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SUMMARY:The Words & Music Show: Launch of Dark Sky Preserve
DESCRIPTION:Dark Sky Preserve. Turn out the lights\, shut off the web. Look up and find out how big our universe is. Ian Ferrier\, Dark Sky Preserve\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQWF invites you to the Words & Music Show on February 19. This special edition will feature the book and album launch of Dark Sky Preserve\, a collaboration between Ian Ferrier\, Louise Campbell\, and Sarah Beth Goncarova. \n\n\n\nFeatured performers include: \n\n\n\n\n\nMusic \n\n\n\n\nLouise Campbell\n\n\n\nDina Cindrić\n\n\n\nElizabeth Lima\n\n\n\nJohn Stuart\n\n\n\nJason Camlot\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpoken Word \n\n\n\n\nIan Ferrier\n\n\n\nSarah Beth Goncarova\n\n\n\nRachel McCrum\n\n\n\nJason Selman\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-produced by the Quebec Writers’ Federation\, Words & Music\, and SpokenWeb. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for this project. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFree admission\n\n\n\n\nView facebook event page\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Players:\n\n\n\nJason Camlot is a poet\, songwriter\, and scholar. His lastest book of criticism is Phonopoetics. His latest book of poems is Vlarf. His latest recordings (on Spotify\, Itunes\, etc.) are JC SPED and Instantaneous Personal Magnetism. He is Professor of English at Concordia U and director of the SpokenWeb research network. \n\n\n\nLouise Campbell is a Montreal-based musician whose professional hats range from conductor to cultural mediator\, community arts facilitator to musicians’ health therapist. In addition to this book and album\, she is anticipating a solo album launch titled ‘Sources’ in the spring of 2023. For more information\, see louisecampbell.ca. Louise has visited Dark Sky Preserves in four provinces across Canada. \n\n\n\nDina Cindrić is a vocalist\, multi-instrumentalist\, piano teacher and vocal workshop leader. She has performed at festivals across Canada and Europe with a number of ensembles and has been teaching music for over 20 years. She currently teaches Balkan singing at the Centre des Musiciens du Monde\, and leads the RECAA Choir and female Balkan singing group Sava\, in Montreal. \n\n\n\nIan Ferrier has spoken and played in over 500 shows in Canada\, United States\, and Europe. He is also the founder and curator of the audio literature label Wired on Words\, of Montreal’s monthly Words and Music Show (now in its 23rd year) and the annual Mile End Poet’s Festival. He has won a Golden Beret Award from the League of Canadian Poets for his outstanding contributions to spoken word poetry\, and in 2022\, the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s Judy Mappin Community Award\, for his contributions to the literature community in Montreal. \n\n\n\nSarah Beth (SB) Goncarova is a writer\, graphic designer\, screenwriter\, children’s book writer\, animator and performer. She is also the director of Clay Grouse Press\, creator of award-winning art-poetry books\, and Clay Grouse Kids\, which specializes in books\, musical audiobooks and animations for young readers. For her visual art\, she has been the grant recipient of the Puffin Foundation and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund\, and her work can be found in the Archive of Digital Art\, Danube University\, Austria\, PS1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center Digital Archive\, The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art\, the Brooklyn Museum\, the Brooklyn Art Library\, and Rutgers University Special Collections. \n\n\n\nElizabeth Lima is a vocalist\, clarinettist\, improviser\, performer and composer working in a full range of genres. She presents her work in a number of musical and multi-disciplinary performances that include theatre\, poetry and visual arts. She is currently working on her solo staged performance “Lyrebird Hotel”. \n\n\n\nRachel McCrum is a poet\, performer\, event organiser\, and workshop facilitator. Originally from Northern Ireland\, she lived in Edinburgh\, Scotland between 2010 and 2016\, where she was the first BBC Scotland Poet in Residence and recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. She is the editor of Font magazine. Her debut collection The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate was published in a bilingual edition with Mémoire d’encrier in Fall 2020.’ \n\n\n\nJason “Blackbird” Selman is a Montreal born poet\, trumpet player and communityworker. He is the author The Freedom I Stole (2007\, Cumulus Press)\, Africa As ADream That Travels Through My Heart (2016\, Howl) and co-editor of the poetryanthology Talking Book (2006\, Cumulus Press) which chronicles the writings ofKalm Unity Vibe Collective (of which he is a founding member). \n\n\n\nJohn “Triangles” Stuart works at Concordia University and spends his spare time taking photos and playing music in the Mile End. He plays with Ian Ferrier and The Magic Cookie Orchestra who have an album due in the near future. \n\n\n\n\nView facebook event page
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-words-music-show-launch-of-dark-sky-preserve/
LOCATION:les sans-taverne\, 1900 rue Le Ber\, suite 101\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3K 2A4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Words and Music
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SUMMARY:Pop-Up Poetry
DESCRIPTION:The folk at yolk will be holding a pop-up poetry event at Time Out Market from 12:00–7:00PM\, where they’ll be selling merchandise\, past issues\, and personalized poems for passers-by.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/pop-up-poetry/
LOCATION:Time Out Market\, 705 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3B 4G5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF
DESCRIPTION:Looking for some dedicated\, quiet writing space? \n\n\n\nRegister 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. \n\n\n\nThis 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. \n\n\n\nPlease note as well that these sessions are designed for silent writing\, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work. \n\n\n\n1000 – 1025: Writing 11025 – 1030: Break1030 – 1055: Writing 21055 – 1100: Break1100 – 1125: Writing 31125 – 1130: Break1130 – 1155: Writing 41155 – 1200: Break1200 – 1225: Writing 5
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-19/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Community Events,QWF Events,Shut Up & Write!
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SUMMARY:Atwater Library Lunchtime with: Marc Raboy
DESCRIPTION:IN PERSON AND BY ZOOM: For the Atwater Library Lunchtime Series\, author Marc Raboy gives a presentation on his book Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel\, winner of the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s 2022 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction.To REGISTER and get the Zoom link\, click here.Registration is not required for in-person attendance.Free admission and everyone is welcome.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/atwater-library-lunchtime-with-marc-raboy/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Reading
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SUMMARY:Banff Centre | Late Winter Writers Residency Online 2023
DESCRIPTION:This two week online residency provides broad thematic teaching from faculty members\, Dani Spinosa and Kate Siklosi\, Q&A sessions and workshopping. Instructors will discuss ideas\, experiences\, and obstacles that you may be encountering with your writing of both poetry and fiction. *Financial aid available. \nLearn more and apply by Nov 23:  https://bit.ly/3qBB2Kf
URL:https://qwf.org/event/banff-centre-late-winter-writers-residency-online-2023/
LOCATION:Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive\, Banff\, Alberta\, T1L 1H5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Illuminated Grant Writing
DESCRIPTION:This series of four workshops will examine how writers with projects for print\, spoken word\, or storytelling can make a strong literary arts grant application. From drafting a project description to balancing a budget\, we will also discuss artistic risk\, impact and cultural appropriation. Focus will be on funding programs at the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and an arts council program officer will join us to answer questions. This series is intended for Quebec-based writers at all stages of their practice: emerging\, mid-career\, or established. There will be tasks to complete between sessions and participants must have an original literary arts project in mind. \n\n\n\nAccess to MS Word or similar writing software will be necessary as well as a willingness to share work\, and give and receive feedback in a workshop setting. \n\n\n\nTawhida Tanya Evanson is a poet\, author\, multidisciplinary artist and producer. Her two poetry collections are Bothism (Ekstasis 2017) and Nouveau Griot (Frontenac 2018)\, and her debut novel Book of Wings (Véhicule 2021) won the 2022 New Contribution Literary Prize\, was on the 2022 CBC Canads Reads Longlist\, and was one of Quill & Quire’s 2021 Books of the Year. With a 25-year practice in spoken word\, she has performed in over a dozen countries and released several studio albums and videopoems including the award-winning Almost Forgot my Bones. In 2013\, she was Poet of Honour at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and received the Golden Beret Award for her contribution to the genre. Director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word residency and VP of The Quebec Writers’ Federation\, she is at work on an Afrofuturist film premiering in spring 2023 and a French translation of her novel. She moonlights as a whirling dervish.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/illuminated-grant-writing-3/2023-02-04/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:A Literary Conversation with Baharan Baniahmadi
DESCRIPTION:With Baharan BaniahmadiHosted by Shelley PomeranceIn collaboration with QWF \n\n\n\nJoin author Baharan Baniahmadi for a discussion about her book Prophetess\, winner of the QWF’s 2022 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Prophetess is an unflinching allegorical novel that explores trauma\, women’s rights\, and religious tradition in Iran.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/a-literary-conversation-with-baharan-baniahmadi/
LOCATION:Westmount Public Library\, 4626 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1G1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Events
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: Muslim Awareness Week
DESCRIPTION:Free\, in-person event. \n\n\n\nThe Quebec Writers’ Federation and Muslim Awareness Week (MAW—2023) invite you to a special panel featuring authors Toula Drimonis and Ehab Lotayef in conversation with Montreal Gazette columnist Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed. Featuring Guest of Honour Frank Baylis\, M.P. \n\n\n\n\nView on Facebook\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFariha Naqvi-Mohamed is a television and print journalist and the founder and editor-in-chief of CanadianMomEh\, the number one diversity blog in Canada. Fariha made history as the first woman to wear the hijab on Quebec television in her role as a video journalist for CityNews Montreal.  \n\n\n\nToula Drimonis is a Montreal-based opinion columnist\, news producer and writer\, with a focus on politics\, social justice\, immigration\, and women’s issues. In 2022 she published her first book\, We\, the Others: Allophones\, Immigrants\, and Belonging in Canada. \n\n\n\nEhab Lotayef is a Canadian poet\, writer\, community activist\, and IT Manager of Egyptian origin. As a poet and writer\, Ehab published a bilingual poetry collection\, To Love a Palestinian Woman in 2010. His play\, Crossing Gibraltar\, was produced by the CBC in 2006. \n\n\n\nFrank Baylis is a professional engineer\, business entrepreneur\, film producer\, and former Parliamentarian. He is well known for his leadership in promoting equality and fair treatment for all Canadians. As a Member of Parliament\, Frank was a founding member of the Parliamentary Black Caucus\, which develops constructive community policies and works to address systemic\, anti-black racism.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-muslim-awareness-week/
LOCATION:Atwater Library Auditorium\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, 2nd floor\, Westmount\, QC
CATEGORIES:QWF Events,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:Illuminated Grant Writing
DESCRIPTION:This series of four workshops will examine how writers with projects for print\, spoken word\, or storytelling can make a strong literary arts grant application. From drafting a project description to balancing a budget\, we will also discuss artistic risk\, impact and cultural appropriation. Focus will be on funding programs at the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and an arts council program officer will join us to answer questions. This series is intended for Quebec-based writers at all stages of their practice: emerging\, mid-career\, or established. There will be tasks to complete between sessions and participants must have an original literary arts project in mind. \n\n\n\nAccess to MS Word or similar writing software will be necessary as well as a willingness to share work\, and give and receive feedback in a workshop setting. \n\n\n\nTawhida Tanya Evanson is a poet\, author\, multidisciplinary artist and producer. Her two poetry collections are Bothism (Ekstasis 2017) and Nouveau Griot (Frontenac 2018)\, and her debut novel Book of Wings (Véhicule 2021) won the 2022 New Contribution Literary Prize\, was on the 2022 CBC Canads Reads Longlist\, and was one of Quill & Quire’s 2021 Books of the Year. With a 25-year practice in spoken word\, she has performed in over a dozen countries and released several studio albums and videopoems including the award-winning Almost Forgot my Bones. In 2013\, she was Poet of Honour at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and received the Golden Beret Award for her contribution to the genre. Director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word residency and VP of The Quebec Writers’ Federation\, she is at work on an Afrofuturist film premiering in spring 2023 and a French translation of her novel. She moonlights as a whirling dervish.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/illuminated-grant-writing-3/2023-01-28/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Write Here\, Write Now -- New Anthology Competition
DESCRIPTION:Come and join us on Sunday 22nd January\, at 1.30pm\, for the Zoom launch of our new book anthology competition.  \nWrite Here\, Write Now is seeking submissions of short work in any genre and on any theme. The deadline is April 11th\, 2023\, and those accepted will be published in a paperback and ebook format in September 2023. \nAt the Zoom launch\, you will have the opportunity to find out more about the competition\, get information on the submission details\, meet the editorial board\, and ask any questions you may have about the project.  \nAbout the anthology editor:\nRebecca Welton is a writer and editor. She was shortlisted for the Fresher Prize in short stories\, and currently runs creative writing workshops for WHWN and BULLA. She is the editor of Hope and Resilience in the Time of Covid\, an anthology of community writing and artistry. Rebecca is both a developmental editor and a qualified copyeditor. She works with writers to craft their work into the best version possible. \nWrite Here\, Write Now is supported by Bishop’s University Lifelong Learning Academy. \nBishop’s University is located on the Traditional and Unceded Territory of the Abenaki People.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/write-here-write-now-new-anthology-competition/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP
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SUMMARY:Book Publishing Explained for Writers
DESCRIPTION:This is the first of two workshops to be offered in 2023 on the theme of getting published. Watch for a longer interactive workshop in the fall. \n\n\n\nA veteran of Canada’s book industry will demystify how the publishing process works\, from acquisitions to the finished product to how books get into the market. He will explain the importance of the pitch letter in finding a publisher or agent\, why hitting deadlines is paramount to successful publishing\, and the dual roles of the marketing department and the author’s input in creating a bestseller. He will also share his thoughts on literary agents—and how to find a publisher without one—in a nuts and bolts seminar on the arcane world of book publishing.  \n\n\n\nFormer publisher of House of Anansi Press\, founding publisher of University of Regina Press\, Vice President of Marketing for Margret Atwood’s Longpen\, and Director of Marketing and Publicity at McClelland & Stewart\, Bruce Walsh has published many bestselling and award-winning books in his 30-year career. He is on the boards of Pen Canada and the Port Medway Readers Festival\, is helping to program the Lunenburg Literary Festival\, and is Vice Chair of the Disabilities Committee for the South Shore Libraries.  \n\n\n\nHe is consulting with writers and other book professionals after stepping down as publisher due to illness and can be contacted directly at Kickinghorse@live.com.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-publishing-explained-for-writers/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Illuminated Grant Writing
DESCRIPTION:This series of four workshops will examine how writers with projects for print\, spoken word\, or storytelling can make a strong literary arts grant application. From drafting a project description to balancing a budget\, we will also discuss artistic risk\, impact and cultural appropriation. Focus will be on funding programs at the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and an arts council program officer will join us to answer questions. This series is intended for Quebec-based writers at all stages of their practice: emerging\, mid-career\, or established. There will be tasks to complete between sessions and participants must have an original literary arts project in mind. \n\n\n\nAccess to MS Word or similar writing software will be necessary as well as a willingness to share work\, and give and receive feedback in a workshop setting. \n\n\n\nTawhida Tanya Evanson is a poet\, author\, multidisciplinary artist and producer. Her two poetry collections are Bothism (Ekstasis 2017) and Nouveau Griot (Frontenac 2018)\, and her debut novel Book of Wings (Véhicule 2021) won the 2022 New Contribution Literary Prize\, was on the 2022 CBC Canads Reads Longlist\, and was one of Quill & Quire’s 2021 Books of the Year. With a 25-year practice in spoken word\, she has performed in over a dozen countries and released several studio albums and videopoems including the award-winning Almost Forgot my Bones. In 2013\, she was Poet of Honour at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and received the Golden Beret Award for her contribution to the genre. Director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word residency and VP of The Quebec Writers’ Federation\, she is at work on an Afrofuturist film premiering in spring 2023 and a French translation of her novel. She moonlights as a whirling dervish.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/illuminated-grant-writing-3/2023-01-21/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Winter Writers Retreat 2023 | Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
DESCRIPTION:The Winter Writers Retreat is a self-directed program that offers time and space for writers to retreat\, reconnect\, and re-energize their writing practice. In addition to a single room\, and a small private studio\, you will be surrounded by a community of artistic peers with the opportunity to attend inspiring talks\, performances\, and meet with guest faculty to consult on your work. \nWhat does the program offer?\nThis self-directed residency offers the opportunity to work away from the constraints of everyday life. Delve deep into your creative project and take advantage of the artistic community of your peers around you. This program provides opportunities for consultations with mentors\, and optional group sessions led by guest mentors that allow writers to explore literary tools\, aspects\, and devices that you may find useful in your practice. You may also sign up for additional walks and day trips within Banff National Park as well as campus-wide activities organized by our Participant Resources team. \nThis 13-day residency provides thematic teaching from faculty members\, Q&A sessions\, public events\, and one-on-one workshopping. Instructors will discuss ideas\, experiences\, and obstacles that participants may be encountering with their writing across genre. This flexible program allows you to choose the amount of support you are looking for. All program elements are optional.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/winter-writers-retreat-2023-banff-centre-for-arts-and-creativity-2/
LOCATION:Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive\, Banff\, Alberta\, T1L 1H5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Winter Writers Retreat 2023 | Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
DESCRIPTION:The Winter Writers Retreat is a self-directed program that offers time and space for writers to retreat\, reconnect\, and re-energize their writing practice. In addition to a single room\, and a small private studio\, you will be surrounded by a community of artistic peers with the opportunity to attend inspiring talks\, performances\, and meet with guest faculty to consult on your work. \nWhat does the program offer?\nThis self-directed residency offers the opportunity to work away from the constraints of everyday life. Delve deep into your creative project and take advantage of the artistic community of your peers around you. This program provides opportunities for consultations with mentors\, and optional group sessions led by guest mentors that allow writers to explore literary tools\, aspects\, and devices that you may find useful in your practice. You may also sign up for additional walks and day trips within Banff National Park as well as campus-wide activities organized by our Participant Resources team. \nThis 13-day residency provides thematic teaching from faculty members\, Q&A sessions\, public events\, and one-on-one workshopping. Instructors will discuss ideas\, experiences\, and obstacles that participants may be encountering with their writing across genre. This flexible program allows you to choose the amount of support you are looking for. All program elements are optional. \nWho should apply?\nWe welcome writers from all backgrounds\, and all gender identities and expressions. Writers in all creative genres are invited to apply. The program is designed for emerging and established writers with a proven publication record seeking a period of dedicated time to work on a project in any genre. \nWinter Writers Retreat 2023 only accepts projects that are being written in English. \nThis program is not open to applicants who have taken part in a Banff Centre residency in the last year\, nor to current faculty members of any other Banff Centre programming. \nApplication Deadline: September 21\, 2022 \n*Financial Aid of 100% of tuition and 50% of food and accommodation is available for this program.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/winter-writers-retreat-2023-banff-centre-for-arts-and-creativity/
LOCATION:Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive\, Banff\, Alberta\, T1L 1H5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Illuminated Grant Writing
DESCRIPTION:This series of four workshops will examine how writers with projects for print\, spoken word\, or storytelling can make a strong literary arts grant application. From drafting a project description to balancing a budget\, we will also discuss artistic risk\, impact and cultural appropriation. Focus will be on funding programs at the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and an arts council program officer will join us to answer questions. This series is intended for Quebec-based writers at all stages of their practice: emerging\, mid-career\, or established. There will be tasks to complete between sessions and participants must have an original literary arts project in mind. \n\n\n\nAccess to MS Word or similar writing software will be necessary as well as a willingness to share work\, and give and receive feedback in a workshop setting. \n\n\n\nTawhida Tanya Evanson is a poet\, author\, multidisciplinary artist and producer. Her two poetry collections are Bothism (Ekstasis 2017) and Nouveau Griot (Frontenac 2018)\, and her debut novel Book of Wings (Véhicule 2021) won the 2022 New Contribution Literary Prize\, was on the 2022 CBC Canads Reads Longlist\, and was one of Quill & Quire’s 2021 Books of the Year. With a 25-year practice in spoken word\, she has performed in over a dozen countries and released several studio albums and videopoems including the award-winning Almost Forgot my Bones. In 2013\, she was Poet of Honour at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and received the Golden Beret Award for her contribution to the genre. Director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word residency and VP of The Quebec Writers’ Federation\, she is at work on an Afrofuturist film premiering in spring 2023 and a French translation of her novel. She moonlights as a whirling dervish.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/illuminated-grant-writing-3/2023-01-14/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230113T200000
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SUMMARY:Confabulation presents: The Shortest Story XIII
DESCRIPTION:Our annual 2-minute story tradition continues. True stories\, as quick as we can tell them.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/confabulation-presents-the-shortest-story-xiii/
LOCATION:Centaur Theatre\, 453 St. Francois-Xavier\, Montreal\, Quebec\, HZY 2T1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance,Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221214T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221214T160000
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SUMMARY:Holiday Book Giveaway
DESCRIPTION:The Quebec Writers’ Federation is hosting a holiday get-together and book giveaway! \n\n\n\nStop by the QWF office for a friendly chat in the company of good friends and good books. QWF members get to take three free books (while supplies last). Non-members can come register and also get three free books. Bring your friends and/or family!Light refreshments will be available. \n\n\n\nWhere: Atwater Library\, Room 3 (upstairs).When: Wednesday\, Dec 14\, 11am-4pm \n\n\n\nNote: Wearing a mask is strongly encouraged and appreciated when not eating/drinking.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/holiday-book-giveaway/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Member Meetup,QWF Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T200000
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SUMMARY:The Art of the Short Story
DESCRIPTION:Open to all. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants. \n\n\n\nWe plan to hold this workshop in person at the QWF office\, with up to two virtual slots available for people who are unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it\, this workshop may transition to a purely online model. \n\n\n\nOpen to writers of all levels\, this 10-week workshop is an investigation of the modern short story. What exactly is a story? What distinguishes it from an anecdote\, or a lie?  Most of us recognize a good one when we meet it on the page. It moves us\, often unexpectedly\, to laughter or tears. And it marks us\, reaching inside us and shifting\, sometimes subtly and other times with a jolt\, our views about ourselves and the world. The best stories articulate truths that we hadn’t\, until the moment of reading\, thought to put into words. \n\n\n\nThere is no set of rules for how to write a good story.  Each writer has to find their own way\, and each story demands fresh experiments. Writing is like living. It requires close listening and relentless improvisation.  The best way to learn how to write a good story is to read one. In this workshop\, we’ll read “In the Cart” (1897) by Anton Chekhov\, and investigate Chekhov’s views about this genre. We’ll also look at his technique: how he used elements like detail\, narrative point of view\, and speech to create a story strong enough to withstand the tests of time and translation. Over a century after Chekhov’s death\, his stories are still read and loved in places totally unlike Czarist Russia. What secrets can his work reveal to us in 21st-century Quebec? \n\n\n\nOur first four meetings will be devoted to discussing “In the Cart” (accessible online; also translated as “The Schoolmistress\,” and “A Journey by Cart”). Exercises relating to various elements of craft will be offered. The last six meetings will be reserved for workshopping our own stories and continuing the exploration of what exactly a story is\, and how to write one. \n\n\n\nClaire Holden Rothman is a Montreal writer\, translator\, and fiction editor who has published two collections of stories and three novels. The Heart Specialist (2009) was long-listed for The Scotia Bank-Giller Prize\, and My October was long-listed for the Giller and short-listed for the Governor General’s Award. Her most recent novel\, Lear’s Shadow\, was short-listed for Quebec’s 2020 Jacob Isaac Segal Award\, and won the 2019 Vine Award for Jewish Canadian Fiction. For many years\, Claire taught English literature and creative writing at Marianopolis College. She has also taught fiction workshops at McGill and Bishop’s Universities.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-art-of-the-short-story/2022-12-08/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221210T210000
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SUMMARY:The Pipeline Play Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Infinithéâtre’s annual Pipeline play reading series is back! Join us from December 7th-10th at Maison Internationale des Arts de la Marionnette (MIAM) for four FREE readings of in-development plays by Québec writers\, including this year’s Write-on-Q winner. Come check out these new and promising pieces!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-pipeline-play-reading-series/
LOCATION:La Maison Internationale des Arts de la Marionnette\, 30 Av. Saint-Just\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H2V 1X8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Festival,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T200000
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SUMMARY:Canadian Parents for French Quebec & Nunavut Virtual Cultural Event: DECEMBER | Bilingual Story Time
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a bilingual bedtime story session with children’s author\, Candace Amarante. \nAmarante will be reading Le ciel me sourit\, a short poem she wrote that metaphorically describes the lunar phases of the moon.   \nThe story-time session will be followed by an art activity\, where participants are invited to draw and share the way they see the moon. \nTarget age group: 3-6 years old \nRegister here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6y142aKIo4PCBIcAjv1NzBMUuq0fVB_MIEGuqwcuUt2s-bA/viewform
URL:https://qwf.org/event/canadian-parents-for-french-quebec-nunavut-virtual-cultural-event-december-bilingual-story-time/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T200000
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SUMMARY:Winter Solstice Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Kelly Norah Drukker\, Gabrielle McIntire\, and Carolyn Van Der Meer for an evening of poetry in Old Montreal. \n\n\n\nKelly Norah Drukker is a Montreal-based writer. Her poetry collection Small Fires (MQUP\, 2016) won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Concordia University First Book Prize\, and was a finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal. Petits feux (trans. Lori Saint-Martin\, Paul Gagné) appeared in 2018. \n\n\n\nGabrielle McIntire is Professor of English Literature at Queen’s University. Her first book of poetry\, Unbound\, was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2021. She is also the author of Modernism\, Memory\, and Desire: T.S. Elliot and Virginia Woolf (Cambridge University Press\, 2008) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land (Cambridge University Press\, 2015). \n\n\n\nCarolyne Van Der Meer is the author of four published books: Motherlode: A Mosaic of Dutch Wartime Experience (WLUP\, 2014); Journeywoman (Inanna\, 2017)\, Heart of Goodness: The Life of Marguerite Bougeoys in 30 Poems | Du coeur à l’âme : La vie de Marguerite Bourgeoys en 30 poèmes (Guernica Editions\, 2020); and Sensorial (Inanna\, 2022).
URL:https://qwf.org/event/winter-solstice-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Librairie Bertrand\, 430 Rue Saint-Pierre\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H2Y 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221205T200000
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SUMMARY:Advanced Memoir: The Second Draft
DESCRIPTION:This workshop on memoir is designed for people who have already studied at the intermediate level with Elaine Kalman Naves. Don’t be daunted by the “advanced” label. If you’ve completed an intermediate workshop with Elaine and are interested in writing\, reading\, and talking about memoir\, you are at a level to benefit from this workshop. \n\n\n\nAs of now\, we plan to host this workshop in-person at the QWF office\, with some slots open for remote participation. \n\n\n\nThough you need not be working on a book-length narrative\, you will be expected to have a specific project in mind. It can be something you were working on in a previous workshop or something entirely new. \n\n\n\nDuring the course of the eight-week workshop\, you will have the opportunity to submit a piece of up to 3000 words\, and with luck you will have a chance to present a second time. (More details about this once we get rolling.) \n\n\n\nInstead of a text\, you will have the opportunity to read some fine memoirs\, and the long lead-up to this fall workshop will give you a chance to do some advance reading. Please give priority in your summer reading to the terrific memoirs by the four writers who will be guest lecturers over the course of the session. (See below.) Once we have established who the actual workshop participants will be\, we will also supply you with a list of suggested optional works to enjoy over the course of the summer. \n\n\n\nThe emphasis will be on student input. Participants will not only be presenting their own work to the group but will also be expected to give careful reading of each other’s pieces in order to provide vital critical feedback. This element of the program is equally important to the writing. As in the past there will also be in-class exercises and discussion of topics of writerly interest. In a new departure\, we will start critiquing participants’ pieces at the very first session. Participants who volunteer to present early in the session will be much appreciated! Getting a head start will make it possible to present second drafts. Again\, we will work out these details ahead of time once the class list is established. \n\n\n\nHere are the names of the guest lecturers and their respective titles: \n\n\n\nMark Abley\, The Organist \n\n\n\nLinda Leith\, The Girl from Dream City \n\n\n\nHarriet Alida Lye\, Natural Killer \n\n\n\nRobyn Sarah\, Music\, Late and Soon \n\n\n\nAnd please don’t forget that William Zinsser’s On Writing Well is useful to have as a reference at your fingertips! \n\n\n\nTo apply\, please send the following to riley@qwf.org no later than July 6\, 2022. \n\n\n\nA 3- to 5-page double-spaced writing sample (nonfiction or fiction) that you feel is representative of your abilities.A paragraph or two outlining the writing project you plan to pursue in the workshop.\n\n\n\nElaine Kalman Naves is a long-time literary journalist and the author of seven non-fiction titles\, and of a novel.  She is a two-time recipient of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction\, the winner of two Canadian Jewish Book Awards\, and of a Canadian Literary Award for Personal Essay. Her memoir Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family has been made into a documentary film. Elaine’s novel\, The Book of Faith\, was nominated for the Leacock Prize for Humour. She has led workshops at the QWF since their inception in 1998.  To find out more about Elaine\, visit her website athttp://www.elainekalmannaves.com/
URL:https://qwf.org/event/advanced-memoir-the-second-draft/2022-12-05/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221204T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221204T170000
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SUMMARY:The Annual "Write Here\, Write Now" December Reading
DESCRIPTION:The last few years have not been kind—many of us feel there is too much darkness in the world. Our poetry and prose cannot be as boisterous a celebration of the upcoming holidays as in previous seasons. \nFor the 2022 edition of their annual December reading\, Write Here\, Write Now members present more pensive and nostalgic pieces—but that does not mean the mood will include no leavening. There is joy and hope to be found even in the heart of darkness. \nThe last poem of the day is a WHWN standard that captures the whimsy of a child’s vision of the festive season. Everyone is most welcome! \nWrite Here\, Write Now is supported by Bishop’s University Lifelong Learning Academy.\nBishop’s University is located on the Traditional and Unceded Territory of the Abenaki People.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-annual-write-here-write-now-december-reading/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Reading
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221201T200000
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SUMMARY:The Art of the Short Story
DESCRIPTION:Open to all. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants. \n\n\n\nWe plan to hold this workshop in person at the QWF office\, with up to two virtual slots available for people who are unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it\, this workshop may transition to a purely online model. \n\n\n\nOpen to writers of all levels\, this 10-week workshop is an investigation of the modern short story. What exactly is a story? What distinguishes it from an anecdote\, or a lie?  Most of us recognize a good one when we meet it on the page. It moves us\, often unexpectedly\, to laughter or tears. And it marks us\, reaching inside us and shifting\, sometimes subtly and other times with a jolt\, our views about ourselves and the world. The best stories articulate truths that we hadn’t\, until the moment of reading\, thought to put into words. \n\n\n\nThere is no set of rules for how to write a good story.  Each writer has to find their own way\, and each story demands fresh experiments. Writing is like living. It requires close listening and relentless improvisation.  The best way to learn how to write a good story is to read one. In this workshop\, we’ll read “In the Cart” (1897) by Anton Chekhov\, and investigate Chekhov’s views about this genre. We’ll also look at his technique: how he used elements like detail\, narrative point of view\, and speech to create a story strong enough to withstand the tests of time and translation. Over a century after Chekhov’s death\, his stories are still read and loved in places totally unlike Czarist Russia. What secrets can his work reveal to us in 21st-century Quebec? \n\n\n\nOur first four meetings will be devoted to discussing “In the Cart” (accessible online; also translated as “The Schoolmistress\,” and “A Journey by Cart”). Exercises relating to various elements of craft will be offered. The last six meetings will be reserved for workshopping our own stories and continuing the exploration of what exactly a story is\, and how to write one. \n\n\n\nClaire Holden Rothman is a Montreal writer\, translator\, and fiction editor who has published two collections of stories and three novels. The Heart Specialist (2009) was long-listed for The Scotia Bank-Giller Prize\, and My October was long-listed for the Giller and short-listed for the Governor General’s Award. Her most recent novel\, Lear’s Shadow\, was short-listed for Quebec’s 2020 Jacob Isaac Segal Award\, and won the 2019 Vine Award for Jewish Canadian Fiction. For many years\, Claire taught English literature and creative writing at Marianopolis College. She has also taught fiction workshops at McGill and Bishop’s Universities.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-art-of-the-short-story/2022-12-01/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T220000
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SUMMARY:Playwriting 101: A Playwriting Intensive
DESCRIPTION:Open to all. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will be conducted via Zoom. \n\n\n\nPlaywriting is an artform about curiosity\, obsession\, energy\, entertainment\, transformation\, and illumination. It’s about inspiration\, dedication\, and practice. It’s about following your impulses and shaping those impulses; about creating a series of freedoms and constraints that focus inspiration into a text that can be used as a blueprint for performance. Unlike most other forms of writing\, a play text must leave space for other creators to bring their artistry to the work. Director\, actors\, designers and technicians eventually fill in those spaces left by the writer to transform what is on the page into a three-dimensional performance that necessitates an audience for it to be fully realized. Having written plays that have been staged throughout Canada and beyond (Stratford Festival\, Shaw Festival\, Soulpepper Theatre\, Segal Centre\, Centaur Theatre)\, Erin Shields has developed a number of exercises\, strategies and best practices to imagine\, explore\, and write plays. \n\n\n\nPlaywriting 101 is an invitation for writers of other genres to try their hand at playwriting and for playwrights to deepen their practice. Throughout this eight-week workshop\, participants will bring their own particular understanding of story\, character\, and theme to the table\, to explore how to apply those same skills to the art of playwriting. Each class will focus on one of the following dramatic elements: character\, conflict\, desire\, premise\, form\, plot\, and structure. Through conversations\, focused exercises\, and sharing work\, participants will gain an understanding of how to organically and technically write a play. The process will alternate focus each class between the micro elements (character\, dialogue) and macro elements (theme\, story structure)\, as writers gradually learn how to build the world of the play with nuanced characters. \n\n\n\nDuring these eight weeks\, participants will write. A lot. By the end of the workshop\, writers \n\n\n\nwill have a strong understanding of the basic elements of a play and how to use those elements to write their own play. \n\n\n\nErin Shields (www.erinshields.ca) is a Canadian playwright. Most of her work highlights the negation or misrepresentation of women in classical texts by adapting these stories through a feminist lens for a contemporary audience. Erin’s adaptation of Paradise Lost premiered at The Stratford Festival of Canada and won the Quebec Writers Federation Prize for Playwriting. Erin won the 2011 Governor General’s Award for her play If We Were Birds\, which premiered at Tarragon Theatre. Other theatre credits include: Jane Eyre (Citadel Theatre)\, Piaf/Dietrich (Mirvish Productions/Segal Centre)\,The Lady from the Sea (The Shaw Festival). Upcoming productions include Queen Goneril for Soulpepper Theatre and Ransacking Troy for The Stratford Festival.  \n\n\n\nFacebook: Erin Shields \n\n\n\nInstagram: shieldserin1 \n\n\n\nWebsite: www.erinshields.ca
URL:https://qwf.org/event/playwriting-101-a-playwriting-intensive/2022-11-30/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:The Art of Writing Speculative Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Open to all. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants. \n\n\n\nWe plan to hold this workshop in person at the QWF office\, with up to two virtual slots available for people who are unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it\, this workshop may transition to a purely online model. \n\n\n\nSpeculative Fiction\, a literary genre that can encompass anything from science-fiction and fantasy to magic realism\, slipstream\, alternate history\, horror\, steampunk\, fairy tales and fables\, dystopia\, and surrealism\, has been with us for as long as we’ve been telling stories. In recent years\, it has grown in importance as writing genres continue to cross and blur\, and even the most conventional writers of literary fiction experiment with speculative tools as a means to add wonder and power to their tales. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is open to both new and experienced writers\, whether of speculative fiction or of other genres. In each session of this eight-week workshop\, we will delve into a different topic and/or element of craft. The sessions will typically include a presentation\, examples from the work of experienced writers\, an in-depth\, participative discussion\, and a hands-on exercise. In addition\, each participant will have the opportunity to present their own work of speculative fiction—be it a short story or an excerpt from something longer—for detailed discussion and feedback. There will be clear ground rules for workshopping that are designed to ensure that our discussions remain constructive and respectful at all times. \n\n\n\nSome of the topics that the workshop will cover include: \n\n\n\nWhat is speculative fiction and what distinguishes it from other types of fiction? What are its special powers and challenges?Questions of content and your story’s four limbs: idea\, world\, character\, plot;Questions of structure and your story’s bones: point-of-view and narration\, chronology\, tense\, tone;Special focus on world-building;Special focus on character-building\, voice\, and dialogue;What kind of story are you writing? What are you trying to say?How to edit and improve your speculative fiction and prepare it for publication.\n\n\n\nSu J  Sokol is a social rights advocate and a writer of speculative and interstitial fiction. Originally from Brooklyn\, xe now resides in Montréal. Sokol is the author of Cycling to Asylum (2014)\, long-listed for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic; Run J Run  (2019); and Zee (2020)\, finalist for the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Sokol’s short work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies. This summer\, Sokol’s debut novel was translated into French and published under the title Les lignes invisibles by VLB Imaginaire.  Check out Sokol’s website at www.sujsokol.com \n\n\n\nFacebook: cyclingtoasylum \n\n\n\nInstagram: cycling2asylum \n\n\n\nTwitter: cyclingtoasylum
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-art-of-writing-speculative-fiction/2022-11-29/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:(Un)broken: Leveraging the Poetic Line
DESCRIPTION:Open to all. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants. \n\n\n\nWe plan to hold this workshop in person at the QWF office\, with up to two virtual slots available for people who are unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it\, this workshop may transition to a purely online model. \n\n\n\nWith few exceptions\, poets have access to one tool that other writers do not: the line. A defining feature of its genre\, the poetic line plays many roles in shaping a poem’s character. The line can serve simultaneously as pacing device\, secondary grammar\, image container\, rhythm driver\, and spotlight for sound. \n\n\n\nIn contemporary free verse\, attention is often paid to breaking the line. While valuable\, this thinking locates a line’s gravitational pull largely at its end\, sometimes excluding other possibilities. Lines\, after all\, are made as well as broken. And through this making\, a poem’s fingerprint takes shape. \n\n\n\nThis generative poetry workshop offers poets of all levels the chance to develop a broader and more nuanced understanding of how poems derive power from the line’s possibilities—including\, but also extending beyond\, its breaking. We’ll consider first lines\, line integrity\, flavours of enjambment\, and the line as both sound-vessel and gloss. We’ll also reflect on what happens between lines by thinking about juxtaposition\, stanza\, and pacing. \n\n\n\nOverall\, the goal is to support participants in enhancing their free verse at the line level as they generate new work. Participants can expect to draft four to six new poems and have at least one poem workshopped by the group. Early sessions will involve generative writing prompts and craft discussions\, while later sessions will focus on workshopping. To anchor our craft discussions\, we’ll look at work from a variety of contemporary poets. Writers should bring one of their own poems to the first session as a way of introducing themselves and their work. \n\n\n\nSarah Wolfson is the author of A Common Name for Everything\, which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Canadian and American journals such as The Walrus\, The Fiddlehead\, TriQuarterly\, Prairie Fire\, CV2\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, and PRISM international. Her work has earned notable mention in Best Canadian Poetry and funding from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. Originally from Vermont\, she now lives in Montreal\, where she teaches writing at McGill University. \n\n\n\n@SarahWolfson1 (Twitter) \n\n\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/sarah.wolfson.14 (Facebook)
URL:https://qwf.org/event/unbroken-leveraging-the-poetic-line/2022-11-29/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Writing About Trauma (Without Being Super Annoying)
DESCRIPTION:Open to all. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants \n\n\n\nWe plan to hold this workshop in person at the QWF office\, with up to two virtual slots available for people who are unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it\, this workshop may transition to a purely online model.  \n\n\n\nThere was a time when bad things would happen to me\, and I would be like\, this is so terrible\, my life is so awful. Then\, I became a writer. Now\, when bad things happen to me\, I think: this kind of thing is so awful… for people who are not writers. This is going to make such a good essay. \n\n\n\nBeing a writer is a superpower. Writers are often uniquely sensitive\, which can make us vulnerable — but that sensitivity\, when channelled appropriately\, can turn into our greatest strength. When we learn to transmute our challenging\, painful\, and even traumatic experiences into art\, we learn a very real kind of invulnerability: a capacity to spin agony into gold\, a way in which we are always safe\, always on top\, and can always have the last word. At its best\, this skill can allow us to wrest power back from our worst experiences and literally pave a road to fame\, fortune\, healing\, and transcendence. There are\, however\, a few essential skills we must learn along the way. \n\n\n\nIn this eight-week workshop\, Montreal-based poet and nonfiction writer Tara McGowan-Ross will take the participants on a journey through their shadows\, mistakes\, betrayals\, and heartbreaks\, towards the end of creating a powerful and transformative piece of work. She will cover subjects ranging from basic critical thinking and how to apply it\, to how to create a safe container for your difficult feelings\, to the ethics of writing nonfiction\, which inevitably includes other people with opinions and boundaries — to injecting the kind of skill\, humour\, and humanity required of a work so that it may avoid the most common pitfall of writing trauma narratives: being\, like\, super annoying. \n\n\n\nTara McGowan-Ross is an urban Mi’kmaw multidisciplinary artist and writer. She graduated from Concordia University’s philosophy program with a minor in Creative Writing in 2016. She is the author of poetry collections Girth and Scorpion Season\, and the memoir Nothing Will Be Different. She has served on numerous editorial boards\, including Goose Lane’s Icehouse imprint\, and has been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry and Anthologie de la poésie actuelle des femmes au Québec. She lives in Montreal\, where she is a theatre critic\, a rebel educator\, a Substack columnist\, and the host of Drawn & Quarterly’s Indigenous Literatures Book Club. \n\n\n\ngirthgirl.ca \n\n\n\ntaramcgowanross.substack.com \n\n\n\n@girthgirl (Instagram/Twitter)
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-about-trauma-without-being-super-annoying/2022-11-28/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Advanced Memoir: The Second Draft
DESCRIPTION:This workshop on memoir is designed for people who have already studied at the intermediate level with Elaine Kalman Naves. Don’t be daunted by the “advanced” label. If you’ve completed an intermediate workshop with Elaine and are interested in writing\, reading\, and talking about memoir\, you are at a level to benefit from this workshop. \n\n\n\nAs of now\, we plan to host this workshop in-person at the QWF office\, with some slots open for remote participation. \n\n\n\nThough you need not be working on a book-length narrative\, you will be expected to have a specific project in mind. It can be something you were working on in a previous workshop or something entirely new. \n\n\n\nDuring the course of the eight-week workshop\, you will have the opportunity to submit a piece of up to 3000 words\, and with luck you will have a chance to present a second time. (More details about this once we get rolling.) \n\n\n\nInstead of a text\, you will have the opportunity to read some fine memoirs\, and the long lead-up to this fall workshop will give you a chance to do some advance reading. Please give priority in your summer reading to the terrific memoirs by the four writers who will be guest lecturers over the course of the session. (See below.) Once we have established who the actual workshop participants will be\, we will also supply you with a list of suggested optional works to enjoy over the course of the summer. \n\n\n\nThe emphasis will be on student input. Participants will not only be presenting their own work to the group but will also be expected to give careful reading of each other’s pieces in order to provide vital critical feedback. This element of the program is equally important to the writing. As in the past there will also be in-class exercises and discussion of topics of writerly interest. In a new departure\, we will start critiquing participants’ pieces at the very first session. Participants who volunteer to present early in the session will be much appreciated! Getting a head start will make it possible to present second drafts. Again\, we will work out these details ahead of time once the class list is established. \n\n\n\nHere are the names of the guest lecturers and their respective titles: \n\n\n\nMark Abley\, The Organist \n\n\n\nLinda Leith\, The Girl from Dream City \n\n\n\nHarriet Alida Lye\, Natural Killer \n\n\n\nRobyn Sarah\, Music\, Late and Soon \n\n\n\nAnd please don’t forget that William Zinsser’s On Writing Well is useful to have as a reference at your fingertips! \n\n\n\nTo apply\, please send the following to riley@qwf.org no later than July 6\, 2022. \n\n\n\nA 3- to 5-page double-spaced writing sample (nonfiction or fiction) that you feel is representative of your abilities.A paragraph or two outlining the writing project you plan to pursue in the workshop.\n\n\n\nElaine Kalman Naves is a long-time literary journalist and the author of seven non-fiction titles\, and of a novel.  She is a two-time recipient of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction\, the winner of two Canadian Jewish Book Awards\, and of a Canadian Literary Award for Personal Essay. Her memoir Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family has been made into a documentary film. Elaine’s novel\, The Book of Faith\, was nominated for the Leacock Prize for Humour. She has led workshops at the QWF since their inception in 1998.  To find out more about Elaine\, visit her website athttp://www.elainekalmannaves.com/
URL:https://qwf.org/event/advanced-memoir-the-second-draft/2022-11-28/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Translating English Quebec
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel discussion with English-to-French translators and the authors of the original books on the importance of translating English Quebec literature into French\, the challenges of the translation process\, and the influence of the two literatures on each other. \n\n\n\nHost: \n\n\n\nAntoine Tanguay\, Founder and Director of Publishing\, Éditions Alto \n\n\n\nParticipants: \n\n\n\nRachel McCrum\, author \n\n\n\nJonathan Lamy\, translator and author \n\n\n\nMarcela Huerta\, author \n\n\n\nDaphné B.\, translator and author \n\n\n\nFriday\, November 25th at 5PM (45 minutes) on the Agora stage. 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/translating-english-quebec/
LOCATION:Palais des congrès de Montréal\, 1001 Jean Paul Riopelle Pl\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2Z1H5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,QWF Events
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