Quebec Writers' Federation

Copy Yourself: An Intro to Zine Making
2020-02-25 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Atwater Library Auditorium, 1200 Atwater Avenue, 2nd floor, Westmount, QC
A zine is a small photocopied personal publication, each as unique as the person who made it!
Using collage, writing, and drawing, participants will make their own ready-to-copy 8-page zine. Bring along your fave art supplies (pens, pencils, markers, rubber stamps) and a magazine to cut up and share; if you don’t happen to have some of your own, don’t worry — supplies will also be available at the workshop.
Billy Mavreas lives in Montreal, Quebec where he creates comics, collage, drawings and visual poetry. He operates an art studio and archive of found paper ephemera out of his gallery space Monastiraki in the Mile-End neighbourhood. He has published, exhibited, and collaborated widely.
This workshop is FREE but space is limited. To register: elise.m@videotron.ca.
Where: Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 1X4
This event is taking place on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka.
Generously supported by the Community Cultural Action Fund (CCAF) of the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Visual Arts Centre Reading Series
2020-02-25 19:30 - 21:30 | Visual Arts Centre, 350 Avenue Victoria, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 2N4, Canada
Visual Arts Centre Reading Series Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Susan Elmslie, Zoe Shaw, Susan Doherty, Harold Hoefle, Larissa Andrusyshyn, Jeff Gandell (music), R.M. Cutler,
Ann Lambert, Mike Di Sclafani, Ilona Martonfi
350 Victoria Avenue, Westmount www.visualartscentre.ca
Artistic director Ilona Martonfi ilona.martonfi@sympatico.ca
Co-hosted with Mike Di Sclafani
Doors 7 PM Readings 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM At the door $6
An Evening of Poetry & Prose & Music

New Reads Book Club: Frying Plantain
2020-02-26 19:00 - 21:00 | La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Bernard West, Montréal, Québec, H2T2K2, Canada
The New Reads Book Club focuses on contemporary literature and is hosted by Drawn and Quarterly staff members. The book club meetings take place every 4-6 weeks, and are open to all.
For our February 26th meeting, we will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Bernard O.) at 7 pm to discuss Frying Plantain, by Zalika Reid-Benta. The evening will be hosted by Drawn & Quarterly’s Bookstore Director Rebecca Lloyd!
Join us for discussion and drinks!
**We offer a 20% discount on FRYING PLANTAIN by Zalika Reid-Benta from now until the meeting date.**
By purchasing your book at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly you help support free events like this one, independent publishing and retailing, our neighborhood, and authors both local and from around the world who depend on independent bookstores for their livelihood. You also get to take advantage of a great discount! Your support is appreciated.
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FRYING PLANTAIN
Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “true” Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother’s rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too “faas” or too “quiet” or too “bold” or too “soft.” Set in “Little Jamaica,” Toronto’s Eglinton West neighbourhood, Kara moves from girlhood to the threshold of adulthood, from elementary school to high school graduation, in these twelve interconnected stories. We see her on a visit to Jamaica, startled by the sight of a severed pig’s head in her great aunt’s freezer; in junior high, the victim of a devastating prank by her closest friends; and as a teenager in and out of her grandmother’s house, trying to cope with the ongoing battles between her unyielding grandparents.
A rich and unforgettable portrait of growing up between worlds, Frying Plantain shows how, in one charged moment, friendship and love can turn to enmity and hate, well-meaning protection can become control, and teasing play can turn to something much darker. In her brilliantly incisive debut, Zalika Reid-Benta artfully depicts the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation Canadians and first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity and predominately white society.

Poetry w/ Sarah Wolfson, James Crews, Kasia Juno, Laura Zacharin
2020-02-27 19:00 - 21:00 | La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Bernard West, Montréal, Québec, H2T2K2, Canada
Join us Thursday, February 27th as we welcome Sarah Wolfson, and Laura Zacharin for the launch of their latest and an evening of poetry readings with guests James Crews and Kasia Juno at La Petite Drawn & Quarterly!
The poems in A COMMON NAME FOR EVERYTHING are concerned primarily with the holiness of rural spaces. They build idiosyncratic worlds around the themes of nature, home, parenting, and naming. They can be both poignant and absurd: a professional namer of lakes explains his standards; new mothers are given gifts of mammoths; the rural gods are given names; a study of sheep results in loneliness. In the places these poems build, wandering is a state of being, and nostalgia for home has no balm. Steeped in sound play and borrowing academic language to create a specimen lens, these poems bask in the local as they seek to name even the commonest earthly things.
In COMMON BROWN HOUSE MOTHS, poems step back from the hurry, blur and ordinariness to take a closer look at the the hazards of daily life . From her work as a doctor and everyday family life, first time author, Laura Zacharin considers themes of memory, change, Illness, recovery and loss. A variety of poetic forms, uses energy of these forms to engage with encounter and experience. Sometimes with humour, always with stark honesty, and often indirectly, Zacharin uses ordinary language for clarity and immediacy in this elegant and imagistic collection rife with emotional pull.
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SARAH WOLFSON is the author of the poetry collection A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press). Her poems have appeared in Canadian and American journals including The Fiddlehead, TriQuarterly, PRISM international, CV2, AGNI, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was named a notable poem in Best Canadian Poetry 2019. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. Originally from Vermont, she now lives in Montreal, where she teaches writing at McGill University.
Originally from Montreal LAURA ZACHARIN currently lives in Toronto. In 2018 Laura completed her Creative Writing Certificate at University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies and received the Marina Nemat Poetry Award. She was a finalist in 2018 for The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Poetry Contest. In 2017 she attended the Emerging Writer’s Intensive at the Banff Centre. Her poetry has appeared in The Fiddlehead, CV2, The Malahat Review and Juniper. Her first book Common Brown House Moths was published in September 2019 (Frontenac House).
JAMES CREWS is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, including The Book of What Stays, winner of the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize, and Telling My Father, winner of the 2017 Cowles Prize. He is also editor of several anthologies: Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection, published by Green Writers Press and chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as her monthly book selection for the Poetry Foundation, and Queer Nature: An Ecopoetry Anthology, forthcoming from Autumn House Press in 2021. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, New York Times Magazine, Crab Orchard Review and The New Republic, among dozens of other journals, and he is a regular contributor to The (London) Times Literary Supplement. He lives on part of an organic farm with his husband in Vermont and teaches creative writing at SUNY-Albany.
KASIA VAN SCHAIK is the author of the poetry chapbook Sea Burial Laws According to Country (Desert Pets Press, 2018) and her writing has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry Anthology (2015), Electric Literature, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, Prism International, Jacket2, and more. Kasia received the Quebec Writer’s Federation Short Story Prize (2009) and was a finalist for the CBC Short Story Prize (2017). She lives in Montreal where she is completing a PhD at McGill University.
Find her at @kasiajuno or at www.kasiajuno.weebly.com

SpeakUp
2020-02-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Cafe Shaika, 5526 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, H4A 1W2, Canada
GRATUITE
SpeakUp: L’Échange Interactif de Poésie de Montréal
Poètes : Robyn Sarah, Mark Plourde, Peter Richardson
AVEC SPEAKUP, LE PUBLIC EST ENGAGÉ
Toutes les personnes présentes reçoivent une copie du poème
La poète lit le poème, suivi de 15 à 20 minutes de discussion
Le poète lit le poème une dernière fois
Amenez un ami et recevez un livre gratuit!
Visitez notre page Facebook pour plus de détails.
FREE EVENT
SpeakUp: The Montreal Inter-Active Poetry Exchange
Poets: Robyn Sarah, Mark Plourde, Peter Richardson
A POETRY READING WITH A DIFFERENCE: AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT
Each audience member receives a copy of the poems
Poet reads poems, followed by 15 to 20-minute discussion on the poem
Poet reads poem a final time
Bring a friend and receive a free book!
Visit our Facebook page for more details.

Unravelling in Rhymes: Dreaming in Verses
2020-02-28 17:00 - 19:00 | The Open Centre, 5165 Sherbrooke W., suite 300, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Unravelling in Rhymes is a FREE creative writing workshop where we invite people of colour who identify as women, trans, gender nonconforming, 2-spirit and non-binary, ages 17-30 years old, to come together in a safe(r), non-judgmental and supportive space and share an afternoon of writing and sharing.
In past workshops we have found that this space is more one of healing, sharing our stories (sometimes for the first time), and connecting with other people of colour and creating community, more than it is about the writing we create.
Date: Friday, February 28
Time: 5 – 7 PM
Location: The Open Centre/Plaza Vendome (5165 Sherbrooke W., suite 300). Short walk from Vendome metro.
Free!
Refreshments provided
Please register for this workshop by providing a name and contact on the link below (Spaces are limited):
https://forms.gle/9gofFd4Fjo2bqD3u6
Participants are invited to participate in the ways and amounts they feel most comfortable. Previous poetry-writing and performing experience is not necessary!
Workshop Description:
Can dreams prompt our creative writing process? Can we write using the same language/structures that our dream brain uses to tell us stories while we sleep? This is poetry meets Inception! By use of various writing exercises, including free-writing and visualization, we will try to tap into our subconscious and dip our feet in a waking “dream world”, and allow its imagery and emotions to guide our writing. The workshop is designed to be accommodating of different comfort levels, providing different options and variations for each prompt/activity.
Facilitator: HAR LEEN (Harleen Bhogal)
Born in Montreal, HAR LEEN is a South Asian writer, artist and educator, whose practice is entrenched in feminist and anti-racist principles and community-building approaches. As an educator, she uses arts-based approaches, ranging from visual arts to spoken word, to facilitate grassroots youth programming. HAR LEEN understands that artistic self-expression in safe and loving settings can become a catalyst for collective healing and inducing transformative change, and is dedicated to creating these spaces in her community.

Teen Book Club: Hot Comb
2020-02-28 18:00 - 20:00 | La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Bernard West, Montréal, Québec, H2T2K2, Canada
Join us on Friday February 28th at 6 pm to discuss Ebony Flowers’ graphic novel Hot Comb at our Teen Book Club. Pizza will be served. All attendees must have the assigned book, or one book in the assigned series.
This is a book club for teenagers, with a median age of 13-16 or grades sec 1-5–all kids must be in secondary school. There will be a different book every meeting. The focus is to provide teenagers a safe space to learn to discuss and express thoughts and ideas about literature among their peers without parents or teachers.
***We are offering a 20% discount on HOT COMB from now until the meeting date!***
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women’s lives and coming-of-age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm—a doomed ploy to look cool and stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved into. In “Virgin Hair,” taunts of “tender-headed” sting as much as the perm itself. “My Lil Sister Lena” shows the stress of being the only black player on a white softball team. Lena’s hair is the team curio, an object to be touched, a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates, leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Throughout Hot Comb, Ebony Flowers re-creates classic magazine ads idealizing women’s need for hair relaxers and products. “Change your hair form to fit your life form” and “Kinks and Koils Forever” call customers from the page.
Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through these stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking. Flowers began drawing comics while earning her Ph.D., and her early mastery of sequential storytelling is nothing short of sublime. Hot Comb is a propitious display of talent from a new cartoonist who has already made her mark.

Shut Up & Write! with QWF
2020-02-29 10:00 - 12:30 | Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Looking for some dedicated, quiet writing space?
Register below to do all that writing you’ve been meaning to do at the Atwater Library. Using the Pomodoro technique, participants write in 25 minute bursts, with 5 minutes break in between.
This event is for QWF members only. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member.
Please note that these sessions are designed for silent writing, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work.

10:00 – 10:25 – Writing 1
10:25 – 10:30 – Break
10:30 – 10:55 – Writing 2
10:55 – 11:00 – Break
11:00 – 11:25 – Writing 3
11:25 – 11:30 – Break
11:30 – 11:55 – Writing 4
11:55 – 12:00 – Break
12:00 – 12:25 – Writing 5

Note: QWF Members, you must be logged in to your Member Account in order to check event availability and to access the RSVP form on this page. If you are having any issues with the RSVP form, please email workshops(at)qwf(dot)org and someone will be happy to help you.

Book Launch: Sex Work Activism in Canada
2020-03-03 19:30 - 21:00 | La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Bernard West, Montréal, Québec, H2T2K2, Canada
À l’occasion de cette Journée internationale des droits des travailleuses et travailleurs du sexe, nous organisons le lancement du livre de Amy Lebovitch et Shawna Ferris, Sex Work Activism in Canada. Notre chapitre « Stella, l’amie de Maimie: créer un espace pour les travailleuses » rassemble certaines de nos réflexions de ces 25 dernières années. Nous sommes fières de l’espace que nous partageons dans le livre avec d’autres groupes incroyables pour la défense des droits des travailleuses du sexe. Une des éditrices, Shawna Ferris, va prends la parole avec d’autres invitées.
Cet événement sera principalement en anglais. Traduction chuchotée disponible.
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On this International Sex Workers’ Rights Day we are hosting the launch of the hot off the press book by Editors Amy Lebovitch and Shawna Ferris, Sex Work Activism in Canada. Our chapter “Stella, l’amie de Maimie: Creating a Space for Working Women” is a snapshot on some of our reflections and organizing over the past 25 years. We are proud to share space in the book with other amazing sex worker rights groups. One of the editors of the book, Shawna Ferris, will be speaking, along with other special guests.
This event will mainly be in English. Whisper translation provided.

Indie Author Café - Learn about Self-Publishing
2020-03-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Cafe Shaika, 5526 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, H4A 1W2, Canada
The indie author café is an event organized by to provide aspiring and published authors a place to meet, share ideas, learn from trade professionals and discover the ins and outs of self-publishing.
Our next indie author café will be held in Montreal on Thursday, March 5th (from 5 to 7 PM).
It’s a great opportunity to shake off the winter chills, join fellow authors and publishing professionals as we talk about self-publishing, all in the cozy setting of NDG’s Shaïka Café.
All are welcome!
Free and open to the public; please RSVP by following the website link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/indie-author-cafe-tickets-94219425839

Argo Reading Series : Verse, Prose & Song
2020-03-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Argo Bookshop, 1915 Ste. Catherine Ouest, Montreal, Quebec H3H 1M3, Montreal, Canada
Argo Reading Series : Verse, Prose & Song
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Blossom Thom, Zsolt Alapi, Salena Wiener, Matthew Rettino, Hugh Thomas,
Marie-Josée MJ Tremblay (music), Mark Paterson, Ilona Martonfi,
Mike Di Sclafani, Marie Dupuis, Sheryl Halpern
Argo Bookshop 1915 Ste. Catherine St. West
https://www.argobookshop.ca/ Hosted with Moti Lieberman
Artistic Director Ilona Martonfi ilona.martonfi@sympatico.ca
7 PM-9 PM at the door $6

Épique Voices: Bilingual Poetry Show
2020-03-09 08:00 - 23:00 | La Vitrola, 4602 boul St. Laurent, Montreal, QC, Canada
Un classique du festival Dans ta tête depuis maintenant 6 ans, the best poetry you’ll hear from the poetic Montreal you love!
Curated by Katherine McLeod and Catherine Cormier-Larose
With:
Hélène Bughin
Nadia Chaney
Klara du Plessis
Emmanuelle Gauthier (Pierrot La Lune)
Kama La Mackerel
Alexei Perry Cox
Maude Pilon & Simon Brown
Melanie Power
Hector Ruiz
Alisha Dukelow
Erika Soucy
Kasia Van Schaik
Music: Quique, guitare et impro
Un peu de flamenco improvisé: Katherine McLeod

QWF Workshop - Love and Intimacy in Fiction: Setting the Scene
2020-03-09 18:00 - 20:00, 2020-03-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 1X4, Canada
“One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.”
– Alice Munro
All levels are welcome. Limited to 12 participants.

Are your characters stuck at first base? Maybe you’ve been trying for months to create tasteful romantic tension, but your revisions seem to be getting tawdrier instead. Love and sex in fiction are challenging to write: We’re striving to find the perfect chemistry between voice, language, pacing, plot, and setting, and the measurement of each is never the same from one situation to the next. Just as it takes time in real life for intimacy to grow between people, it takes more than a few lines in a short story or pages in a novel to develop genuine narrative intimacy.
This workshop will provide participants with creative and technical tools to write anything from smoldering eye contact between strangers on a subway to harrowing mid-novel breakup sex between critical characters. We’ll look at a variety of print and digital media, and everyone will be encouraged to act as a reader as well as a writer—that is, to share ideas and offer constructive feedback. Participants will leave the workshop with an expanded, specialized lexicon and the confidence to know when to be nuanced in their writing and when to be explicit.
This workshop is not a genre “how-to” for romance or erotica, but a fun, holistic survey of tools and techniques writers can use to craft believable and compelling intimacy in any fictional context.

QWF Workshop - From Idea to Script to Screen
2020-03-09 20:00 - 22:00, 2020-03-16 20:00 - 22:00 | Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Photo by Sabrina Reeves
12 participants.

This workshop will help you adapt your ideas into scripts for TV, Film, Video, Web series, etc., and also show you how to craft pitches and other creative documents designed to attract producers and broadcasters to your material. In addition, you will receive advice as to which avenues to venture down in terms of seeking potential funding and/or professional representation and/or producing partners for your projects.

Topics covered will include:

Setting realistic writing goals; how to break down and analyze a script; the importance of feedback; analysis of produced work; story, structure, conflict, character, dialogue; the importance of rewriting and how to go about it; pitching; riders, indemnity waivers, non-disclosure agreements; contracts, agents, lawyers; development funding; and budgeting (time & money).

Recommended reading: film scripts of all genres and lengths

March in the Beauty: An evening of prose, poetry, and music
2020-03-09 20:00 - 23:00 | Café Résonance, 5175A Park Ave, Montreal, Quebec, H2V 4G3, Canada
Please join Sharon Lax, BA Markus, Deanna Radford, Cora Sire, Sivan Slapak, and Su J Sokol as they read from their prose and poetry. Special guest musicians TBA.
SHARON LAX’s short story collection, Shattered Fossils, launches on May 2nd. Her work has been published in various Canadian journals and longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize.
B.A. MARKUS’s creative non-fiction stories appear in magazines and anthologies across Canada. Her play, “The What Mommy Needs Cabaret,” will premiere at the 2020 Festival St. Ambroise Fringe.
DEANNA RADFORD is a writer, poet, performer, curator, editor, and organizer, and a member of Cloud Circuit, an experimental poetry and sounds ensemble.
CORA SIRÉ is the author of two novels and a collection of poems. Her work has appeared in magazines and anthologies in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.
SIVAN SLAPAK works in Montreal’s arts and culture sector, and towards finishing a collection of interlinked short stories. Some can already be found in The New Quarterly, carte blanche and Montreal Serai.
SU J SOKOL is author of two novels, Cycling to Asylum, longlisted for the Sunburst Award, and Run J Run. Her short stories have been published and podcast in various magazines.

QWF Workshop - Inventing the Truth: The Art of Personal Writing
2020-03-10 20:00 - 22:00, 2020-03-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Registration for this workshop is TBA!

QWF Workshop - Writing Long: The Novel
2020-03-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 1X4, Canada

Meet the author : David Homel
2020-03-11 19:00 | Bibliothèque de Pierrefonds, 13 555 Boulevard de Pierrefonds, Pierrefonds, Qc, Pierrefonds-Roxboro, Olivia, H9A 1A6, Canada
With his eight novel The Teardown under his belt, the writer, journalist and translator David Homel will be talking about the writing profession and the Quebec modern literary scene.

Graphic Novel Book Club: This Woman's Work
2020-03-11 19:00 - 21:00 | La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Bernard West, Montréal, Québec, H2T2K2, Canada
Each month we host a Graphic Novel Book Club, open to all, during which we hang out and informally discuss a featured graphic novel. Our pick for February is THIS WOMAN’S WORK by Julie Delporte.
We will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Rue Bernard Ouest) on Thursday, February 13th at 7 p.m. Join us for refreshments and collective insights!
***We are offering a 20% discount on THIS WOMAN’S WORK from now until the meeting date!***
By purchasing your book at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly you help support free events like this one, independent publishing and retailing, our neighborhood, and authors both local and from around the world who depend on independent bookstores for their livelihood. You also get to take advantage of a great discount! Your support is appreciated.

QWF Workshop - The Writer’s Tune-Up: Create with Courage
2020-03-11 20:00 - 22:00 | Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 1X4, Canada
For all those looking for a practical, hands-on workshop of generative prompts to get your wheels turning, your creative engine humming, and new projects out of the blocks.

Teesri Duniya Theatre’s Counter Offence
2020-03-11 20:00 - 2020-03-30 20:00 | Quebec
COUNTER OFFENCE
Written by Rahul Varma Directed by Arianna Bardesono
Wednesday, March 11– Sunday, March 29, 2020
In counterpoint, domestic violence and racism blur, distorting the issues while officials satisfy their own agendas. Continuing their mandate to encourage dialogue, the company will hold post-show talkbacks on March 16, 22, 24 and 29. An evolving, interactive installation of visual art will be in the lobby complementing the production. Mature content—ages 13+.
Counter Offence is a collision of virtues. Shazia, an Indo-Québecoise woman with traditional Muslim parents, is in an abusive relationship with her husband Shapoor, an Iranian facing immigration issues. What happens when the fight against racism comes into conflict with the struggle to end violence against women? Working backwards through flashbacks, the intersection of the two is explored. The consequences of gender versus race force us to question our own prejudices and motivations.
Reflecting the streets of Montreal, the talented, culturally diverse cast is Maureen Adelson, Amena Ahmad, Michael Briganti, Davide Chiazzese, Alida Esmail, Minoo Gundevia, Amir Sám Nakhjavani and Arun Varma.
From playwright Rahul Varma: “Whenever I spoke to peers about the play’s themes, their usual comment was: ‘This happens a lot in your community, doesn’t it?’ From what I knew, yes it did. But I was surprised they didn’t ask the same question of themselves. According to available statistics and cultural evidence, domestic violence occurs in the white community just as it does in the South Asian community, and perhaps more often. I was perturbed by the dichotomy that Canadians perceive spousal abuse as a crime if the perpetrator is a white male, but a cultural value if he is a person of colour. Throughout the writing process I was confronted with issues of race, multiculturalism and gender. I struggled with how far a multicultural society and its laws tolerate cultural differences that could have coercive effects on women; a complicated issue which posed new questions.”
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Teesri Duniya Theatre’s Counter Offence
March 11-29
at Segal Centre for Performing Arts, 5170 Côte-Ste-Catherine Rd.
The show runs: Mon.-Sun. 8pm—NO SHOW ON FRIDAYS—plus Sundays & Tues. Mar. 24 at 2pm
Tickets: $25-$29; Monday night promotion—50%* off the second ticket (*by phone/door only)
514 739-7944 or online at Segal Centre
Pay-It-Forward: Purchase a Counter Offence ‘suspended ticket’ which goes directly to a member of a community organization, giving the gift of theatre to someone who cannot otherwise afford it.
www.teesriduniyatheatre.com
www.facebook.com/events/218818525670152/

QWF Workshop - Poetry Workshop: Tentacular Thinking & Writing
2020-03-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 1X4, Canada

QWF Workshop - Narrative Non-fiction: Creating Scenes
2020-03-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Atwater Library and Computer Centre, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 1X4, Canada
This workshop is open to writers who have already taken a writing workshop or published at least one short piece of prose fiction or non-fiction. Limited to 12 participants.

Young Readers Book Club: Blended by Sharon M. Draper
2020-03-13 18:00 - 20:00 | La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Bernard West, Montréal, Québec, H2T2K2, Canada
Join us at la Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly for our Young Readers book club, hosted by Molie! This month’s pick is the novel Blended by Sharon M. Draper. Pizza will be served. All attendees must have the assigned book, or one book in the assigned series.
This is a book club for young readers, with a median age of 10-12 or fifth, sixth and sec 1 grades. Younger kids are welcome if the book is appropriate, but not younger than 8-9, please. There will be a different book every meeting. The focus is to provide tweens a safe space to learn to discuss and express thoughts and ideas about literature among their peers without parents or teachers. Please note we do not have the space to have parents and kids!

True Reads Book Club: The Crying Book
2020-03-16 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 February meeting, we’ll be reading THE CRYING BOOK by Heather Christle. The book club will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Bernard Ouest at 7pm. This month’s meeting is hosted by Drawn & Quarterly Marketing Director Julia Pohl-Miranda. Join us for discussion and drinks!

Indigenous Literatures Book Club: Islands of Decolonial Love
2020-03-17 19:00 - 21:00 | La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Bernard West, Montréal, Québec, H2T2K2, Canada
The Indigenous Literatures Book Club focuses on work by indigenous writers from around the world. Hosted by Tara McGowan-Ross, a Mi’kmaq multidisciplinary artist and writer, the meetings will take place every 4-6 weeks and are open to all.
For our March meeting, we will gather at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Bernard O.) at 7 pm to discuss ISLANDS OF DECOLONIAL LOVE by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

Accent Open Mic Vol. 27 - carte blanche Launch!
2020-03-17 20:30 - 23:30 | La Marche à côté, 5043 St-Denis, Montreal, Quebec, H2J 2L8, Canada
Lecteur.e.s invité.e.s: Louise Carson, Emilie Kneifel, Nathan Elliott, Anna Kim, Sivan Slapak
Accent Open Mic est une série de poésie bilingue qui se déroule à «La Marche à Côte» les 1er et 3ème mardis du mois. Chaque soirée propose des lectures approfondies d’un.e poète.sse anglophone et d’un.e poète.sse francophone, entrecoupées de lecteurs à micro ouvert.
L’inscription commence pour le micro ouvert à 20h00 et le spectacle commence à 20h30.
Accent Open Mic is a series of bilingual poetry that takes place at “La Marche à Côte” on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month. Each evening offers in-depth readings of an English poet and a French poet, interspersed with open-mic readers.
Registration begins for the open mic at 8pm and the show starts at 8:30pm.
