Quebec Writers' Federation

Crafting Kick-Arse Tales for Kids and Teens
2021-04-05 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-04-12 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-04-19 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
Workshop details TBA!

New Reads Book Club: The Lying Life of Adults
2021-04-06 20:00 - 21:30 | Online via Zoom
VIA ZOOM
Meeting ID: 884 3485 4868
Passcode: [REDACTED]
The New Reads Book Club focuses on contemporary literature and is hosted by Drawn & Quarterly staff members.
For our April 6th meeting, we will meet virtually at 8pm to discuss The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante.
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Beginnings, Openings, Origins: A Poetry Workshop
2021-04-06 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-04-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Online via Zoom

Telling Tales: Long-form Journalism for Mainstream Media
2021-04-07 18:00 - 20:00, 2021-04-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Online via Zoom

Fiction: Reconstructions of Reality
2021-04-07 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-04-14 20:00 - 22:00 | Online via Zoom

Penning the Pandemic -- Atwater Library Lunchtime Series
2021-04-08 12:30 - 13:30 | Zoom, https://bit.ly/35akIGi
In advance of the book’s launch at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival, local writers present short pieces from Chronicling the Days, the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s collection on life under the pandemic. Featuring Angela Leuck, Carolyn Marie Souaid, Greg Santos, Joe Bongiorno, and Nisha Coleman in conversation with Crystal Chan.

Spring Cleaning: Workshopping Session
2021-04-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Online
Join us on April 8th as we workshop, edit, and clean up our work, just in time for spring!! This will be a relaxed space to share your work and ask for constructive feedback (or just share whatever you’ve been working on!)
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ACCESSIBILITY:
• This is not a place for racism / sexism / ableism / homophobia / transphobia. //
• Each guest’s microphone and camera will be turned off unless they turn it on themselves. As hosts, we also have the ability to mute someone or remove them from the event if they exhibit inappropriate or hateful behaviour. //
We’ve updated our community guidelines for online events, you can access them here: https://drive.google.com/…/1ZyznlHIHiD2gBZSngh4keXn6f5…/
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
Mcsway Poetry Collective wants to acknowledge that the land we meet on is the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehà:ka, also known as the Keepers of the Eastern Door. These lands and waters on which we meet have long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst nations. We have a responsibility as people who enjoy this land to acknowledge that it was taken from the Kanien’kehà:ka by colonial settlers, and that colonialism continues to exist in Canada today through the government taking natural resources from unceded indigenous territory. One of Mcsway’s priorities is to create a safe space where indigenous writers are welcome to share their work. We challenge everyone to take a second to think about the last poem they read by an indigenous writer. If you can’t think of one, we challenge you to find work by an indigenous writer to read, preferably by buying the book to support their craft. It’s up to us to resist colonialism in any form it may take.

The Three-Act Theory of Life (and Screenwriting)
2021-04-08 18:00 - 20:00, 2021-04-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Online via Zoom

Argo Zoom Reading Series: Verse, Prose & Song
2021-04-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Online via Zoom
Argo Zoom Reading Series: Verse, Prose & Song
Thursday April 8, 2021 || 7 PM to 9 PM || Free

Hosted by Adele-Elise Prevost & Moti Lieberman (514.931.3442)
Curator Ilona Martonfi (ilona.martonfi@sympatico.ca)

Featuring:
Devon Gallant is the author of four poetry collections including S(tars) & M(agnets) which bill bissett called ‘a mirakul uv a book.’

Susan Elmslie’s prize-winning poetry includes Museum of Kindness (Brick 2017) and I, Nadja, and Other Poems (Brick 2006). www.susan.elmslie.org

Ilona Martonfi is an editor, poet, curator & activist, her most recent poetry book is Salt Bride (Inanna, 2019). Forthcoming, The Tempest (Inanna, 2022).

Zsolt Alapi is an editor and publisher whose latest publication is his novel from DC Books, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.

Michael Reinhart is a visual artist & musician, with 5 albums, numerous dance, theatre & film scores to his credit since the early ‘80s.

Lady Rojas Benavente, the author of Water Star (2017), is the president of the Canadian literary criticism of Hispanic American women writers.

Willow Loveday Little is a writer and editor whose work appears in places like The Dalhousie Review, On Spec, and yolk.

Matthew Rettino‘s poetry has recently appeared in Lantern Magazine‘s Dream issue this past January.

Tommy Schnurmacher is a broadcaster, author, humorist, and raconteur. Main regret? Not having worked as performance artist.

Argo Bookshop 1915 Ste. Catherine St. West
https://www.argobookshop.ca/

Facebook Link: https://fb.me/e/icTIhbewx

Please email events@argobookshop.ca for the Zoom link

Speculative Fiction: Creating and Writing Alternative Worlds
2021-04-08 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-04-15 20:00 - 22:00 | Online via Zoom

Café Québec - Je me souviens
2021-04-10 13:45 - 14:45 | Online via Zoom
Four poets from Canada share their journey between the Two Solitudes (Endre Farkas, Hélène Dorion, Carolyn Marie Souaid, and Alain Cuerrier) as part of the 5th edition of the Sierra Poetry Festival.
Sierra Poetry Festival is an international festival marking National Poetry Month from the rolling foothills of California’s Gold Country to the rugged High Sierra, bringing a rich literary community together to celebrate the spoken word. This year, (themed “Re-membering” ) the virtual festival features some of the most exciting poets, musicians, literary critics, and presenters from across the world for an interdisciplinary experience that engages audiences globally. All events, including workshops, are FREE, but REGISTRATION is required. Visit sierrapoetryfestival.org for details.

Imagination 2021: Stories of Secrets and Resistance – History Panel
2021-04-10 15:30 - 17:30 | Online – Please RSVP
**Registration necessary**

WITH:
Danielle Bobker – The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy
Taras Grescoe – Possess the Air: Love, Heroism, and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini’s Rome
Max Hamon – The Audacity of His Enterprise: Louis Riel and the Métis Nation That Canada Never Was, 1840-1875

Join us and discover the writings of the 2020 Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) Mavis Gallant Prize winners for Non-Fiction! Dive into eighteenth-century architecture and the performative space of the closet, view Mussolini’s Rome from the perspective of a poet and freedom fighter’s plane, and revisit Louis Riel’s participation in the crafting of Canada’s political landscape.

Moderator: Donald Fyson

This activity is held in partnership with the Quebec Writers’ Federation

Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/HistoryPanel
Full Program: morrin.org/imagination

The Lighter Side of Memoir Writing
2021-04-11 14:00 - 16:00, 2021-04-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Online via Zoom

Story Architecture: A Short-Fiction Workshop
2021-04-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Online via Zoom

Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads for Poetry Month
2021-04-13 15:00 - 16:30 | Online via Zoom
Join us on April 13, 4pm, in celebrating National Poetry Month with an online public poetry reading with Souvankham Thammavongsa. While recently the recipient of this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize for her collection of short fiction, How To Pronounce Knife, Souvankham has written four acclaimed books of poetry, including Cluster, Found, Light (which won the 2013 Trillium Book Award for poetry), and Small Arguments (which won the ReLit Award). She will be welcomed by Halifax Poet Laureate Sue Goyette, and the reading will be followed by a brief Question and Answer session.
Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four acclaimed poetry books and the short story collection How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller prize, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN/America Open Book Award, out now with McClelland & Stewart (Canada), Little, Brown (U.S.), and Bloomsbury (U.K.), available in French, and with foreign rights sold in China, Korea, and Turkey. Her stories have won an O. Henry Award and appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Granta, and NOON. Thammavongsa is a judge for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize. She was born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, Thailand and was raised and educated in Toronto.

Graphic Novel Book Club: The Magic Fish
2021-04-13 20:00 - 21:30 | Online via Zoom
VIRTUAL BOOKCLUB – VIA ZOOM
Meeting ID: 880 1969 6256
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Join our Graphic Novel Book Club as we meet online every month to discuss contemporary Graphic Novels!
At our next meeting, Tuesday, April 13th, at 8 PM EST, we’ll discuss The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen.
Where and How Can I purchase the book?
Find the book here: https://bit.ly/30qQyeD
More info on our webstore here:
http://mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/posts/webstore-faq
We Ship Canada-wide!
By purchasing your book at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly you help support 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. Your support is appreciated.

Please email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any questions!

Young Readers Book Club: Everything Sad Is Untrue
2021-04-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Online via Zoom
VIRTUAL MEETING – VIA ZOOM
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83868379721
Meeting ID: 838 6837 9721
Password: [REDACTED] write librairie@drawnandquarterly.com to request the passcode.
Join us at la Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly for our Young Readers book club, hosted by Molie! This month’s pick is Everything Sad Is Untrue, by Daniel Nayeri.
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.
Where and How Can I purchase the book?
Find the book here: https://bit.ly/392JZUY
More info on our webstore here:
http://mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/posts/webstore-faq
We Ship Canada-wide!
By purchasing your book at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly you help support 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. Your support is appreciated.

State of Create
2021-04-18 10:30 - 12:00 | Online via Zoom
“Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein

Whether you are writing for business, pleasure or passion your vision comes to life through a State of Create.

State of Create is a monthly drop in class designed to stimulate right brain potential using visualization, writing prompts and creative “exercises.” Carleen is passionate about connecting your story in mind-body-soul.

Join Carleen Sunday April 18, 1030am-12pm on zoom for your creative time and place. Seventy-five percent of the class will be experiential, 25% your next best action.
More information & registration: www.heartcentered.ca

Poets, Music, Video and Art on Sunday
2021-04-18 20:00 - 21:30 | Online via Zoom
An absorbing evening featuring:
-verse by Sarah Wolfson
-music by Geronimo Inutiq
-art by Louise Belcourt
–David Bateman as Dr. Sad
-a new video by Marie-Josée Tremblay
-words & music by Ian Ferrier

With a wealth of words, music, video and art, an online show to help us forget 8PM lockup (or is that lockdown?)

Measures of Weather: A Talk & Reading by J. R. Carpenter
2021-04-19 20:00 - 21:30 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
Join the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program in welcoming J. R. Carpenter, the University of Alberta’s 2020-21 Writer-in-Residence, for a virtual reading and talk hosted by creative writing professor Dr. Larissa Lai.
J. R. will read from her recent collections An Ocean of Static and This is a picture of Wind, and speak candidly with Larissa about working with found texts and archives; the cross overs between writing and data; and the ways in which the practice of measuring weather has supported colonialist expansion throughout history.
Followed by a Q&A.

Podcasting as a Field of Critical Study
2021-04-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Online
This online panel presentation will use the recent volume, Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media (ed. Dario Llinares, Neil Fox, Richard Berry) as an opportunity to think and engage in discussion about the emergence of podcasting as a field of critical study. Hosted by SpokenWeb podcast series director Hannah McGregor, the session will open with a presentation by one of the editors of the scholarly collection on Podcasting, Dario Llinares, in which he presents some of the main theses about podcasting presented in the book, and reflects on how the landscape of research around podcasting is rapidly developing. We will then hear brief position papers from respondents Stacey Copeland (SFU), Elena Razlogova (Concordia U), Kim Fox (American University in Cairo), Michael O’Driscoll (U Alberta) and Deanna Fong (Concordia U), sharing perspectives on podcasting as a field of scholarly research and practice. The discussion will then open up to questions and participation from attendees.

Attendees are invited to read the introduction to Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media in advance of the session (but that is not required!). At Concordia, the e-book is available here: https://link-springer-com.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/book/10.1007/978-3-319-90056-8

Date: Tuesday, April 20th, 2021
Time: 12pm EST [9am Pacific, 4pm UK, 6pm Cairo]
Platform: Zoom, RSVP to mailto:j_valenc@live.concordia.ca
PRESENTED BY SpokenWeb and The Media History Research Centre (MHRC) at Concordia University

Music and Mood: A Writing Workshop with Musical Inspiration
2021-04-20 14:00 - 15:30 | Zoom
In this workshop, participants will produce and share writing that responds to music and the (virtual) presence of a live musician, saxophonist Janet Lumb. By listening and tuning in to their own creative reactions, writers will explore the interplay between music and mood as well as sound, story, and memory, using language to examine the soundtracks in our lives.
Janet Lumb, a Toronto-born, third generation Chinese Canadian, lived in Vancouver for ten years as a hippie punk and has since 1984 been in Montreal as a musician, composer, ecologist and community activist.
K.B. Thors is the author of Vulgar Mechanics (Coach House Books), the Icelandic-English translator of Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir’s Stormwarning (Phoneme Media) and the Spanish-English translator of Soledad Marambio’s Chintungo: The Story of Someone Else (Ugly Duckling Presse). She has taught Poetry and Creative Writing at Columbia University, the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in Manhattan, and the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies.
