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SUMMARY:Words & Music's 20th Anniversary Bash!
DESCRIPTION:On Friday November 1st the Words &Music Show moves to the Sala Rossa to celebrate 20 years of bringing you the best in spoken word and music. Featuring the amazing Alvaro Echanove channeling Leonard Cohen\, spoken word and poetry by Fortner Anderson\, Oana Avasilichioaei\, River Halen Guri\, John Arthur Sweet and Kim Zombik’s amazing collaboration\, Silvervest. It all takes place at the Sala Rossa 4848 St-Laurent Friday November 1st doors 8PM show 9PM tickets are $9 or PWYC
URL:https://qwf.org/event/words-musics-20th-anniversary-bash/
LOCATION:La Sala Rossa\, 4848 St. Laurent Boulevard\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 2R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance,Series,Storytelling,Words and Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191101T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191101T200000
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SUMMARY:Book launch: Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante
DESCRIPTION:Montreal\, please join author Hazel Jane Plante for the launch of her debut novel ▼Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)▲ \n*with special guest Helen Chau Bradley* \nZoey Leigh Peterson\, author of Next Year\, For Sure\, calls Little Blue Encyclopedia “an exquisite\, kaleidoscopic novel bursting with ache and delight.” \nLITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sifts through a queer trans woman’s unrequited love for her straight trans friend who died. A queer love letter steeped in desire\, grief\, and delight\, the story is interspersed with encyclopedia entries about a fictional TV show set on an isolated island. The experimental form functions at once as a manual for how pop culture can help soothe and mend us and as an exploration of oft-overlooked sources of pleasure\, including karaoke\, birding\, and butt toys. Ultimately\, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) reveals with glorious detail and emotional nuance the woman the narrator loved\, why she loved her\, and the depths of what she has lost.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-little-blue-encyclopedia-for-vivian-by-hazel-jane-plante/
LOCATION:L’Euguélionne Bookstore\, 1426 Rue Beaudry\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2L 3E5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191031T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191031T220000
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SUMMARY:Urgency\, Dread\, Risk: A Short-Fiction Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Adam Michiels\nThis workshop is intended for fiction writers who have written short stories before\, and who have experience with the workshop environment. Limited to 12 participants. \nWe’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. \nParticipants 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. \nReadings will include Namwali Serpell\, Jamel Brinkley\, Casey Plett\, Carys Davis\, Octavia Butler\, and Ottessa Moshfegh\, among others.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/urgency-dread-risk-a-short-fiction-workshop/2019-10-31/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191031T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191031T210000
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SUMMARY:SpeakUp
DESCRIPTION:FREE\nSpeakUp: Interactive Poetry Exchange of Montreal\nPoets: Peter Richardson\, Claire Sherwood\, Michael Primiani. \nPOETRY READING WITH A DIFFERENCE: AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT\nEach audience member receives a copy of the poem\nPoet reads poem\, followed by 15-20 minute discussion on the poem\nPoet reads poem a final time \nBring a friend and get a book!\nVisit our Facebook page for details and other events. \n* \nGRATUITE\nSpeakUp: L’Échange Interactif de Poésie de Montréal\nPoètes: Peter Richardson\, Claire Sherwood\, Michael Primiani. \nAVEC SPEAKUP\, LE PUBLIC EST ENGAGÉ\nToutes les personnes présentes reçoivent une copie du poème\nLa poète lit le poème\, suivi de 15-20 minutes de discussion\nLe poète lit le poème une dernière fois \nAmenez un ami et obtenez un livre!\nVisitez notre page Facebook pour plus de détails et d’autres événements. \n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/speakup-3-2019-10-31/
LOCATION:Cafe Shaika\, 5526 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4A 1W2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Community Events,Performance,Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191031T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191031T200000
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SUMMARY:The Very Short Story: Reading and Writing Fiction of 300 to 1000 Words
DESCRIPTION:All levels are welcome. Limited to 12 participants. \nThe 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. \nIn 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? \nDrawing 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. \nFor 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.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-very-short-story-reading-and-writing-fiction-of-300-to-1000-words/2019-10-31/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T220000
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SUMMARY:Everything Happens at Once: Your Page One
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Marina Vulicevic\nThis workshop is intended for people interested in short- and long-form fiction who have begun puzzling out the beginnings of their stories. Limited to 12 participants. \nIn 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. \nThe “everything at once” approach means putting all the narrative elements into play simultaneously. Setting speaks for character\, dialogue speaks for plot\, the description of place speaks for the theme. All intertwined\, not consecutive. Everything at once\, like when you meet someone in real life\, even if it takes time to understand what you first thought you knew. \nWe’ll look at the beginning page of works of fiction to see how others have handled their beginnings. That revolver on the dining room table – does it really have to go off\, and who or what will be the target? When Dante admits in Sentence One\, “Halfway through the journey of my life\, I found myself lost in a forest dark\,” what sort of darkness is this\, and why is he telling us about it? The issue of who is talking to us\, and why\, will be essential to our Page Ones. \nThe object is to become more self-aware from the beginning\, without turning into hyper-planners intent on deleting all spontaneity. The Page One approach is one of the antidotes to the anxieties of the beginning writer\, since it stresses action: moving quickly\, getting the elements in play\, foreseeing eventual themes\, helping answer the question\, “Why does this story exist\, and where is it going?” \nOften the beginnings of stories wonder about their own existence. Tom O’Brien’s The Things They Carried meditates on the difficulty of telling a true war story. How can you tell if a war story is true? What is a war story anyway? Whom can we trust? This Page-One questioning launches the book.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/everything-happens-at-once-your-page-one/2019-10-30/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T220000
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SUMMARY:Cherie Dimaline launches Empire of Wild
DESCRIPTION:Librairie Drawn & Quarterly presents: \nCherie Dimaline launches EMPIRE OF WILD \nAbout the book:\nFrom the author of the YA-crossover hit THE MARROW THIEVES\, a propulsive\, stunning and sensuous novel inspired by the traditional Métis story of the Rogarou–a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of Métis communities. A messed-up\, grown-up\, Little Red Riding Hood.Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband\, Victor\, for almost a year–ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One terrible\, hungover morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town near Georgian Bay\, she is drawn to a revival tent where the local Métis have been flocking to hear a charismatic preacher named Eugene Wolff. By the time she staggers into the tent\, the service is over. But as she is about to leave\, she hears an unmistakable voice. \nShe turns\, and there Victor is. The same face\, the same eyes\, the same hands. But his hair is short and he’s wearing a suit and he doesn’t recognize her at all. No\, he insists\, she’s the one suffering a delusion: he’s the Reverend Wolff and his only mission is to bring his people to Jesus. Except that\, as Joan soon discovers\, that’s not all the enigmatic Wolff is doing. \nWith only the help of Ajean\, a foul-mouthed euchre shark with a knowledge of the old ways\, and her odd\, Johnny-Cash-loving\, 12-year-old nephew Zeus\, Joan has to find a way to remind the Reverend Wolff of who he really is. If he really is Victor. Her life\, and the life of everyone she loves\, depends upon it. \nAbout the Author:\nCHERIE DIMALINE’s young adult novel THE MARROW THIEVES shot to the top of the bestseller lists when it was published in 2017\, and stayed there for more than a year. It won the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Kirkus Prize in the young adult literature category\, the Burt Award for First Nations\, Métis and Inuit Literature\, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and\, among other honours\, was a fan favourite in the 2018 edition of CBC’s Canada Reads. It was also a Book of Year on numerous lists including the National Public Radio\, the School Library Journal\, the New York Public Library\, the Globe and Mail\, Quill & Quire and the CBC. Cherie was named Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts in 2014\, and became the first Indigenous writer in residence at the Toronto Public Library. From the Georgian Bay Métis Community in Ontario\, she now lives in Toronto.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/cherie-dimaline-launches-empire-of-wild/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T220000
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CREATED:20190806T163543Z
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SUMMARY:P O E T R Y N I T E
DESCRIPTION: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. \n► DOORS @ 7 – READINGS @ 8 \n► 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!! \n► Show is $5 (tinyurl.com/y9w8j4pm) \n► 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! \n——- \n► PORTES @ 7 – LECTURES @ 8 \n► 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 !! \n► Le spectacle coûte 5 $ (tinyurl.com/y9w8j4pm) \n► 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.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/p-o-e-t-r-y-n-i-t-e/2019-10-30/
LOCATION:Chez Morrigan\, 1221 Crescent St\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Open Mic,Performance,Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T210000
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SUMMARY:Ariela Freedman - Book Club with the Author
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the latest iteration of our Book Club with the Author\, where a local Montreal author joins us to discuss their book! This time\, we’ll be discussing A Joy to be Hidden by author Ariela Freedman. As with all our book clubs\, we recommend reading the book in advance\, but you are welcome to attend as long as you are all right with spoilers. \nAbout the author:\nAriela Freedman was born in Brooklyn and has lived in Jerusalem\, New York\, Calgary\, London\, and Montreal. Her reviews and poems have appeared in Vallum\, carte blanche\, The Cincinnati Review and other publications\, and she was selected to participate in the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s 2014 Mentorship Program. She has a Ph.D. from New York University and teaches literature at Concordia’s Liberal Arts College in Montreal\, where she lives with her husband and two sons. Her first novel\, Arabic for Beginners\, was shortlisted for the QWF/Concordia first book prize\, and won the Mona Elaine Adilman Award for Fiction in 2018. A Joy to Be Hidden (2019) is her second novel. \nAbout the book:\nA Joy To Be Hidden is set in a vividly recreated late-90s New York City. The protagonist is Alice Stein\, a graduate student whose father died a year before\, and who has now lost her grandmother. In the process of sorting through the grandmother’s belongings\, Alice unlocks a family secret. In addition to its wisdom and rich humour\, the novel is full of memorable characters. We can never quite forget the title quote–“It Is a joy to be hidden\, and a disaster not to be found” (D. W. Winnicott)–and we discover\, over the course of the novel\, that it applies to all its characters.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/ariela-freedman-book-club-with-the-author/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T200000
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CREATED:20190828T183623Z
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SUMMARY:Expanding Our Poetic Range through Memory\, Place\, and the Senses
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Cristina Plamadeala\nThis workshop is for poets of any level of experience who are seeking to expand the range of their subject matter. Limited to 12 participants. \nHow\, 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. \nWorkshops 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 \n\na child’s-eye view: writing through the lens of childhood;\nlost and found: orienting through poetry;\n(re)mapping our world: a sense of place;\nentering the myth: poetic exchanges with mythology; and\nmapping the landscape of the body.\n\nParticipants 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.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/expanding-our-poetic-range-through-memory-place-and-the-senses/2019-10-30/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20191009T161902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191009T161902Z
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SUMMARY:Mary Soderstrom Launches Frenemy Nations
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Frenemy Nations\, as well as a short reading and discussion of why some places that should be alike aren’t alike. \nFRENEMY NATIONS:\nLove and Hate between Neighbo(u)ring States.\nIn the summer of 1968\, Mary Soderstrom and her husband loaded up their VW Beetle and immigrated to Canada from the United States. The contrast between their new home and their old led to a long-running reflection on what makes the two countries different. How could two places that are similar in so many ways be so disparate in others? \nIn Frenemy Nations\, Soderstrom answers this question by addressing a range of geographical “odd couples”: including the United States and Canada; New Hampshire and Vermont; Alberta and Saskatchewan; Haiti and the Dominican Republic; Scotland and Ireland; Rwanda and Burundi; and more. Through it all\, Soderstrom shows how tiny differences—in geographic features\, colonial histories\, resource competition\, education\, women’s roles\, language\, and migration—can have outsized effects on how polities develop. \nMARY SODERSTROM is a Montreal-based writer of fiction and non-fiction with six works of non-fiction\, three short story collections\, six novels and one children’s book to her credit. The University of Regina Press published her non-fiction book Road through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move in 2017 while Cormorant Books published her most recent novel River Music in 2015.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/mary-soderstrom-launches-frenemy-nations/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T200000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20190920T165156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190920T165156Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Danger Model
DESCRIPTION:Madelaine Caritas Longman launches her first book of poetry\, The Danger Model (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2019). The book confronts questions about art\, illness\, identity\, and the paradox of authenticity\, looking at what it means to be a “self” in contexts as diverse as the medical system\, performance art\, queer adolescence\, and Talmudic debate. Featuring a special guest reading by Tess Liem\, whose debut collection Obits was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award and recently won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for 2019.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-the-danger-model/
LOCATION:Librairie Bertrand\, 430 Rue Saint-Pierre\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H2Y 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T200000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
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SUMMARY:Write Now: A Playwriting Intensive to Jumpstart Your Play
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Sabrina Reeves\nThis 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. \nThis 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. \nTopics covered will include: \n\nCharacter development\nStructure\nDialogue\nStakes\nRe-writes.\n\nEach week\, selected participants will bring in sections of their work for feedback. \nThe 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.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/write-now-a-playwriting-intensive-to-jumpstart-your-play/2019-10-29/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T173000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20190905T152338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190905T152338Z
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SUMMARY:Morris House Reading Series (MHRS) - Kim Thuy
DESCRIPTION:Kim Thúy’s debut novel Ru won the Governor General’s Award for French-language fiction at the 2010 Governor General’s Awards. An English edition\, translated by Sheila Fischman\, was published in 2012. The novel was a shortlisted nominee for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2013 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. The novel won the 2015 edition of Canada Reads\, where it was championed by Cameron Bailey. In 2016\, Thúy published her third novel\, Vi. An English translation\, again by Fischman\, was published in 2018. The book was named as a long-listed nominee for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize. \nShe reads and speaks at Bishop’s University (in Cleghorn\, McGreer Building) on October 29\, 2019\, from 4.30 pm to 5.30 pm. The event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/morris-house-reading-series-mhrs-kim-thuy/
LOCATION:Bishop’s University\, 2600 College Street\, Sherbrooke\, Quebec\, J1M 1Z7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T200000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20190904T150551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190904T150551Z
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SUMMARY:WORDPLAY  A writing workshop in celebration of creativity and wonder
DESCRIPTION: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. \nFor 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. \nWhether 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. \nWorkshop leader: Carolyn Boll\nA 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.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/wordplay-a-writing-workshop-in-celebration-of-creativity-and-wonder/2019-10-29/
LOCATION:Atelier d’Art Meteque\, 5442 Cote Saint Luc Road\, NDG\, QC\, H3X2C5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance,Workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191028T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191028T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20190828T183354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190828T184332Z
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SUMMARY:Slantwise to the Truth: Navigating Narrative Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Niamh Malcolm\nAll levels are welcome. Limited to 12 participants. \n“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant/success in Circuit lies” — let poet Emily Dickinson’s words inspire you as we navigate narrative nonfiction\, writing that takes the best elements of fiction\, applies those to facts\, and ends with compelling stories. \nIn this workshop you will take your own “big idea” and add to it week-by-week until at the end of eight sessions you’ll have a draft narrative essay of 2\,000 words or more. Each meeting will be split between discussing one of six elements necessary for good narrative nonfiction and workshopping participants’ writing. This will be supported by readings related to the discussion and to the week’s assigned writing. Below is an outline covering six weekly discussions. Two additional weeks are left open to allow for flexibility – perhaps there will be spillover from a previous week’s discussion or perhaps by consensus we’ll toss in another idea to discuss or take extra time to workshop participants’ work. \nPlease note that this workshop will not focus on memoir writing. Although memoir falls into the category of narrative nonfiction\, I encourage participants to look beyond it when considering their writing for these eight weeks. \n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/slantwise-to-the-truth-navigating-narrative-nonfiction/2019-10-28/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191028T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20191009T162029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191009T162540Z
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SUMMARY:New Reads Book Club: Home Remedies
DESCRIPTION: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. \nFor our OCTOBER meeting\, we will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Bernard O.) at 7 pm to discuss Home Remedies by Xuan Juliana Wang. \nJoin us for discussion and drinks with Librairie bookseller and host Rachel Wallace! \n**We offer a 20% discount on Home Remedies from now until the meeting date.** \nThe Book:\nXuan Juliana Wang’s remarkable debut introduces us to the new and changing face of Chinese youth. From fuerdai (second-generation rich kids) to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster\, her dazzling\, formally inventive stories upend the immigrant narrative to reveal a new experience of belonging: of young people testing the limits of who they are\, in a world as vast and varied as their ambitions. \nIn stories of love\, family\, and friendship\, here are the voices\, faces and stories of a new generation never before captured between the pages in fiction. What sets them apart is Juliana Wang’s surprising imagination\, able to capture the innermost thoughts of her characters with astonishing empathy\, as well as the contradictions of the modern immigrant experience in a way that feels almost universal. Home Remedies is\, in the words of Alexander Chee\, “the arrival of an urgent and necessary literary voice we’ve been needing\, waiting for maybe\, without knowing.”
URL:https://qwf.org/event/new-reads-book-club-home-remedies/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191028T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191028T200000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20190828T184620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190828T191205Z
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SUMMARY:Writing to Preserve Memory: Capturing and Sharing Life Stories
DESCRIPTION:All levels are welcome. Limited to 12 participants. \nIsabel Allende confessed\, “I write to preserve memory against the erosion of oblivion and to bring people together.” \nEvery life is a story\, and when we write that story\, we not only preserve it but share the joys and disappointments\, the heartaches and the triumphs\, and most importantly\, the lessons learnt. \nMemoir\, by its nature\, is more concerned with the emotional truth of occurrences and moments from a life\, as opposed to biography\, which is more often focused on factual or chronological events. \nIn this memoir workshop\, we will explore how to begin telling your story and review examples of the different ways that a story can be told. Will it be a travelogue or will it focus on major events that influenced your life? Or will it be about a relationship with a loved one? These are just a few possibilities. \nA portion of each session will be set aside for writing exercises based on prompts to help unlock the confidence you need to shape your story\, and to share your writing. \nAs an adjunct\, a recommended reading list of traditional and innovative memoirs will be provided\, and participants will be encouraged to review and share their favourite styles.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-to-preserve-memory-capturing-and-sharing-life-stories/2019-10-28/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20191021T160201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191021T160201Z
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SUMMARY:Lesbians and Queers:  A Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Some lesbians identify as queer and some queers identify as lesbians. Those who don’t tend to have lots of ideas about each other. And lots of suspicions. We don’t often try and talk across this rift—which is a real shame because lesbians and queers have everything to gain from really listening to each other. \nAt the core of this event is a series of readings and presentations by local writers and artists brought together by co-hosts Lise Weil and Anna J. Weick. Readers and presenters will include: Lise Weil\, Avery Burrow\, Élyanne Coursol-Dion\, Myriam Fougère\, River Halen Guri\, Tara McGowan-Ross\, Nicola Sibthorpe and Malek Yalaoui.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/lesbians-and-queers-a-dialogue/
LOCATION:L’Euguélionne Bookstore\, 1426 Rue Beaudry\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2L 3E5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20190916T150649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190916T150649Z
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SUMMARY:Greenwood's StoryFest 2019
DESCRIPTION:Retired Canadian astronaut Dave Williams is this year’s special guest author at StoryFest for Kids at 10 am and for the adult audience at 2 pm. The morning’s admission is by donation but please reserve your place on line\, and tickets for the afternoon adult presentation are on sale on line.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/greenwoods-storyfest-2019-8/
LOCATION:Stephen F. Shaar Community Centre\, 394 Main\, Hudson\, Quebec\, J0P 1H0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events,Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T163000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20191016T160425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T160425Z
UID:10002022-1572102000-1572107400@qwf.org
SUMMARY:The Naked Civil Servant (Violet Hour Book Club)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next meeting of the Violet Hour Book Club\, a reading group devoted to modern and classic works of LGBTQ literature. The book we will be discussing is The Naked Civil Servant (1968) by Quentin Crisp.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-naked-civil-servant-violet-hour-book-club/
LOCATION:Never Apart\, 7049 Rue Saint-Urbain\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2S 3H4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T140000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20191011T152944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191011T152944Z
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SUMMARY:Louise Carson Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Author signing
URL:https://qwf.org/event/louise-carson-book-launch-3/
LOCATION:Librairie Clio Bookstore\, St-Jean’s Shopping Plaza\, Pte-Claire\, QC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20191009T162105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191009T162105Z
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SUMMARY:Johanna Skibsrud & Karen Houle Book Launch\, hosted by Erín Moure
DESCRIPTION:Join these two fab writers for readings and conversation! Johanna and Karen descend on D&Q to launch new books in Montreal for the first time since they co-launched their first books here\, way back when! Johanna Skibsrud is back with a new novel\, Island\, and a book of amazing essays\, The Nothing that Is. Karen Houle from Guelph brings her third book of poetry\, The Grand River Watershed: A Folk Ecology\, finalist for this year’s GG in Poetry! Two amazing women thinkers and word-makers\, together in a unique evening! Hosted by Erín Moure\, who loves their work! \nABOUT THE BOOKS\nTHE GRAND RIVER WATERSHED: A FOLK ECOLOGY by Karen Houle: “In her new book\, philosopher and poet Karen Houle employs the wiliest tool she knows—poetry—to contemplate the Grand River watershed in southern Ontario\, stretching our notions of what can be known about a river. Houle’s poems strain against settled rules\, agitating for a more complex\, robust portrayal of the Grand River watershed by fusing disparate narratives and methodologies—scientific and anecdotal\, personal and collective\, emotion and information\, the organic and the manufactured.” published by Gaspereau Press\, 2019 \nTHE ISLAND by Johanna Skibsrud: “On an imaginary island where socio-economic divides run deep\, an insurrection brews. Over the course of a day\, the lives of two women–one a rebel\, one a diplomat–will forever change. Part fantasy\, part parable\, Island deftly explores vital questions of history and responsibility\, demanding we consider our legacies of cultural imperialism and the veiled costs of our wireless world.” published by Penguin Random House\, 2019 \nTHE NOTHING THAT IS: ESSAYS ON ART\, LITERATURE\, AND BEING by Johanna Skibsrud\, explores the concept of “nothing” and the ways in which poetic language can activate possibilities within every moment. Traversing a broad range of topics—including false atrocity tales\, fake news\, high-wire acts\, and telepathy\, as well responding to works by John Ashbery\, Virginia Woolf\, Anne Carson\, and more—Skibsrud seeks to question how history is “given” to us. Within every encounter between a speaking “I” and what exceeds that “I” subjectivity\, she finds a listening “Other.” Published by Book*hug\, 2019 \nABOUT THE AUTHORS\nJOHANNA SKIBSRUD is the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists as well as the novel Quartet for the End of Time\, and the short story collections Tiger\, Tiger and This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories. She is also the author of three poetry collections\, including The Description of the World\, which won the 2017 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and the Fred Cogswell Award. Originally from Pictou County\, Nova Scotia\, she currently divides her time between Cape Breton\, Nova Scotia\, and Tucson\, Arizona. Tonight we are launching her third novel\, Island (2019) and a marvellous book of essays\, The Nothing That Is\, on literature\, art\, and being! \nKAREN HOULE is the author of two acclaimed poetry collections\, Ballast (1995) and During (2000). She teaches Philosophy at the University of Guelph and works as well with the Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming\, where her interest in putting environmental ethics into practice has shifted her toward land-based approaches to learning. She lives in Guelph\, Ontario and we are thrilled to have her in Montreal for an evening to launch her Grand River: A Folk Ecology!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/johanna-skibsrud-karen-houle-book-launch-hosted-by-erin-moure/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20190828T184426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190828T184426Z
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SUMMARY:Urgency\, Dread\, Risk: A Short-Fiction Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Adam Michiels\nThis workshop is intended for fiction writers who have written short stories before\, and who have experience with the workshop environment. Limited to 12 participants. \nWe’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. \nParticipants 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. \nReadings will include Namwali Serpell\, Jamel Brinkley\, Casey Plett\, Carys Davis\, Octavia Butler\, and Ottessa Moshfegh\, among others.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/urgency-dread-risk-a-short-fiction-workshop/2019-10-24/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T213000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20190916T150621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190916T150621Z
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SUMMARY:Greenwood's StoryFest 2019
DESCRIPTION:StoryFest 2019 has invited journalist/historian D’Arcy Jenish to read from and discuss his book\, The Making of the October Crisis.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/greenwoods-storyfest-2019-7/
LOCATION:St. James Church\, 642 Main\, Hudson\, Quebec\, J0P 1J0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events,Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20191009T162253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191009T162253Z
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SUMMARY:Taras Grescoe launches Possess the Air
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Taras Grescoe’s thrilling new history of resistance to fascism in Mussolini’s Rome. A reading\, a book talk\, a celebration of Taras and of patriots committed to democracy and inclusion. \nPOSSESS THE AIR\nPlunging readers into Fascist Rome at the height of Mussolini’s power\, Possess the Air tells the story of three people who defied Italy’s authoritarian despot by opposing the rising tide of populism and xenophobia. Two Canadian archeologists\, Gilbert Bagnani and his wife Mary Stewart Houston\, maddened the self-styled Caesar\, determined to dispel his claims that Rome was—and always would be—rightful master of the Mediterranean\, while poet and aviator Lauro de Bosis\, firstborn of an Italian aristocrat and a New Englander\, transformed himself into a modern Icarus\, amazing the world as he risked his life in the skies bring the dictator down. An inspiring story of resistance\, risk\, and sacrifice\, Taras Grescoe’s portrait of heroes past is an essential biography for our time. \nTARAS GRESCOE is the author of seven non-fiction books\, including Sacré Blues\, The End of Elsewhere\, The Devil’s Picnic\, Bottomfeeder\, Straphanger\, and Shanghai Grand. Bottomfeeder won the Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction\, the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction\, and was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. He has contributed to the New York Times\, The Guardian\, The New Yorker\, Gourmet\, and The Wall Street Journal. His books have been translated into half a dozen languages. He lives in Montreal.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/taras-grescoe-launches-possess-the-air/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20191007T142627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T142627Z
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SUMMARY:Fall LGBTQ Reading Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a reading by four wonderful LGBTQIA+ authors! We’ll have copies of their books available for sale and signing\, as well. \nOur lineup:\nTrebor Healey is most recently the author of Falling\, a short story collection in which characters lose their way\, figuratively and literally\, and confront the profound displacement of modern life. He is the recipient of a Lambda Literary award\, two Publishing Triangle awards and a Violet Quill award. He is the author of three novels\, A Horse Named Sorrow\, Faun and Through It Came Bright Colors; a book of poetry\, Sweet Son of Pan; and two previous collections of stories\, A Perfect Scar and Eros & Dust. He co-edited (with Marci Blackman) Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco and co-edited (with Amie M. Evans) Queer & Catholic. \nMadelaine Caritas Longman is a poet and essayist living in Montreal. Her work has appeared in Room\, filling station\, Lemon Hound\, and Prism. Her first book\, The Danger Model\, was released this fall from McGill-Queen’s University Press. \nFelice Picano is the author of more than thirty books of poetry\, fiction\, memoirs\, nonfiction\, and plays. His work has been translated into many languages and several of his titles have been national and international bestsellers. He is considered a founder of modern gay literature along with the other members of the Violet Quill. Picano also began and operated the SeaHorse Press and Gay Presses of New York for fifteen years. His first novel was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Since then he’s been nominated for and/or won dozens of literary awards. Picano teaches at Antioch College\, Los Angeles. \nNicola Sibthorpe is Montreal born\, and has recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at Concordia University\, focusing on the creation of identity through the intersections of neuro-divergenece and queerness. In 2017\, she was the inaugural winner of the Quebec Young Writers Award\, and has otherwise been published in Headlights\, QWF Writes\, and Carte-Blanche.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/fall-lgbtq-reading-showcase/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T200000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20190828T183351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190828T185022Z
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SUMMARY:The Very Short Story: Reading and Writing Fiction of 300 to 1000 Words
DESCRIPTION:All levels are welcome. Limited to 12 participants. \nThe 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. \nIn 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? \nDrawing 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. \nFor 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.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-very-short-story-reading-and-writing-fiction-of-300-to-1000-words/2019-10-24/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T153000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20190917T201844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190917T201844Z
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SUMMARY:Visit from award winning author Eliza Robertson
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday October 24 at 2:30pm for a visit with award winning author Eliza Robertson. She will be reading from her book “Demi-Gods.” \nBio: ELIZA ROBERTSON’s 2014 debut collection\, Wallflowers\, was shortlisted for the East Anglia Book Award\, the Danuta Gleed Short Story Prize\, and selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Her critically acclaimed first novel\, Demi-Gods\, was a Globe & Mail and National Post book of the year and the winner of the 2018 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize. She studied creative writing at the University of Victoria and the University of East Anglia\, where she received the Man Booker Scholarship and Curtis Brown Prize. In addition to being shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize and Journey Prize\, Eliza’s stories have won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and 2017 Elizabeth Jolley Prize. Originally from Vancouver Island\, Eliza lives in Montreal. \nFor more information: http://www.elizarobertson.com/
URL:https://qwf.org/event/visit-from-award-winning-author-eliza-robertson/
LOCATION:Bibliothèque de Baie-D’Urfé\, 20551 Lakeshore Rd\, Baie-D'Urfé\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T160000
DTSTAMP:20260427T040643
CREATED:20190916T182625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190916T182625Z
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SUMMARY:Seasons Change: An Afternoon Writing Activity
DESCRIPTION:Join the Atwater Writers Exhibition for a two-hour writing activity led by poet Deanna Smith\, who will offer exercises and writing prompts related to managing changes in life\, metamorphoses\, loss\, and the arrival of new opportunities. \nDeanna Smith is a Montreal-based poet\, performer and educator. She believes deeply in the healing and transformative power of words. \nThis workshop is FREE and OPEN TO ALL. Registration is NOT required. \nFor more information contact Elise at elise.m@videotron.ca. \nThis event is taking place on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka.\nGenerously supported by the Community Cultural Action Fund (CCAF) of the Department of Canadian Heritage.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/seasons-change-an-afternoon-writing-activity/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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