, students will write their own stories as homework and bring them to class to share. We will read them together, but we will not focus on critique; our class will be about generating work, permission to try new things, and celebrating creativity. It will welcome new writers and those with experience. Participants should end the course with a portfolio of at least eight very short stories.
For our first class, please bring in a published work of fiction of about 300 to 500 words. Be prepared to read it aloud and say what you love about it.

Pre-Scintillation Speculative Reading Showcase
2019-10-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Argo Bookshop, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
For our fall speculative fiction showcase, a number of authors who are visiting our fair city for the Scintillation convention will be joining us to share their work in the store! Copies of their books will be available for sale and signing.
Our lineup:
Jo Walton has published fourteen novels, most recently Lent. She has also published three poetry collections, two essay collections and a short story collection. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002, the World Fantasy Award for Tooth and Claw in 2004, the Hugo and Nebula awards for Among Others in 2012, and in 2014 both the Tiptree Award for My Real Children and the Locus Non Fiction award for What Makes This Book So Great.
Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series (Tor Books) explores a future of borderless nations and globally commixing populations. The first volume Too Like the Lightning was a Best Novel Hugo finalist, and won the Compton Crook Award, while Ada received the Campbell Award.
Marissa Lingen has written short science fiction and fantasy stories for magazines and anthologies across the Anglophone world. Her work has been translated into seven languages. She has recently branched out into essays and poetry. Her short stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and many more.
Greer Gilman is the author of Cloud & Ashes and Moonrise, which won the Crawford Award and was shortlisted for the Tiptree and Mythopoeic Awards.
Karl Schroeder is a professional futurist as well as one of Canada’s most popular science fiction and fantasy authors. He divides his time between writing and conducting workshops and speaking on the potential impacts of science and technology on society. He is the author of Stealing Worlds and The Million, as well as a half-dozen previous SF novels.
Alison Sinclair is the author of Legacies, Blueheart and Cavalcade (nominated for the Arthur C Clarke award), as well as the Darkborn trilogy.

FIona Duncan Launches Exquisite Mariposa
2019-10-10 19:00 - 21:00 | La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Bernard West, Montréal, Québec, H2T2K2, Canada
Join us as we launch Fiona Alison Duncan’s debut novel, Exquisite Mariposa!
FIONA ALISON DUNCAN is a Canadian American artist, writer, and organizer. She’s the founding host of Hard to Read, a lit series, and Pillow Talk, community organizing on sex, love, and communication. She lives in New York and Los Angeles.
EXQUISITE MARIPOSA
In the aftermath of a reality TV deal gone wrong, Fiona Alison Duncan asks the question, Can you rewrite your life? The answer, her debut novel Exquisite Mariposa, follows a cast of housemates as they navigate questions of art making and economies, breakups and breakdowns, and the internet and its many obsessions.

Constance Beresford-Howe Tribute
2019-10-11 18:00 - 20:30 | St. Jax, 1439 St. Catherine street west, montreal, Quebec, H3G 1S6, Canada
You are invited to the unveiling of a commemorative plaque for novelist and academic Constance Beresford-Howe (1922-2016). A reception with wine and cheese will follow.
Now almost forgotten and seriously neglected by feminist scholarship, Constance Beresford-Howe was a truly ground-breaking forerunner to contemporary feminist activism. Born in 1922 in Montreal of a middle-class Anglophone family, she went on to earn a doctorate from Brown University in the United States and to join the English Department at McGill University in Montreal where, among other subjects, she pioneered in the teaching of creative writing. She scored a major coup when her first novel, The Invisible Gate is written in her early twenties, was published by a prestigious American publisher, Dodd Mead in 1949. She went on to publish a total of ten significant novels developing a strong voice on women’s issues at a time when the literary world, with a few exceptions, was the domain of male authors.

Death of Futurism
2019-10-11 19:30 - 23:00 | #204-170 Jean Talon O., Atlas Building, Little Italy Montreal, Quebec H2R 2X4, #204-170 Jean Talon O. Atlas Building, Montreal, QC, H2R 2X4, Canada
What is the place of literature in light of the current trajectory of globalized industrial “civilization”? Can writers move beyond traditional notions of the future and the oppressive systems of power that have formed them? Do literary mediums have the capacity to depict futures that may very well be unrecognizable to us? Is there a place for radical optimism within what can only be called an abysmal forecast?
What forms will an anti-futurist futurism take?
Join us for an evening of readings & performances by:
Melissa Bull
Paige Cooper
Dean Garlick
James Goddard
Kaie Kellough
*Suggested donation $5-$10 NOTAFLOF

Writing Picture Book Biographies: Going Down the Research Rabbit Hole
2019-10-12 10:00 - 13:00 | Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 1X4, Canada
All levels are welcome. Limited to 12 participants.
Thinking of jumping on the picture book biography bandwagon? Better yet, already have someone in mind to write about but don’t know where to start? Then, come down the research rabbit hole with Anne Renaud, as she shares the steps she takes to lift the veil on the lives of people—from birth to grave and everything in between.
This three-hour workshop will look at the different approaches in picture book biographies and provide answers to such questions as:

What biographical information should I leave in and what can I leave out?
How and where do I go to track down surviving family members? Newspaper clippings? Genealogical information? Photographs? Patents?
The back matter is no laughing matter; what do I include?
Do I need a research grant to write my book? If so, where do I go for grant money?
How and to whom should I pitch my manuscript?

Heure du conte avec Catherine Gaillard - Lancement: Moitié de poulet!
2019-10-13 11:00 - 12:00 | La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Bernard West, Montréal, Québec, H2T2K2, Canada
MOITIÉ DE POULET est un petit poulet chétif et déplumé qui parvient, avec ses amis, à déjouer l’abus de pouvoir. De passage à Montréal, la conteuse franco-suisse Catherine Gaillard présente sa première parution aux Éditions Planète rebelle.
CATHERINE GAILLARD parcourt les scènes d’ici et d’ailleurs pour raconter l’aventure humaine, ses conquêtes éclatantes, ses quêtes impossibles. Elle distribue aux quatre vents ses récits, au service d’une parole vibrante et libérée. Conteuse professionnelle depuis 1998, elle a une dizaine de spectacles à son actif, oeuvres originales contemporaines ou contes tirés de la tradition orale.

Breathing Space//Reprendre Son Souffle
2019-10-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Le Depanneur Cafe, 206 Rue Bernard O, Montreal, Quebec, H2T 2K4, Canada
A relaxed, lightly held space to share words, poems, prose, in any language. New work and collaborations, risk-taking and experimentation absolutely considered. Sometimes there’s a cello.
We have up to 12 readings spaces of 5 minutes per events. Some places are booked in advance, some are open on the day. Email breathingspace.mtl@gmail.com if you’re interested in reading.
Organized and hosted by Aaron Boothby and Rachel McCrum.
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Un espace détendu et léger pour partager des mots, des poèmes, de la prose dans n’importe quelle langue. Nouvelles écritures et collaborations, prises de risque et expérimentations sont absolument les bienvenues. Parfois, il y a du violoncelle.
Nous avons jusqu’à 12 places pour des lectures de 5 minutes par événement. Certaines sont réservées à l’avance, d’autres sont ouvertes le jour même. Envoyez un courriel à breathingspace.mtl@gmail.com si vous êtes intéressé.e.s à lire.
Organisé et animé par Aaron Boothby et Rachel McCrum.

Inanna & Guernica Authors Read & Sign at Argo
2019-10-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Argo Bookshop, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Inanna & Guernica Authors Read & Sign at Argo
Marianne Ackerman, Ilona Martonfi, Louise Dupré,
H. Nigel Thomas, Milton Dawes (African Drum),
Carolyne Van Der Meer, Mike Di Sclafani,
Maria Caltabiano, Jonathan Kaplansky
Argo Bookshop 1915 Ste. Catherine St. West
https://www.argobookshop.ca/
Artistic Director Ilona Martonfi ilona.martonfi@sympatico.ca
Hosted with Mike Di Sclafani
An Evening of Verse, Prose & Song
Thursday, December 5, 2019
7 PM-9 PM at the door $6
FACEBOOK EVENT
Dec 5
THU
Inanna & Guernica Authors Read & Sign at Argo

WORDPLAY A writing workshop in celebration of creativity and wonder
2019-10-15 06:00 - 20:00 | Atelier d’Art Meteque, 5442 Cote Saint Luc Road, NDG, QC, H3X2C5, Canada
In a time of busy schedules, and places to be and people to see, it can be hard to find the time to simply play. WORDPLAY is a writing play group, a time in your week reserved for you — a time to connect with the wonder that lies at the heart of words and where they can take us.
For a period of six weeks we will meet for two hours of writing projects and prompts designed to welcome the unexpected, the spontaneous, and the serendipitous, culminating in an evening of readings on the last night.
Whether you are a poet, a fiction or non-fiction writer, an aspiring writer, a musician or a visual or performance artist, or simply someone who loves the joy of words, or even scrabble, boggle or crossword puzzles, this is an opportunity to entertain what it means to revel, gambol and cut loose with language.
Workshop leader: Carolyn Boll
A trained dancer, and recipient of several Canada Council and Quebec multi-media and choreography grants, author Carolyn Boll is a graduate of The Humber School for Writers. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Lavender Review, The Gay & Lesbian Review, and Mayday Magazine, and her non-fiction writing has appeared in The Dance Current and The Montreal Gazette. Her first book, a playful partnering between poetry, image and dance, is called Social Dance A Book of Ballroom Poetry and was published by Sally Jane Books, the specialty imprint of indie publisher Headmistress Press.

Louise Carson Book Launch
2019-10-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Twigs Cafe, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada
Broken Rules Press launches Louise Carson’s Measured: Book Two of The Chronicles of Deasil Widdy.
