Mired 2 Moving: Getting Unstuck in Your Writing
2021-06-28 10:00 - 12:00, 2021-06-21 10:00 - 12:00, 2021-06-14 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
MONDAYs: June 14, June 21, and June 28, 2021 – 10:00 am to 12:00 noon

This workshop is limited to 25 participants.
Mired 2 Moving is a deep listening and storytelling space where everyone comes in with what they are holding and where they want to get to.
Our intention is to explore and strengthen your relationship with your writing. We work with elements of Journaling (awareness of, attention to, and honouring thought), loving kindness meditation (grounding and cultivating space within), social presencing theatre (getting unstuck), playback theatre (listening to self and other, spontaneity, creativity , improvisation) and guided visualization (symbols and the unconscious).
Come as you are, bring what you hold.
Lisa and Joliane of Montreal Living Histories will help us reflect about and play with creativity, the senses, self-care, pleasure, and creating writing together.
Joliane Allaire uses theatre techniques as pedagogical tools in education settings. For the last decade she has evolved with the Living Histories Ensemble where she explores intersections of Playback Theater, Theater for the Oppressed, Theatre for the Living, and Developmental Transformation.
Lisa Ndejuru is a psychotherapist, psychodramatist, and theatre practitioner. Her research – creation explores survival and life, stories and silence, persecution, genocide, war and dislocation through deep listening, storytelling, and play.
This workshop is FREE. It will be held on ZOOM. Space is limited. To register: awe@atwaterlibrary.ca.
This online workshop is being produced in partnership with the Quebec Writers’ Federation.
The Atwater Library and Computer Centre is located 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.

Spark: A Generative Workshop
2021-06-27 14:00 - 16:00 | Online via Zoom
This generative workshop will provide sparks to ignite new projects and constructive feedback to shape your writing past the first draft stage. If this year has been one of repose and stillness the intention with this workshop is to ignite the dark; discover new connections and try exercises designed to improve your prose. We will read, write and share (if you choose to) in the first session and the second will be devoted to giving feedback. Participants are encouraged to take some time to edit their drafts between sessions and to be prepared to give feedback to their peers. If you’ve been stuck in a rut or simply need to come to a writing space with intention where you can connect to other writers; this workshop is for you. Robert Frost said “writing a poem is discovering,” with a series of exercises that celebrate the unexpected and play with language we will engage and create together. All levels welcome as we will all be working with fresh, first drafts generated during the workshop.

Virtual Shut Up & Write! With QWF
2021-06-26 10:00 - 12:30, 2021-06-12 10:00 - 12:30 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
Looking for some dedicated, quiet writing space?
Register below to do all that writing you’ve been meaning to do. 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 you have to be logged in for the registration link to show up.
Please note as well that these sessions are designed for silent writing, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work.

1000 – 1025: Writing 1
1025 – 1030: Break
1030 – 1055: Writing 2
1055 – 1100: Break
1100 – 1125: Writing 3
1125 – 1130: Break
1130 – 1155: Writing 4
1155 – 1200: Break
1200 -1225: Writing 5

SALT & SAGE BOOKS: SENSITIVITY READING INDIGENOUS CONTENT
2021-06-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
There is a long, unfortunate history of appropriation and misrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in literature. As writing and publishing spheres encourage more inclusivity, editors must also be sensitive to the content they are tasked with editing. Even some of the most well-meaning authors may find themselves writing inauthentic or offensive passages when writing about culturally sensitive topics.

Join us for a discussion with Salt & Sage Books sensitivity readers Savannah Tenderfoot, Jordan Merica, Ronkwahrhakónha Dubé, Hinahina Gray, moderated by Salt & Sage Books representative Erin Olds, as they discuss their editorial experiences and offer advice for emerging and veteran editors. A form to submit questions or comments will be shared as part of the registration process.

IEA Members: Registration is free and opens on June 8. Please visit our Become a Member page for information on joining the IEA!
SFU Publishing students and IVA Attendees: Registration is free and opens on June 14. Please contact us for details and registration codes if you haven’t received one already.
Salt & Sage participants: 50% off Public registration, starting June 18.
Public registration is $10 and opens on June 18.

Stunning the Sun w/Sarah Burgoyne + Jessi MacEachern
2021-06-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
You are invited to a reading and conversation with the poets Sarah Burgoyne (Because the Sun) and Jessi MacEachern (A Number of Stunning Attacks).
Join the poets at 7:00 PM Eastern Time on Saturday, June 19th to hear the poets read each other’s work and enter into a short but scintillating conversation about poetry, violence, and sun — among many other things!
The event will be hosted on Zoom. Register on Eventbrite to receive the link by email one hour before the start of the event.

Contested Imaginaries
2021-06-19 09:00 - 16:00, 2021-06-18 09:00 - 16:00, 2021-06-17 09:00 - 16:00 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
Organized by students in the Humanities PhD program, Contested Imaginaries is a conference where students, artists, performers, and community members from Concordia and abroad can share knowledge, thoughts, art, and questions. Our theme centers on a sensibility of justice and the creation of alternative futures.
Day 1: Archives and Afterlives of the Anthropocene
June 17th, 2021
Panel 1: Decolonial and More-than-human Ecologies (9 – 10:30 am EST)
[9:00 – 9:15 am] – The Dark Posthuman: Social Reproduction, Social Justice, and EcologicalCare paper with video component presented by Dr. Stephanie Polsky (Goldsmiths, University of London).
[9:15 – 9:30 am] – Black Speculative Fiction as a Praxis of Moten’s “Nothingness”: Visions, Hallucinations, and Other Unpackings of Material Freedoms paper presented by Paige Grant (MA student, University of Toronto).
[9:30- 9:45 am] – ¡Co-existimos! A Multi-species Inquiry into Morpho butterflies as Urban Companion Species paper and photo-walk presented by Melina Campos Ortiz (PhD candidate, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montréal).
Q&A: 30 min
(Short break) (15 min)
Workshop 1 (10:30 – 12:00 EST)
Glimmering in the Gloom: Integrating Narrative Therapy and Speculative Fiction workshop facilitated by Tiffany Sostar (Community Scholar).
(Long break) 60 min
Panel 2: Unlikely Archives, Counter Discourses, Dissident Memories (1:00 – 2:30 pm EST)
[1:00- 1:15 pm] – A Creek Story: The Demise and Re-emergence of a Creek and Community paper presented by Dr. Grant Corbishley (Te Haapori i Haewai).
[1:15- 1:30 pm] – Cemeteries as Social Archives: Reflecting on mixed-method Fieldwork in South Lebanon paper presented by Sabah Fatima Haider (PhD Candidate, CISSC, Concordia
University, Montréal and Department of Social Anthropology and Ethnology, EHESS, Paris).
[1:30-1:45 pm] – Collage as Counter-Discourse to the ‘Here’ and ‘Now’ in Ali Smith’s Autumn paper presented by Leah Chochinov (MA student, Department of English, McMaster University).
[1:45 – 2:00 pm] – Memes as Anarchives: The Unlikely Variations of the Visconti Tarot paper presented by Albertine Thunier (PhD candidate, Communication Studies, Université de Montréal).
Q&A: 30 min
(Short break) (15 min)
Workshop 2 (2:45-4:00 pm EST)
Connection through Drawing #2: Experimental Participatory Drawing
Q + I (Oliver Cloke and Patrick Loan).
End of Day 1: Gather.town Party & Video Screening

Day 2: Sensory Imaginaries, Contested Phenomenologies
June 18th, 2021
Panel 1: Sounds and Movements of Resistance (9 – 10:30 am EST)
[9:00- 9:15 am] – Dance, Racism, and Anthropological Knowledge paper presented by Claire Vionnet (Visiting Postdoc Fellow, University Paris 8, Dance Department; Associate Junior Fellow,
Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern).
[9:15- 9:30 am] – Silencing an Acoustic Community: Gentrification as a Silencing Mechanism in the Context of Sarıgöl Romani Neighborhood paper with dance component presented by Burcu
Yaşin (PhD candidate, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montréal).
[9:30 – 9:45 am] – Walking With: An Aural Essay About Collective Feminism sound-walk presented by Amanda Gutierrez (PhD candidate, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society
and Culture, Concordia University, Montréal).
Q&A: 30 min
(Short break) (15 min)
Workshop 1 (10:30-12:00 EST)
Globalizing Hope: Co-Creating an Interactive Arts Kit for Emergencies, Resilience and Joy workshop facilitated by Hilal Demir, Gesa Bent, and Julia Kramer
(Long break) (60 min)
Panel 2: Embodiment & Affect (1:00 – 2:30 pm EST)
[1:00-1:15 pm] – In the Midst of Childhood: Representations of the “Problem Body” and the “Normative Body” in Children’s Lives paper presented by Madeleine DeWelles (University of
Toronto, Social Justice Education, OISE).
[1:15-1:30 pm] – ‘No Future’ for Queers: An Investigation into Pregnancy and Queer Joy as Utopia paper presented by Cathrin Fischer (University College Dublin).
[1:30-1:45 pm] – Stories of Cuts and Care paper presented by Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin, Joëlle Dubé, Laura Magnusson (PhD candidates, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and
Culture, Concordia University, Montréal).
[1:45 – 2:00 pm] – Have a Wobble: Fat, Movement, and Unstable Identities screening and participatory performance talk by Magdalena Hutter (PhD candidate, Centre for Interdisciplinary
Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montréal).
Q&A: 30 min
(Short break) (15 min)
Workshop 2 (2:45-4:00 pm EST)
Moving-with: Movement, Sensation, and (Re) discovery workshop facilitated by Keven Lee (PhD Candidate, McGill University, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy).
End of Day 2: Gather.town Party & Video Screening

Day 3: Poetic Imaginaries, Nocturnal Creativities
June 19th, 2021
Poetry Night (5 pm-6 pm EST)
Selection from Extraordinary Renditions by Niki Lambros
(Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montréal).
The 22 Weird Ellipses by Miles Forrester
(Department of English alumnus, Concordia University, Montréal)
Poetry Reading by Michael Shaw
(Department of English, Concordia University, Montréal)
Poetry Reading by Alexei Perri Cox
(Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montréal)
(Short break) (15 min)
Workshop (6:15-7:30 pm EST)
Allison Wist (Part-time Faculty, NYU Food Studies)
End of Day 3: Closing party on Gather.town

Write Here, Write Now! New Workshop Series Launch
2021-06-18 19:30 - 21:00 | Online – Please RSVP
Write Here, Write Now! workshop facilitators unveil next season’s schedule and read brief excerpts from their own work.
Our Fall 2021 season will balance old formats with new activities:
– Fantasy Fugue Forum will return, as will How to Write a Novel and Special Project: Memoir.
– The Saturday special workshops will include creating other worlds, flash memoir, and fantasy for non-fantasy writers.
– New additions will include readings by celebrated Canadian poets, a workshop on the technical elements of poetry, a series on writing local history, and some surprises.
To register, please find us on Eventbrite at:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/write-here-write-now-new-workshop-series-launch-tickets-156337596961
For more information, write us at bulla@ubishops.ca
Write Here, Write Now! is supported by Bishop’s University Lifelong Learning Academy.
Bishop’s University is located on the Traditional and Unceded Territory of the Abenaki People.

Graphic Novel Book Club: Fangs
2021-06-15 20:00 - 21:30 | Online via Zoom
Join our Graphic Novel Book Club as we meet online every month to discuss contemporary Graphic Novels!
At our next meeting, Tuesday, June 15th, at 8 PM ET, we’ll discuss Fangs by Sarah Andersen.
Where and How Can I purchase the book?
Find the book here: https://bit.ly/3xTNXJC
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.

Teen Book Club: Clap When You Land
2021-06-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Online via Zoom
Join us at la Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly for our Teen book club! Our June pick is Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo. No olds, please.
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.
Where and How Can I purchase the book?
Find it here: https://bit.ly/3u9JmRw
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.

New Reads Book Club: Klara and the Sun
2021-06-08 20:00 - 21:30 | Online via Zoom
VIA ZOOM
Meeting ID: 831 8693 6429
Passcode: [REDACTED]
The New Reads Book Club focuses on contemporary literature and is hosted by Drawn & Quarterly staff members.
June 8th, we will meet virtually at 8pm to discuss Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Where and How Can I purchase the book?
Find the book here: https://bit.ly/30zCW0S
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!

Getting Published in Lit Mags
2021-06-08 15:00 - 16:00 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
Canada has a great selection of literary magazines and journals. How can you increase your chances of getting published in their pages?

About this event

Canada has a great selection of literary magazines and journals. What can you do to increase your chances of getting published in their pages? Join Jessica Johns (Managing Editor, Room) and Greg Santos (Editor in Chief, carte blanche) for insider tips on lit mag submissions, selection processes, publication steps, and more. Plus, this session will include a quickfire First Page Challenge — a behind-the-scenes look at submission selection as Jessica and Greg offer on-the-spot feedback based on the first pages of anonymous submissions. Hosted by writer and translator Sally Ito, this webinar runs 60 minutes and includes a Q&A period.
Click here to submit the first page of your fiction, nonfiction, or poetry submission. (deadline: June 3, 2021).
TWUC members who are unable to attend will have access to a recording of the webinar for a limited time.
This webinar will be hosted on Zoom. Once you have registered with an Eventbrite ticket, you will receive a confirmation email from The Writers’ Union of Canada with instructions and your link to join the Zoom webinar on June 8.
The Spring/Summer 2021 webinar series is presented with support from the Access Copyright Foundation.
Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and is a member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. She is the Managing Editor for Room magazine and a co-organizer of the Indigenous Brilliance reading series. Her debut poetry chapbook How Not to Spill co-won the 2019 BP Nichol Chapbook Award and her short story, “Bad Cree,” won the 2020 Writers’ Trust Journey Prize. Her novel BAD CREE will be released in January 2023 with HarperCollins.
Greg Santos is a poet, editor, and educator. He is the author of Blackbirds (2018), Rabbit Punch! (2014), and The Emperor’s Sofa (2019). His newest poetry book is Ghost Face (2020). He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from The New School. He regularly works with at-risk communities and teaches at the Thomas More Institute. He is the Editor in Chief of the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s online magazine, carte blanche. Greg lives in Montreal with his family. Visit the author’s website: gregsantos.me. (Photo credit: Mollye Miller)
Sally Ito is a Japanese Canadian writer, translator, and teacher of creative writing who lives in Winnipeg. She has published three books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and was a co-translator for a book of Japanese children’s poetry about Japanese poet Misuzu Kaneko. Her latest book is her memoir, The Emperor’s Orphans, published by Turnstone in 2018.

D+Q Cooks Book Club: In Bibi's Kitchen
2021-06-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Online via Zoom
Virtual gathering via Zoom
Meeting ID: 886 9982 7193
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Join our D+Q Cooks Book Club as we meet every month virtually to discuss and and eat from new cookbooks!
Food lovers take note!
To attend this club we ask that you cook something from the cookbook and come ready to discuss and eat, virtually that is!
Super excited to test recipes from the book beforehand?! Tag us at #DandQCooks on Instagram or post your work on the Facebook page. You can also join our group Drawn & Quarterly Cook Book Club where we keep the discussion rolling. At our next meeting, Sunday, June 6th, at 6 PM ET, we’ll discuss IN BIBI’S KITCHEN, The Recipes And Stories Of Grandmothers From The Eight African Countries That Touch The Indian Ocean by Hawa Hassan, with Julia Turshen.
Where and How Can I purchase the book?
Find the book here: https://bit.ly/3va3uUA
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!

A Casual Reconstruction & STRIKE/THRU, at MAI and online
2021-06-05 15:00 - 17:00, 2021-06-04 15:00 - 17:00, 2021-06-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
𝗣𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻. 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱: 𝟭𝟬$.
𝐀 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 + 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐊𝐄 / 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐔 is a double-bill interdisciplinary encounter between two old friends from Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Nadia Myre is a contemporary visual artist and Algonquin member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinaabeg First Nation, and Johanna Nutter is a 7th generation euro-settler theatre maker and curator. Along with six invited participants, they explore the uncomfortable feelings around being Indigenous and/or non-Indigenous.
At the heart of 𝐀 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 is a recorded dinner conversation between six people whose origins are Indigenous and “other,” about the politics of belonging within the confines of colonialism. A verbatim transcript is given to Settler participants, who re-enact the conversation in front of the audience. Oscillations of identity constructs ensue. 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐊𝐄 / 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐔 is a playful exchange between Nadia and Johanna, incorporating elements raised by the reenactment with their own lived histories, in an always-evolving search for what a true act of conciliation might feel like and look like .
𝐀 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 + 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐊𝐄 / 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐔 have gone from stage to screen and will now live in both worlds simultaneously. Using the plasticity of the digital environment to bridge Nadia and Johanna’s disciplines, and the accessibility of the virtual environment to reach out to a wider range of participants, they are preparing a LIVE hybrid to be presented onstage at the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) and online at the same time. June 3-5, 2021 at 3PM EST
Nadia Myre et Johanna Nutter are recipients of MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels)’s Alliance program.

The Joy of Editing
2021-06-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
THE JOY OF EDITING
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Time: 7pm – 8:30pm EST
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_ORzI_8mcTxyeaWHISQhbjA
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Hosted by Palimpsest Press
Poetry reading & discussion about the writer/editor relationship

Librairie D+Q Presents Jordan Abel launching Nishga
2021-06-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly and McClelland & Stewart present Jordan Abel launching Nishga, in conversation with Ian Williams.
RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3dZx8Fo
Find the book here: https://bit.ly/2Pyb1ML
More info on our webstore here:
http://mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/posts/webstore-faq
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.
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NISHGA
As a Nisga’a writer, Jordan Abel often finds himself in a position where he is asked to explain his relationship to Nisga’a language, Nisga’a community, and Nisga’a cultural knowledge. However, as an intergenerational survivor of residential school–both of his grandparents attended the same residential school–his relationship to his own Indigenous identity is complicated to say the least.
NISHGA explores those complications and is invested in understanding how the colonial violence originating at the Coqualeetza Indian Residential School impacted his grandparents’ generation, then his father’s generation, and ultimately his own. The project is rooted in a desire to illuminate the realities of intergenerational survivors of residential school, but sheds light on Indigenous experiences that may not seem to be immediately (or inherently) Indigenous.
Drawing on autobiography and a series of interconnected documents (including pieces of memoir, transcriptions of talks, and photography), NISHGA is a book about confronting difficult truths and it is about how both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples engage with a history of colonial violence that is quite often rendered invisible.
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JORDAN ABEL is a Nisga’a writer from Vancouver. He is the author of The Place of Scraps (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Un/inhabited, and Injun (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize). Abel’s work has recently been anthologized in The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century (Hayward), The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry (Anstruther), Best Canadian Poetry (Tightrope), Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene (Wesleyan), and The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation (ARP). Abel’s work has been published in numerous journals and magazines–including Canadian Literature, The Capilano Review, and Poetry Is Dead–and his visual poetry has been included in exhibitions at the Polygon Gallery, UNIT/PITT Gallery, and the Oslo Pilot Project Room in Oslo, Norway. Abel recently completed a Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University, and is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing.

IAN WILLIAMS is the author of Reproduction, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Personals, shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award; Not Anyone’s Anything, winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada; and You Know Who You Are, a finalist for the ReLit Prize for poetry. He was named as one of ten Canadian writers to watch by CBC. Williams completed his Ph.D. in English at the University of Toronto, mentored by George Elliot Clarke, and is currently an assistant professor of poetry in the Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia. He was the 2014-2015 Canadian Writer-in-Residence for the University of Calgary’s Distinguished Writers Programme. He has held fellowships or residencies from the Banff Center, Vermont Studio Center, Cave Canem, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Palazzo Rinaldi in Italy. He was also a scholar at the National Humanities Center Summer Institute for Literary Study and is a judge for the 2018 Griffin prize. His writing has appeared in several North American journals and anthologies.
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Librairie Drawn & Quarterly recognizes that our events and bookstores are located on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. Many of us refer to Montreal as our home, but it is named Tiohtiá:ke. This has always been a gathering place for many First Nations and continues to be home to a diverse population of Indigenous peoples. It is important to think about how each and every one of us has arrived here. We are grateful that creating and sharing stories has been a part of this land for thousands of years and we urge you to seek out a story that is different from your own.
Please email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any questions!

Atwater Poetry Project Online - Jessica Moore & Johanna Skibsrud
2021-06-01 20:00 - 21:30 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
Join us for APP Online, celebrating Jessica Moore’s ‘The Whole Singing Ocean’ and showcasing new work from Johanna Skibsrud.

VIOLETTE
2021-05-30 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-05-29 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-05-28 16:00 - 18:00 | Espace Libre, 1945 Fullum, Montreal, Quebec, H2K 3N3, Canada
May 12 to 30, 2021 – VIOLETTE – Theatre and Virtual Reality.
Violette welcomes you into her world. She lets you enter the privacy of her room, and then of her imagination. Only you. Step into her place as into the home of a friend; put on your VR headset; see a universe of snow and forest materialize in front of your eyes; become the sole witness to Violette’s untold story, both magical and tragic.
Created and produced by JOE JACK & JOHN, with Stephanie Boghen and Tamara Brown.
Since its inception 17 years ago, JOE JACK & JOHN’s goal has been to bring forward marginalised voices (collaborating with actors living with intellectual disability) and to make audiences reflect on current issues.
VIOLETTE breaks down barriers while addressing a reality experienced by too many intellectually disabled women. During their lifetime, between 70 % and 90% are victims of sexual abuse.

Virtual Shut Up & Write! With QWF
2021-05-29 10:00 - 12:30 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
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.

1000 – 1025: Writing 1
1025 – 1030: Break
1030 – 1055: Writing 2
1055 – 1100: Break
1100 – 1125: Writing 3
1125 – 1130: Break
1130 – 1155: Writing 4
1155 – 1200: Break
1200 -1225: Writing 5

SpeakUp: Recto-Verso
2021-05-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Online via Zoom
GRATUITE
SpeakUp: Recto-Verso – L’Échange Interactif de Poésie de Montréal
Poètes : Diane Régimbald, Rae Marie Taylor, Paul Bélanger
AVEC SPEAKUP, LE PUBLIC EST ENGAGÉ
Chaque membre de l’auditoire recevra une copie du poème.
Chaque poète lira d’abord leur poème dans la version originale, puis dans sa version traduite, suivi d’une discussion de 15-20 minutes.
Le poète lira leur poème une dernière fois.
Visitez notre page Facebook pour plus de détails.
Contactez-nous pour vous inscrire et recevoir le lien Zoom: MTLSpeakUp@gmail.com
FREE EVENT
SpeakUp: Recto-Verso – The Montreal Inter-Active Poetry Exchange
Poets: Diane Régimbald, Rae Marie Taylor, Paul Bélanger
A POETRY READING WITH A DIFFERENCE: AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT
Each member of the audience receives a copy of the poem.
Each poet reads their poem first in the original version, and then in translation, followed by 15-20 minute discussion.
Poet reads a final time.
Visit our Facebook page for more details.
Contact us to register and receive the Zoom link: MTLSpeakUp@gmail.com

SpeakUp: Recto-Verso
2021-05-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
FREE EVENT
SpeakUp: The Montreal Inter-Active Poetry Exchange
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
Visit our Facebook page for more details.
Contact us to register and receive the Zoom link: MTLSpeakUp@gmail.com

GRATUITE
SpeakUp: L’Échange Interactif de Poésie de Montréal
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
Visitez notre page Facebook pour plus de détails.
Contactez-nous pour vous inscrire et recevoir le lien Zoom: MTLSpeakUp@gmail.com

Librairie Drawn & Quarterly and Véhicule Press presents Christopher DiRaddo launching The Family Way!
2021-05-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Presented by Véhicule Press in partnership with Librairie Drawn & Quarterly.
Join us for the launch of Christopher DiRaddo‘s much anticipated second novel, The Family Way.
The launch will feature a reading by Christopher DiRaddo and conversation with Canadian Journalist Rachel Giese, author of Boys: What It Means to Become a Man, winner of the 2019 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Questions from the audience will cap off the live online event.

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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.

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About THE FAMILY WAY by Christopher DiRaddo:
The year Paul turns forty, his friends Wendy and Eve ask him to help them get pregnant. Nothing about the process feels natural to him. But for a gay man of a certain age, making a family still means finding your own way through a world with few ready answers. The eighteen-month journey reveals many insights about Paul’s past and present, from his strained relationship to his father, his overprotective relationship with his partner Michael, and the many friends around him whom he considers his family.
Christopher DiRaddo lives in Montreal where he is the founder and host of the Violet Hour LGBTQ reading series. He is also the author of THE GEOGRAPHY OF PLUTO.
