Quebec Writers' Federation

Counter Offence
2023-03-22 19:30 - 20:30, 2023-03-23 19:30 - 20:30, 2023-03-25 19:30 - 20:30, 2023-03-26 19:30 - 20:30, 2023-03-27 19:30 - 20:30, 2023-03-28 19:30 - 20:30, 2023-03-29 19:30 - 20:30, 2023-03-30 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) and 2 more dates | Quebec
Set in 90’s Montreal, Counter Offence tells the story of Shazia, an Indo-Quebecois woman who finds herself caught in an abusive marriage with Shapoor, an Iranian man grappling with complex parental problems, and challenges of immigration. Things take a turn when Shapoor is arrested on domestic violence charges by Sgt. Galliard, a white officer staunchly dedicated to preventing violence against women. Moolchand, an Indo-Canadian anti-racist activist, comes to Shapoor’s defense, by accusing Galliard and the entire SPVM of racial bias. Clarinda Keith, a Black social worker, defends Galliard despite the police’s undeniable racism against people of colour, in order to support the voices of vulnerable women. When suddenly a body is found, everyone is a suspect as lines between what is right and wrong become blurred. Counter Offence explores multiple realities existing simultaneously, and asks the question: how can one discover truth through conflicting narratives?

The Ghost at the Heart of a Short Story
2023-03-22 20:00 - 22:00, 2023-03-29 20:00 - 22:00 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
A man down on his luck has moved everything he owns out onto his lawn, and for no reason anybody can articulate, he pawns some of it to two young passersby; in northern Ontario, a woman whose cancer is in remission lets a teenaged boy, half her age, kiss her on a floating bridge—she doesn’t know why; in a hotel room in Wenatchee, a man has a strange, galvanizing sexual encounter with a bare-knuckle boxer, and it leaves him more sure of himself, or more sure of his past, or more sure of who he might yet become. But if you asked him what had changed, he wouldn’t be able to tell you.

There is something ineffable in every good short story, something that cannot bepinned down, a question—perhaps insignificant—whose answer is not merely unknown, but unknowable, and whose presence haunts us long after we’ve put a story down.

This workshop is a guided discussion about the plot, characters, point of view, structure, and language (the mechanics or “craft”) of participants’ short stories, as well as an investigation of each story’s aboutness, patterns, emotional plot, and central question(s)—that is, all those hard-to-define elements that make fiction what it is.

Additionally, the workshop aims to foster community among the attendees, to bring together

writers of similar skill and drive, and to encourage the kind of creative energy that crackles

between new practitioners.

Some Learning Objectives

Critical reading, and the ability to identify the roots of a story’s problems, particularly with regard to dramatic structure and conflict. Conversely: the ability to identify the roots of a story’s successes, especially when it seems intangible or difficult to pin down.

Close reading, even of your own work, for strongest possible sentences. (They are, after all, the building blocks of fiction.)

Immersing yourself in, and engaging with, literature among a cohort of people who are similarly immersed and engaged in literature; enjoying it.

In our first meeting, we will establish a schedule, review workshop etiquette, spend some time meeting each other, and do a few writing exercises. From then on, each session will consist of detailed discussion and feedback of participants’ stories. The goal, always, is to offer the writer of each story constructive suggestions to help them improve the story and their craft. We are, I always say, in this together.

In preparation: Please bring a short story you’ve written of no more than 2500 words to the first session.

D. W. Wilson is the author of Once You Break a Knuckle, a collection of short stories, and Ballistics, a novel. His work has appeared in lit mags across the globe, and in 2011 he won the BBC National Short Story Award for “The Dead Roads.” Since then he has been shortlisted for numerous fiction prizes, and has won the CBC Short Story Prize and the Manchester Fiction Prize. He taught creative writing at the University of Victoria and Brandon University, as well at literary festivals such as the London Short Story Festival and Wordfest.

Writing the TV Pilot
2023-03-23 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-30 18:00 - 20:00 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
In this eight-week workshop, Montreal-based screenwriter Allen Markuze will give you the tools to be able to write a TV pilot. He’s going to do so by asking and helping answer the following…

What is your TV series about?

Is your idea sustainable?

What happens episode to episode?

What’s the theme of your show?

What are some similar shows?

Who are your characters?

Is your pilot going to be a premise episode or an episodic episode?

What is a three-act structure and five-act structure?

These intimate sessions will involve a mixture of group discussion, critical analysis of TV pilots and shows, and workshopping participants’ own ideas with the goal of completing their own TV pilot. Ideas will be workshopped in groups as well as one-on-one with the workshop leader and fellow participants.

Allen Markuze is an award-winning screenwriter who has taken part in writers rooms and has written for a variety of live-action and animation TV shows that have aired on the likes of Netflix, Disney, Nickelodeon, Hulu, and CBC. Before embarking on a screenwriting career, Markuze spent several years working in LA at Dan Halsted’s company, Manage-ment, where he helped manage a roster of writers from shows such as Mad Men and Breaking Bad, and on feature films like Friday Night Lights and Wall Street. Prior to that, he worked as an assistant to screenwriter Janus Cercone (Leap of Faith with Steve Martin). Markuze’s foray into the entertainment industry began as a development intern in LA at Underground Films (FX’s Snowfall) where he read countless scripts, books, and plays, and eavesdropped on A LOT of conversations.

carte blanche "Thaw" Spring Reading Event
2023-03-23 19:00 - 20:00 | Phoenix Books, 5928 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, Quebec, H4A 1X7, Canada
We are delighted to announce that carte blanche will be holding our first in-person reading event since 2019!
THAW: A CARTE BLANCHE SPRING READING EVENT
Thursday March 23rd at 7pm
Phoenix Books (5928 Sherbrooke St. W)
Reserve your spot (tickets are free!) here:
https://carteblanchemagazine.com/cb-news/thawreading
Featuring readings by:
Zoe Lubetkin
Domenica Martinello
Laura Mota

Biography, Autobiography, and Ghostwriting
2023-03-23 20:00 - 22:00, 2023-03-30 20:00 - 22:00 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
The basic tools of biography and autobiography are the same, and this workshop will show how you can write any life in a meaningful and engaging way.

The first challenge is learning how to put lives in a larger context. This means researching the times and places the subject lived in, then weaving their individual narratives with all of their complex personal relationships, into the larger world. We will learn how to do this with the use of the illuminating details that bring people and places to life.

We will also look at the sub-category of ghostwriting, where you are writing a first-person biography and, in a sense, become the person you are writing for, internalizing their thoughts and feelings as you use all of the tools at your disposal to tell their story as if was your own.

Ghostwriting also happens to be a field where a writer can make a decent living in Canada, and at the end of the course, we will look at the business side and what goes into a ghostwriting contract.

One thing you soon discover in writing biographies of any kind, including ghosting an autobiography, is the truth of the cliché that everyone has a book in them. At least in the sense that all of our stories—following our lives along the trajectories of time and space and meeting and beating challenges—are worth telling. As a writer you discover that it is a privilege to write someone else’s life.

Ideally, you will be working on biographical or autobiographical material of your own in the class, but this is not necessary. If you are working on a text now or if you are simply planning one for the future, I look forward to meeting you in the spring of 2023 and exploring the writing of lives together.

Peter McFarlane has written 4 nonfiction books of his own and five ghostwritten books, as well as more than 100 newspaper and magazine features. He has specialized in Indigenous history and politics and has worked on several CBC radio programs as a researcher and on-air contributor. He is currently completing another ghostwritten book and a new work of his own nonfiction.

4K Speaker Series – Historian Joseph Graham – The Christian Invasion, Colonial Encounters in Context
2023-03-24 13:00 | Quebec
In person and online via Zoom. Registration required.

The sixteenth-century European wars of religion were the launching pad for the mass migration to Turtle Island. Comparing European accounts with those from Indigenous perspectives illustrates the vast chasm that separated the understandings of these two civilizations. The path to reconciliation and living together as equals comes through acknowledging the truth of past actions.

Joseph Graham, historian and author of Naming the Laurentians and Insatiable Hunger, is also a columnist in both Main Street and the Quebec Heritage News. He also been published in The Gazette and Canada’s History Magazine. He has a deep interest in our history and explores who the non-Indigenous people were in the context of the Christian arrival here.

Live presentation (registration mandatory): In-person at Chalet Bellevue27 rue Bellevue, Morin-Heights (QC) J0R 1H0

Online presentation: connect on Zoom from the comfort of home

For in-person registration, contact info@4korners.org | 450-974-3940 | 1-888-974-3940 ext. 601

For online attendees, register to get the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlfu-qrDsuHtYXot-X-LRauB8nw1eyXvJD

Are you Talking to Me? A Dialogue Workshop
2023-03-26 10:00 - 16:00 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Dialogue is one of the key tools a writer can use in fiction and nonfiction. Good dialogue makes a scene sizzle with energy and life. Not only is it the words the characters speak to one another, dialogue reveals personality and voice, creates humour, generates tension, plays with pace, and dramatizes relationships.

In this full-day workshop we will focus on what dialogue is good for and what it isn’t. By touching on the three different ways of using dialogue (summary, indirect and direct), we will examine how dialogue reveals theme and the various formatting and styles of dialogue.

In the first half of the workshop, we will examine several excerpts from writers like Roddy Doyle, ZZ Packer, Akhil Sharma, Deborah Levy, and Eden Robinson. We will discuss how these authors use dialogue to accomplish several things at once and how this layering generates more compelling scenes. In the second half of the workshop the participants will have an opportunity to try two exercises, one on conflict and the other on silence, which will strengthen their knowledge and skill of how to use dialogue in their writing.

Each participant will leave with a handout summarizing the highlights of how to use dialogue.

A week before the workshop, a document with the readings will be sent out for the participants to read prior to attending the workshop.

Marcia Walker’s writing has appeared in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reads, The New Quarterly, Fiddlehead, The Chicago Review, The New York Times, PRISM international, Room, EVENT, The Globe and Mail, CBC radio and elsewhere. She has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, PRISM’s fiction and non-fiction prize, and the Writers’ Union of Canada short prose competition. She has completed residencies at Yaddo, the Banff Centre, Vermont Studio Center and will attend Saari, Finland in early 2023. Originally from Shakespeare, Ontario, she now makes her home in Montreal where she teaches creative writing online through the University of Toronto.

Visit her at www.marciawalker.ca

Morin Heights Book Club discusses "Don't Ask"
2023-03-27 11:00 - 13:00 | Quebec
Gina Roitman will be meeting with the Morin Heights Book Club to discuss the origins and research that informed “Don’t Ask,” a literary thriller about how the horrors of war and family secrets become the burden of future generations.

Poetic Conversations
2023-03-27 18:00 - 20:00 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) is known to have said, “A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.” Put differently, a reader’s personal response offers an added dimension to a book. In this workshop, participants will select a published poetry collection whose world resonates with them, one that includes poems they would like to “dialogue with” for the remainder of the workshop.* Weekly writing prompts will initiate a “conversation” with a chosen text from their book, an opportunity to engage with the source material on a deeper level. Topics covered will include imagery, line breaks, and poetic language, and we will attempt a variety of poetic forms. Roughly half of each session will be devoted to theoretical concerns and/or writing exercises; the second half to workshopping the pieces produced in class and tweaked at home. Aside from the selected poetry book, no texts are required, but participants are strongly encouraged to read poetry and/or essays on poetics outside class time and share materials/information that might be of interest to the group.

*A list of suggested poets and/or titles will be provided after the first class, upon request.

Author of nine poetry books and an award-winning novel, Carolyn Marie Souaid has performed at literary events in Canada and abroad; her work has been featured on CBC-Radio and in a variety of national and international publications. Her videopoem, Blood is Blood, won a top prize at the 2012 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin. Other books have been shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Carolyn has been guest faculty at Bishop’s University and has led several previous QWF workshops. Her literary papers are housed at Rare Books and Special Collections of the McLennan Library (McGill University).

Picture Book Spyglass: Writing through the Lens of Children’s and YA Literature
2023-03-27 20:00 - 22:00 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Why every writer should know picture books: in this workshop, emerging and experienced writers will return to the source and hone their skills through a selection of outstanding picture books. We will learn wisdom, gain inspiration, and rediscover the joy of word-sounds and word play. We’ll find eye-popping object lessons in voice, character, plot, and surprise—while renewing our delight in language.

Be prepared to articulate your own writing goals for this session to receive personalized prompts. Or feel free to just explore, through collaborative and individual writing time and assignments. Whether you are casting for new reveries, or seeking to push forward on a particular project, let the concise brilliance of picture books light your way.

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Raquel Rivera is a two-time winner of the QWF Prize for Children’s and YA Literature; her books were selected for CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens (starred selection), USBBY Outstanding International Books (Grades 3-5), Quill & Quire’s “Best of 2007” (Children’s), and more.

Raquel has lived and worked in Washington DC, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Barcelona, and Toronto (where she was born and raised as a first-generation Canadian). These experiences, and her own mixed heritage, engender her deep interest in history, culture, social roles, and norms. Cultures in cooperation is the theme that runs through her writing.

The Joys and Pitfalls of Memoir
2023-03-28 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-29 18:00 - 20:00 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
This workshop will explore the hazards and rewards of writing a personal memoir. Throughout the eight weeks, we will look at ways to produce a compelling narrative out of the chaos of the past. We’ll discuss the tremendous value of research, but we’ll also consider whether research can sometimes handicap a project. We will explore the creation of a narrative voice. And we will ask if and how a writer knows that a memoir has achieved its ideal focus and shape.

Each participant will be expected to produce one or two finished (or near-finished) pieces of writing. They could be either stand-alone essays or excerpts from a longer work. I will provide a detailed response to these pieces, and other participants in the workshop will be asked to give their feedback too. A good portion of time each week will be spent on a discussion of the work submitted by participants. Throughout the workshops, I plan to emphasize the crucial importance not just of remembering but of rethinking and rewriting.

In the remainder of each session, we will examine and debate issues that memoir-writing brings to the fore. We will delve into some thorny issues that memoirs often raise: the unreliability of memory, an author’s urge to justify, and the sense of hurt and betrayal that a memoir may provoke in other people. I will ask the participants to read selected materials (none of them too lengthy) as a basis for discussion.

“Memoir,” for the purposes of this workshop, can include small-scale personal essays as well as longer, more ambitious texts. The participants may choose to focus on a particular relationship, place, or time. But the pieces they submit for discussion should all be personal in nature, and unless there are unusual reasons to the contrary, they should make use of the first-person pronoun. Memoir can be a demanding form; it allows the author no place to hide. Yet it can be immensely rewarding to write.

The overall aim is to equip participants with more awareness, more skills, and more confidence in their own work.

Deep Story Design
2023-03-28 18:00 - 20:00 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Deep Story Design depends on a divine trine of three elements: character, plot, and theme.

Novelists, screenwriters, and memoirists who learn to harmonize these elements are able to create stories with depth and resonance.

This 8-week online course is for the longer form narrative writer who wants to: create structurally sound and engaging plots; craft characters whose inner and outer conflicts captivate readers; and develop impactful themes that linger after the story is over.

Using April’s Deep Story Design method of combining basic three-act structure, the seven stepping stones that uphold a narrative arc, and the four stages of authentic character development, writers will be guided to create a cohesive story that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Weekly lessons, homework assignments, and in-class exercises and conversations will focus on the essential story elements that need to be in place to ensure a compelling and meaningful narrative.

Note: Handouts will be provided digitally. Live weekly Zoom calls will be recorded and available for review for up to two weeks after the workshop finishes. Homework assignments, shared with and reviewed by participants, will receive light feedback from April during class time.

April Bosshard has been called a “story whisperer” and “story genie” for her keen awareness of story principles and deep understanding of the writer’s craft, which allows her to help writers deal with the complex issues of story-creating and sticking to the writing process. She’s led workshops in Canada, the US, France, and Mexico, including at the internationally recognized San Miguel Writers Conference. She’s written novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction essays for traditional and independent markets, which include publications in the US, UK, and Canada. Most recently, she contributed a chapter to the newly released The Great Book of Journaling, How Journal Writing Can Support a Life of Wellness, Creativity, Meaning, and Purpose, (Conari, June 2022). April develops and maintains online courses and writing programs while also working with individual clients as a writing coach and developmental editor.

Tell Your Story as a Graphic Novel!
2023-03-28 20:00 - 22:00 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
You don’t need to be an artist to enjoy this graphic novel workshop. All you need is a story you want to tell and the courage to put it down on paper. Drawings can be formal and detailed or simple and expressive. Comic making bridges storytelling and picture making, and this workshop will explore both. Through dynamic exercises that combine simple drawing experiments and story brainstorming, each participant will develop their own personal style and hone the story they wish to tell.

People will share their work and give feedback on each other’s pieces and end the workshop with a comic of their own!

Kate Lavut is the author and illustrator of the graphic novel Chico, a true tale of the time she dressed as a boy, jumped on a bus, and went to Mexico. Chico was featured at TCAF, Toronto Comics Arts Festival, and was a finalist for the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Lavut has recently produced her play A Little Bit Pregnant at Fringe Montreal and was a finalist for the Most Promising Emerging Artist award. She is currently at work on a new graphic novel, about her experience having breast cancer, called Content Removed.

SpeakUp
2023-03-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Quebec
FREE EVENT
SpeakUp
The Montreal Inter-Active Poetry Exchange
Poets : IF THE POET, Simon Occulis
A POETRY READING WITH A DIFFERENCE: AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT
Each audience member receives a copy of the poems.
Poet reads their poem, first in the original version, and then in translation, followed by 15 to 20-minute discussion.
Poet reads their poem a final time.
Visit our Facebook page for more details or contact us: MTLSpeakUp@gmail.com

QWF Schmoozer with the Crime Writers of Canada
2023-03-31 16:00 - 18:00 | Atwater Library Auditorium, 1200 Atwater Avenue, 2nd floor, Westmount, QC
Quebec Writers’ Federation and Crime Writers of Canada invite you to a joint presentation and networking event on Friday March 31, from 4-6pm at the Adair Auditorium, Atwater Library.

Crime writing includes several different genres. The event will begin with a short talk featuring four representative crime writers reading excerpts from their work and discussing the differences between the various types of crime writing. Featured writers are:

Michael Kent (Detective Novels)

Ann Lambert (Suspense)

Russell Fralich (Thriller)

Anne Fotheringham (Cozy/Woman Sleuth Mysteries)

Following the presentation, there will be an opportunity for socializing and mystery-themed games. Light refreshments will be served, and panelists’ books will be available for purchase at the venue.

This event is free for all; we encourage writers of all skill level with an interest in crime writing to come learn, mingle, and have fun! Feel free to bring a friend. We do request that you RSVP below so we can appropriately plan refreshments for the day.

Crime thriller inspired by true event: Jam Run by Russell Brooks- book launch March 31 (Int'l Transgender Day of Visibility)
2023-03-31 17:00 - 19:00 | Jamaica Association of Montreal, 4065 Jean Talon West, Montreal, Quebec, H4P1W6, Canada
Jam Run, Russell Brooks’ fifth edge-of-your-seat thriller, is set in Jamaica and is inspired by a true event that sent shockwaves around the world.
The launch is on March 31 to honour International Transgender Day of Visibility, reflecting one of the themes in the novel.
Press release below, including bio, quotes and links. Review copy of Jam Run available on request. Book launch with readings and Q&A at Jamaica Association of Montreal, hosted by author Nigel Thomas.
For all inquiries, or to interview author Russell Brooks and/or confirm attendance at the launch: Media Contact- Russell Brooks, russell@russellparkway.com, 514 815-0749
Unique Awaited Suspense Thriller Inspired by Shocking Event in Jamaica
Book Launch: Vibrant Book Readings and Q&A
Jam Run, an Eddie Barrow mystery sequel to Chill Run
Compelling crime thriller written by Russell Brooks
Hosted by author Nigel Thomas
Jamaica Association of Montreal, Fri. March 31, 5pm
A Crime Thriller as Spicy as Jamaican Jerk Sauce
Montreal, February 2023 – After touring Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto in 2022, suspense thriller author Russell Brooks returns with Jam Run—his fifth novel. Set in Jamaica, the book targets readers who love an edge-of-your-seat thriller with conspiracies, betrayal, martial arts, sex and revenge. The book launch date ties into the story, honouring International Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31, at the Jamaica Association of Montreal. The book launch is hosted by awarded author Nigel Thomas.
This strong sequel welcomes the return of Eddie Barrow, a Montreal author and amateur sleuth, and his outspoken best friend Corey Stephenson. After witnessing a savage murder while visiting Montego Bay, they both get pulled into searching for the killer. However, they wind up in the crosshairs of ruthless assassins after uncovering evidence of a larger criminal conspiracy.
Brooks’ goal was to create a crime thriller set within Afro-Caribbean culture. “Since the story is set in and around Montego Bay, making it as Jamaican as possible was important. I wanted to tell the story from Eddie Barrow’s point of view. Even though he’s Black, he sticks out like a sore thumb—especially when he has difficulty understanding the Jamaican Patois,” said Brooks. “And like Marvel’s Black Panther, it’s heavily Afrocentric, making it a unique story within its genre.”
What if crying out for help made you a target?
“Victims and witnesses of hate or sex crimes are discouraged from coming forward when social and systemic barriers exist. Unfortunately, this empowers the abusers,” said Brooks. “I’m deeply disturbed that today there is still high social acceptance of the ‘Buggery Law’ and other similar laws in the Caribbean. Targeting a community with laws that discriminate and vilify them negatively impacts society as a whole,” he added. These are some of the many roadblocks Eddie and Corey encounter in Jam Run. As a result, it complicates their attempts to get justice for the victim.
The novel is inspired by an event in Jamaica that sent shockwaves worldwide. “Jam Run is a gripping crime thriller about the ever-present menace and violence the LGBTQ community faces daily,” said Richard Burnett, Fugues Magazine columnist and Montreal journalist.
Brooks’ writing draws readers in with powerful and poetic attention to detail and heart-pounding scenes of devastating hand-to-hand encounters; the fear and fury is projected right in front of readers’ eyes.
Readers comment on JAM RUN
“Jam Run is a bold adrenaline rush that leaves you on the edge of your seat. The consummate page-turner of the year.” Julie Kindle, Key West, FL
“Once again, Brooks has drawn me into his world. A blessing to see the author’s passion for details and character development shine from the first pages.” Antonio Tolliver, Muskegon, MI
“Jam Run instantly captivates you and takes you on a ride across Jamaica. What starts as two friends hanging out soon becomes a mystery, leaving you wanting more. Another must-read by Russell Brooks.” Nate Drysdale—San Antonio, TX
“Jam Run is a fabulous thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat while you read it. I was taken from one extreme to the next, never knowing what would happen next! It left me yearning for more!” Laura Clay—Norman, OK
How visiting Montego Bay impacted Brooks’ novel, Jam Run: russellparkway.com/jamaica-mi-love/
Fun insight to Russell Brooks in this Q&A with Goodreads readers: www.goodreads.com/author/4402264.Russell_Brooks/questions
Russell Brooks is a Canadian author of Barbadian descent. Jam Run is the second book in the Eddie Barrow series and his fifth thriller, along with Pandora’s Succession, Unsavory Delicacies, Chill Run and The Demeter Code. Brooks was once an aspiring sprinter who specialized in the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay. He represented Canada at the World University Games in 1999 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. He was also on Team Quebec at the Jeux de la Francophonie in 1997 and 2001—both held in Antananarivo, Madagascar, and Ottawa, Ontario, respectively. Brooks attended Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, on a track and field scholarship. He graduated with a degree in Biology and a minor in psychology. He currently lives in Montreal.
Read chapter one of Jam Run at russellparkway.com
Celebrate the launch of the sequel of the Eddie Barrow mystery crime series
Jam Run by Russell Brooks
Readings and Q&A, Friday, March 31, 5 to 7PM
The Jamaica Association of Montreal
4065 Rue Jean-Talon West, Montreal H4P 1W6
For more information about Russell Brooks’ other works, please visit www.russellparkway.com
Meet and chat with Brooks at The Word On The Street book festival in Toronto on May 27 and 28.
Review copies of Jam Run are available on request.
If you would like to interview author Russell Brooks and/or confirm attendance at the launch: Media Contact- Russell Brooks, russell@russellparkway.com.

Shut Up & Write! with QWF
2023-04-01 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. A Zoom link will be sent out a few days before the session.

Please note as well that these sessions are designed for silent writing, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work.

1000 – 1025: Writing 11025 – 1030: Break1030 – 1055: Writing 21055 – 1100: Break1100 – 1125: Writing 31125 – 1130: Break1130 – 1155: Writing 41155 – 1200: Break1200 – 1225: Writing 5
