Quebec Writers' Federation

Crafty Poetry
2020-10-15 20:00 - 22:00, 2020-10-08 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
Workshop details TBA!

Librairie D+Q presents Eva Crocker and Morgan Murray in conversation
2020-10-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Online via Zoom
Join us a for a virtual conversation with authors and friends Eva Crocker and Morgan Murray.
Eva Crocker is the author of the 2020 Giller nominated ALL I ASK . Morgan Murray is the author of the celebrated DIRTY BIRDS a book that takes from the Prairies to the Plateau on a hilarious quest to find Leonard Cohen!
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Write Like a Pro
2020-10-15 18:00 - 19:30, 2020-10-08 18:00 - 19:30, 2020-10-01 18:00 - 19:30 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
Writing can be an act of catharsis, a way of processing experiences during difficult times. Now, more than ever, we need to write our stories.
The Write Like a Pro workshop is designed to guide participants through the stylistic and technical elements that make a great piece of writing. It draws heavily from the art and craft of narrative non-fiction, but is relevant for anyone who wants to communicate more effectively through the written word. The nut of it is: How do you make your truth compelling to others?
Over the course of the workshop, we’ll cover: shaping ideas; planning and organising material; elements of storytelling; wordcraft and style; finding your voice; tough-love editing; and, finally, putting your work out there.
Now in its TENTH run, the Write Like a Pro workshop puts special focus on practising techniques we learn in class through the process of developing, writing, and polishing a short (500- to 1000- word) non-fiction piece by the end of the workshop. For most people, this requires setting aside an additional hour or so per week to write at home.
In each workshop, we’ll spend part of the time reviewing techniques and examples, and part of the time writing, sharing work, and providing feedback to others. Think of it like part writing class, part writing circle.
So, if you’ve been feeling the urge to write now more than ever, don’t hesitate to sign up.
Colleen Kimmett is a Montreal-based writer and journalist. Colleen’s work has been published in The Walrus, The Guardian, Al Jazeera America, Bright Magazine, In These Times, StatNews, Arctic Deeply, and beyond. Previously, she was a senior editor at The Tyee and a founding editor of The Discourse. Currently, she teaches a science communication course at McGill and is the community outreach coordinator for the Institute for Investigative Journalism.
For more details, please see event link.

Writing What We Don’t (Yet) Know: Fiction
2020-10-14 20:00 - 22:00, 2020-10-07 20:00 - 22:00 | Online via Zoom
Workshop description TBA!

Silver Pins: Novel Writing Workshop
2020-10-14 18:00 - 20:00, 2020-10-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Online via Zoom

Review, Refine, Submit: Strategies for Writing Short Prose
2020-10-13 20:00 - 22:00, 2020-10-06 20:00 - 22:00 | Online via Zoom

APP Online: Klara du Plessis & Erín Moure
2020-10-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Quebec
Atwater Poetry Project Online is delighted to be returning for two more events in October 2020!
On Tuesday, October 13, we are proud to present a two-tongued reading and discussion with Montreal-based poets Klara du Plessis & Erín Moure. Sharing concerns of language, translingualism, and writing across borders, this event celebrates du Plessis’s eagerly awaited second collection Hell Light Flesh (Palimpsest Press, 2020) and – among other things – Moure’s translation of Galician poet Uxío Novoneyra, The Uplands, Book of the Courel and other poems (Veliz Books, 2020).
The Atwater Poetry Project is made possible with funding and support from the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Atwater Library and Computer Centre.

Writing Memorable Characters for the Screen
2020-10-13 18:00 - 20:00, 2020-10-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Online via Zoom

Sensational Songwriting: the Art and Craft of Song [Live & Online]
2020-10-13 15:00 - 16:30, 2020-10-06 15:00 - 16:30, 2020-09-29 15:00 - 16:30 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
How do we know if an idea is solid enough to inspire a song? What’s the difference between a ballad and a 3 minute pop song? What are our choices when it comes to rhyming schemes and how do we maintain a flow when scanning lyrics to melody? How do we write a thrilling pre-chorus and what makes a song have an impact? In this four-week workshop we will transform your ideas into songs; exploring structure, storytelling techniques, melodic phrasing, harmonic support and verse/chorus/bridge formats. Each week there will be a songwriting assignment, followed by the opportunity to share your work and receive in-depth feedback from your instructor and peers.

What’s in a Name? A Poetry Workshop
2020-10-13 14:00 - 16:00, 2020-10-06 14:00 - 16:00, 2020-09-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
Names carry meaning. Some names carry a story, like Samson whose name conjures thoughts of cut hair, love betrayed, and strength. We can use names to add meaning and texture to our poems.
During the workshop, participants will be guided to write poems built around a name. Each week, we will: highlight a way a name can add texture to a poem; read and discuss a poem by an acclaimed poet who uses names to create images, foreshadow, or inject meaning; and write a poem inspired by the week’s poem. Participants will have the first draft of four new poems by the end of the workshop.
Registration Deadline: September 17, 2020.
Blossom Thom is a poet and editor. She is the author of #HashtagRelief (Gaspereau Press, 2017) and her poetry has appeared during art collaborations and in literary magazines and anthologies including Poetic Notions: A Weaving of Poetry and Visual Arts, Kola: A Black Literary Magazine, and Montréal Serai. A mentorship with George Elliott Clarke set the groundwork for her work-in-progress and was supported by a Professional Development for Artists Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
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Writing Outside the Box: a Workshop on Edgy Fiction
2020-10-09 13:00 - 15:00, 2020-10-05 18:00 - 20:00, 2020-10-02 13:00 - 15:00, 2020-09-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
Interested in examining unsettling or edgy themes but don’t know how to get started? Nervous about writing outside the usual rules of CanLit? This workshop series is designed to help writers of any medium, genre or experience level learn to start pushing boundaries with their work.
Full of provocative exercises and frank discussion, these fun and interactive sessions will provide participants with tips and techniques that will help build confidence in working with the unusual, the taboo and the experimental.
Students will be asked to read aloud from their work and to provide feedback to other participants. Students will also receive written feedback from the instructor as the course progresses.
Tracey Waddleton is a Newfoundland writer living in Montréal. Her work has been published in Riddle Fence, NQ, the Cuffer Anthology and elsewhere. A finalist for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers and recipient of the 2015 Lawrence Jackson Writers’ Award, Waddleton’s work has been described as weird and wonderful minimalist dark realism. Her first book, Send More Tourists… the Last Ones Were Delicious, was published in July of 2019. She is the inaugural recipient of the Quebec Writers’ Federation Max Margles Writing Residency and is scheduled to spend a month writing in Dublin in 2021.
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Argo Zoom Reading Series: Verse, Prose & Song
2020-10-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Argo Bookshop, 1915 Ste. Catherine Ouest, Montreal, Quebec H3H 1M3, Montreal, Canada
Argo Zoom Reading Series: Verse, Prose & Song Thursday, October 8, 2020
John Kerkhoven, Susan Elmslie, Larissa Andrusyshyn, Kate Lavut, Harold Hoefle, Matthew Murphy, Nadine Ltaif, Karen Isabel Ocaña, Matthew Rettino
Argo Bookshop 1915 Ste. Catherine St. West
https://www.argobookshop.ca/
Hosted by Adele-Elise Prevost & Moti Lieberman 514.931.3442
Curator Ilona Martonfi ilona.martonfi@sympatico.ca
7 PM-9 PM
Please email events@argobookshop.ca for the Zoom link.

Remembering: The Art and Craft of Memoir
2020-10-05 20:00 - 22:00 | Online via Zoom

Writing About Controversial Topics: Nonfiction
2020-10-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Online via Zoom

Reading: de Meijer, du Plessis, MacAskill
2020-10-02 19:00 - 20:00 | Online via Zoom
Join Sadiqa de Meijer, Klara du Plessis, and Annick MacAskill for an online reading from their new books alfabet / alphabet, Hell Light Flesh, and Murmurations respectively. Time is listed as EDT.
A link to the event will be made public closer to the date.
This event is kindly supported by the League of Canadian Poets.
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Annick MacAskill’s poems have appeared in journals and anthologies across Canada and abroad, including Arc, Canadian Notes & Queries, The Stinging Fly, Versal, Room, Plenitude, Canthius, This Magazine, and Best Canadian Poetry 2019. Her debut collection, No Meeting Without Body, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and shortlisted for the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award. Her second collection, Murmurations, was published by Gaspereau Press this spring. She lives in Halifax on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq. Visit her online at annickmacaskill.com
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Sadiqa de Meijer’s poetry has received the CBC Poetry Prize, Arc’s Poem of the Year Award, and her first collection was short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Her second collection, released this spring, is The Outer Wards (Vehicule). Her most recent book is the language memoir, alfabet / alphabet, released by Palimpsest Press this fall.
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Klara du Plessis’ debut collection, Ekke, won the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her second book, Hell Light Flesh, will be released, Fall 2020, with Palimpsest Press. Klara is a PhD English Literature student at Concordia University, a researcher for SpokenWeb, and currently expanding her curatorial practice to include experimental Deep Curation poetry reading events, an approach which places poets’ work in deliberate dialogue with each other and heightens the curator’s agency toward the poetic product. Klara writes poetry and essays in English, Afrikaans, and multilingually.

A Poetry Reading with Gillian Sze
2020-09-30 14:00 - 16:00 | Quebec
The Département de littératures et de langues du monde, section études anglaises, at the Université de Montréal invites you to join us for a poetry reading and discussion with Gillian Sze.

GILLIAN SZE is the author of multiple poetry collections, including Peeling Rambutan (2014), Redrafting Winter (2015), and Panicle (2017), which were finalists for the QWF’s A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. She studied Creative Writing and English Literature at Concordia University and received a Ph.D. in Études anglaises from Université de Montréal. Her forthcoming publications include a book of essays and poems from ECW Press and three books written for children. www.gilliansze.com

Please join us using the Zoom link: https://umontreal.zoom.us/j/97745719460?pwd=[REDACTED]
For any inquiries contact: jane.malcolm@umontreal.ca or joyce.boro@umontreal.ca
