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SUMMARY:Perspective in Literary Fiction
DESCRIPTION:This five-week workshop will offer a deep dive into the use of perspective in fiction. Storytellers operate in first-person\, second-person\, third-person limited\, third-person omniscient\, and more unusual points-of-view. What distinguishes these perspectives? What are their gifts and limitations? Most importantly\, what can your chosen perspective do for the story you want to tell? \n\n\n\nEach class will open with a discussion of perspective in some published fiction. How close is the narrator to the characters? How does the perspective affect the voice in which the story is told? What is the relationship of the voice to the characters? \n\n\n\nNext\, we will do two writing exercises. The first will be largely generative\, based on the reading. The second will be integrative\, guiding participants to apply what we are learning to their own stories or characters. \n\n\n\nAfter discussing the writing exercises\, we will devote the last part of each class to discussing participant stories. \n\n\n\nOn registration\, participants will receive a packet of published stories or samples to be discussed in the first class; reading for subsequent weeks will be distributed after our first meeting. Participants are encouraged to bring ½-1 page of fiction to share on the first day\, though they may choose instead to share some work generated in class. Subsequently\, each participant is encouraged to submit 3-10 pages of fiction to be discussed by the class with a special focus on perspective. Otherwise\, discussion will be tailored to participant preferences\, with an eye to making discussion as useful to the writer as possible.   \n\n\n\nParticipants should arrive each week having read the assigned stories and their peers’ work (approximately 40 pages). Be prepared to discuss these thoughtfully and with engagement! My goal is to create a space for candid and open-ended discussion. \n\n\n\nParticipants will finish the workshop with greater fluency and command in perspective\, as readers able to discern the subtleties and mechanics of this important aspect of our craft\, and as writers able to choose and employ a storytelling perspective with verve and confidence. \n\n\n\nPadma Viswanathan’s novels have been published in eight countries and shortlisted for various awards\, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her most recent book is Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime (Random House Canada\, 2023). Her short fiction\, essays\, and short translations can be found in Granta\, The Paris Review\, BRICK\, and elsewhere. Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas\, she has also served as fiction faculty at the Banff Center\, the Vermont Studio Center\, the Bread Loaf Conferences\, and the low-residency MFA of Fairleigh Dickinson University. More at www.padmaviswanathan.com 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/perspective-in-literary-fiction/2024-02-21/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 23\, 12:30 pm–3:00 pmFree\, In PersonQWF Office (Room 3\, 1200 Atwater Ave.\, Westmount)\n\n\n\nRegister for the session by filling out the RSVP form below. \n\n\n\nLooking for some dedicated\, quiet writing space? \n\n\n\nJoin us for an in-person Shut Up & Write session at the QWF office! \n\n\n\nDo all that writing you’ve been meaning to do\, and meet a few of your fellow QWF members. Using the Pomodoro technique\, participants write in 25 minute bursts\, with 5-minute breaks in between. \n\n\n\nThis event is for QWF members only. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member.  \n\n\n\nPlease note that these sessions are designed for silent writing\, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work. \n\n\n\n12:30–12:55: Writing 112:55–1:00: Break1:00–1:25: Writing 21:25–1:30: Break1:30–1:55: Writing 31:55–2:00: Break2:00–2:25: Writing 42:25–2:30: Break2:30–2:55: Writing 5 \n\n\n\nTo register\, RSVP below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting to the QWF Office\n\n\n\nOur office is located on the top floor of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, in Room 3. \n\n\n\nAddress: 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3Westmount\, QC H3Z 1X4 \n\n\n\nClosest Metro: Atwater Station \n\n\n\nClosest Bus lines: 24\, 63\, 90\, 104\, 138\, 144\, 150 \n\n\n\nAccessibility:\n\n\n\nThe QWF Office is fully accessible by wheelchair from the side entrance on Tupper Street. Once inside\, there is an elevator to the second floor\, where the QWF office is. \n\n\n\nLearn more about the office location and accessibility.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-in-person-8/
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 develop 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 (CCA) and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)\, and an arts council program officer will join us to answer questions. This series is information-heavy and intended for Quebec-based writers at all stages of their practice: emerging\, mid-career\, or established. Participants must have an original literary arts project in mind in order to focus their efforts and be prepared to complete tasks between sessions. \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\nAs soon as they have registered for the workshop\, participants should email a short\, one-sentence description of their current literary arts project to riley@qwf.org with the subject line “For Tawhida Tanya Evanson.” \n\n\n\nTawhida Tanya Evanson is a poet\, author\, performer and producer. Her poetry collections include Bothism and Nouveau Griot\, and her debut novel Book of Wings won the 2022 CAM/Blue Metropolis New Contribution Prize. Her French autotranslation Livre des ailes (2023) is fresh from Marchand de feuilles. With a twenty-five-year practice in oral poetry and music\, she performs internationally and has released studio albums and short films including the upcoming concert film CYANO SUN SUITE. She is president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation\, director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word Program\, and produces interarts events as Mother Tongue Media. She moonlights as a whirling dervish. www.mothertonguemedia.com
URL:https://qwf.org/event/illuminated-grant-writing-4/2024-02-24/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Naniki by Oonya Kempadoo
DESCRIPTION:February 24\, 2–4 pmLibrairie Paragraphe Bookstore\, Montreal\n\n\n\n𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 and 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 present a book launch for 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒌𝒊 by 𝐎𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐊𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐨. \n\n\n\nJoin us as author 𝐎𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐊𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐨 discusses and signs copies of her latest book 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒌𝒊. \n\n\n\nAdmission is Free. \n\n\n\n𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑:\n\n\n\nOonya Kempadoo is the author of three novels and is critically acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. A creative practitioner with an interest in cross-disciplinary dialogue\, she is a citizen of England\, Guyana\, and Grenada\, and currently lives in Montreal. \n\n\n\n𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊:\n\n\n\nThrough luminescent light\, ancestral paths\, and a Caribbean spirit-inflected world\, Naniki explores the musings and inner workings of the deep blue — the Caribbean Sea — and its shape-shifting sea beings. \n\n\n\nAs the sea mirrors the light from the blue skies\, and its depths are exposed by daggers of sunlight\, so too Naniki reveals and honours the Indigenous roots of the Caribbean and its people\, whose destiny is tied to the sea\, the vessel of collective memory. \n\n\n\nAmana and Skelele are made of water and air\, their essence intertwined with Taino and African ancestry. They evolved as elemental beings of the Anthropocene\, and shape-shifting with their naniki (active spirits) or animal avatars\, they begin an archipelagic journey throughout the Caribbean Basin to see the strange future they dreamed of. Until devastation erupts. \n\n\n\nTasked by their elders to go back in time to the source of the First People’s knowledge\, they must surmount historical and mythological challenges alike. How can they navigate and overcome these obstacles to regenerate themselves\, their love\, their islands\, and their seas?
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-naniki-by-oonya-kempadoo/
LOCATION:Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore\, 2220 McGill College Ave\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 3P9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Book launch of 'Take Out the Jocks: a feminist revenge comedy'
DESCRIPTION:Join Michael Nest for the launch of his new novel ‘Take Out the Jocks: a feminist revenge comedy’\, with Linda Morra\, the host and writer of Getting Lit With Linda. The novel explores what would happen if the people afraid to go out at night were young men\, not young women. It follows Kate\, Carly\, and Seyram\, friends since childhood\, who are outraged by the acquittal of a local rapist and frustrated at the lack of progress with the #MeToo movement in their community. They decide to reverse gender freedoms by targeting the town’s jocks in a series of ever-more brazen attacks. On the case are local police\, who can’t conceive that middle-aged moms could be capable of such things. But also on their tail are the FBI and a local journalist who suspect their involvement. Set against the backdrop of Trump’s America in 2018\, the novel is a dark comedy of female vengeance that blows open literally a small American town. Michael Nest lives in Montreal. His previous book\, Cold Case North: the search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett was shortlisted for Crime Writers of Canada’s Best Nonfiction Crime Book (2021) and won SaskBooks’ Creative Publishing Award (2022).
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-of-take-out-the-jocks-a-feminist-revenge-comedy/
LOCATION:l’Euguélionne Bookstore\, 1426 rue Beaudry\,\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2L 3E5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Translation Talks: D. M. Bradford and Donald Nicholson-Smith
DESCRIPTION:February 26\, 12:00–1:00 pm ESTOnline via Zoom (Register for Zoom link)\n\n\n\nDarby Minott Bradford is a poet\, translator\, and sometimes curator. They are the author of Dream of No One but Myself (2021)\, which won the A.M. Klein QWF Prize for Poetry\, was a finalist for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize\, Governor General Literary Award and Gerard Lampert Memorial Award\, and was longlisted for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal. Bradford’s first translation\, House Within a House (2023) by Nicholas Dawson\, received the VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award and John Glassco Translation Prize\, and was shortlisted for the Governor General Literary Awards for French-to-English translation. Their most recent book of poetry\, Bottom Rail on Top (2023)\, works to complicate prevailing conceptions of Blackness by staging one personal present alongside American histories of antebellum Black life. Bradford lives and works in Tio’tia:ke (Montréal) on the unceded territory of the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka nation. \n\n\n\nDonald Nicholson-Smith is a translator and freelance editor. Born in Manchester\, England\, he is a long-time resident of New York City. His translations include works by Thierry Jonquet\, Guy Debord\, Paco Ignacio Taibo II\, Henri Lefebvre\, Guillaume Apollinaire\, Raoul Vaneigem\, Antonin Artaud\, Yasmina Khadra (with Alyson Waters)\, Jean-Patrick Manchette\, and Serge Pey. His en-face translation of Abdellatif Laâbi’s In Praise of Defeat\, including self-selected poems from the Moroccan author and dissident’s long career\, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017. Nicholson-Smith has been dubbed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in recognition of his services to French literature in translation. \n\n\n\nTranslation Talks will run for approximately one hour on Zoom and will be hosted by Griffin Poetry Prize editorial director Adriana Oniță and social media editor Medgine Mathurin. \n\n\n\nCheck out the Griffin Poetry Prize’s past Translation Talks on SoundCloud and YouTube\, featuring exceptional poet-translators in conversation\, including Khaled Mattawa & Sarah Riggs; Ani Gjika & Dunya Mikhail; Ali Kinsella\, Dzvinia Orlowsky\, & Mira Rosenthal; Valzhyna Mort & Erin Moure; and Manolis Aligizakis & Sharon Dolin. \n\n\n\nStay tuned for the announcement of the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Longlist on March 20\, 2024.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/translation-talks-d-m-bradford-and-donald-nicholson-smith/
LOCATION:QC
CATEGORIES:Panel,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 2\, 10:00 am–12:30 pmOnline via Zoom—RSVP below to receive the Zoom link\n\n\n\nLooking 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.  \n\n\n\nThe Zoom link will be sent out a day or two before the session. \n\n\n\nPlease note that these sessions are designed for silent writing\, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work. \n\n\n\n10:00–10:25: Writing 110:25–10:30: Break10:30–10:55: Writing 210:55–11:00: Break11:00–11:25: Writing 311:25–11:30: Break11:30–11:55: Writing 411:55–12:00: Break12:00–12:25: Writing 5 \n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom link\, RSVP below. You will receive the Zoom link a few days before the session. \n\n\n\nNote: RSVPs for virtual Shut Up & Write! sessions close 24 hours before the session. If there is no option to RSVP\, RSVPs are closed.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-virtual-5/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Shut Up & Write!
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SUMMARY:Confabulation presents:  Lies I told my parents — Stories of missed curfews\, careful omissions and getting caught red-handed
DESCRIPTION:Confabulation Montreal presents: “Lies I told my parents — Stories of missed curfews\, careful omissions and getting caught red-handed.” \nSaturday March 2\, 2024 @ 20h\nCentaur Theatre\, 453 Saint Francois Xavier St\, Montreal\, Quebec H2Y 2T2\nGet your tickets right here: https://centaurtheatre.com/box-office/event-details/?event_id=S55confablies
URL:https://qwf.org/event/confabulation-presents-lies-i-told-my-parents-stories-of-missed-curfews-careful-omissions-and-getting-caught-red-handed/
LOCATION:Centaur Theatre\, 453 St. Francois-Xavier\, Montreal\, Quebec\, HZY 2T1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240304T180000
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SUMMARY:Writing Comic Poetry: Seriously?!
DESCRIPTION:Can a poem be funny? Can we balance the light and the dark\, find hilarity in a haiku? What is the value of play in creation? In this workshop\, participants will be encouraged to explore the place of humour in their work\, through guided readings\, discussions\, and exercises. \n\n\n\nWriters of all levels\, from beginner to seasoned\, are welcome\, and you may use whatever tools you prefer\, from laptops to paper and a pen. Each workshop will begin with a reading and discussion of a poem provided by the workshop leader\, followed by a writing session. Participants are encouraged but not required to share their works-in-progress with the group. You are also encouraged to bring to our meetings drafts of poems-in-progress\, or any writing you may wish to shape into a poem. \n\n\n\nIdentifying what makes you laugh is key to sharpening your own wit\, so a week prior to the workshop you will be asked to select a poem from a provided list. During the first meeting\, be prepared to explain why this poem made you guffaw\, laugh\, or perhaps just chuckle. Was it the surprising wordplay? An unexpected juxtaposition? The poet’s subversion of your expectations? \n\n\n\nThrough writing prompts and exercises (both collaborative and individualized)\, we will play with form\, persona\, and language. While humour is subjective\, this workshop will be a safe space\, with respectful feedback provided by the instructor and the group. \n\n\n\nRebecca Păpucaru‘s first novel\, As Good a Place as Any\, will be published by Guernica Editions in 2025. Her first book\, The Panic Room (Nightwood Editions) was awarded the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry and was also a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her short story “Yentas” won The Malahat Review’s 2020 Novella Prize. Her work has also appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry in English\, Arc\, EVENT\, Grain\, The Literary Review of Canada\, Canadian Literature\, and The New Quarterly\, among others.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-comic-poetry-seriously/2024-03-04/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Memoir: How to Tell Your Story
DESCRIPTION:Each of us has a story to tell. We all have memories. But how do you take what you’ve experienced and turn it into something more than a conversation in a bar? How do you find the weight that is in each of our lives and stories? \n\n\n\nIn this workshop we’ll focus on transforming the personal into something that reaches beyond. \n\n\n\nHere’s a loose outline of how we’ll approach it. \n\n\n\nWeek 1 \n\n\n\nWhat is a story? What makes the telling a story and not just words spilling onto a page? \n\n\n\nWeek 2 \n\n\n\nHow to get at that story that burns within? \n\n\n\nWeek 3 \n\n\n\nThe hook\, part 1: First impressions are critical \n\n\n\nWeek 4 \n\n\n\nThe hook\, part 2: Developing the critical eye \n\n\n\nWeek 5 \n\n\n\nBeyond copy editing: How do you know which voice is the right voice? You have to listen carefully. The story knows. \n\n\n\nWeek 6 \n\n\n\nAttack 1: You’ve written your story. We’re here to tell you we don’t like it. What are you going to do about it? \n\n\n\nWeek 7 \n\n\n\nAttack 2: Why is the story not working – or\, better still\, why is it working? \n\n\n\nWeek 8 \n\n\n\nWriter vs Author: writing to write or writing to get published. Why it matters. \n\n\n\nAlong the way\, there will be exercises\, discussions\, writing\, revising\, reading of each other’s work\, and good fun. \n\n\n\nEddy L. Harris is a perpetual traveler\, a filmmaker and the author of seven critically acclaimed books\, all of which partake of memoir\, adventure tale\, travelogue and cultural reportage. \n\n\n\nHe spent four years as Writer-in-Residence at Washington University teaching Black American Literature and writing classes structured as workshops. That was followed by a stint on the Nez Perce Indian reservation in northern Idaho and a documentary project he wrote and presented for BBC-Wales: Roots In Wales. \n\n\n\nIn 2014 he repeated his canoe journey along the Mississippi River which resulted in the award-winning documentary film River to the Heart\, which he wrote\, produced\, and directed. \n\n\n\nHe has worked most recently as professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg\, Virginia \n\n\n\nAs USA Today put it: “Eddy Harris isn’t your everyday tourist. His travels almost always have a purpose\, and that purpose is to write about not only what he sees\, but what he feels.”
URL:https://qwf.org/event/memoir-how-to-tell-your-story/2024-03-04/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Unlock Your Filmmaking Dreams: A Short Film Screenwriting Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is not just about dreaming—it’s about doing. It’s about equipping you with the tools to transform your creative ideas into compelling short films. Here’s what you can expect to gain from this cooperative experience: \n\n\n\nLearn the fundamental skills of crafting engaging and impactful short film screenplays; the principles of character development\, plot structure\, and dialogue that will make your narrative resonate. Gain insights into the anatomy of a successful screenplays\, receive hands-on guidance on structuring your ideas\, ensuring your story flows seamlessly from start to finish and receive constructive feedback in a safe environment designed to cultivate a supportive community of fellow aspiring writers. \n\n\n\nAs you share your thoughts and insights\, you will develop the skill of giving and receiving positive\, constructive feedback to elevate your work and cultivate a supportive community of fellow writers. This will allow you to articulate your vision effectively\, convey the essence of your screenplay with impact and hone the art of pitching your ideas confidently and persuasively. \n\n\n\nHow to apply? \n\n\n\nSubmit your CV\, a paragraph detailing your previous creative writing experience and a paragraph describing the story you would like to develop as a screenplay of no more than ten script pages – equivalent to ten minutes of screen time. Adaptations of stories from other forms is encouraged. Send all your submissions materials in one email to Riley at riley@qwf.org with the subject line “For Jacob Potashnik” by Friday\, February 16. \n\n\n\nThrough a series of ten\, two-hour sessions\, you will identify and refine the core elements of your story and develop your ideas and receive constructive group feedback. You will progress from story idea to an outline\, treatment\, a dialogued version\, to your final draft screenplay. There is an emphasis on oral presentation of ideas and active participation for all participants. \n\n\n\nSeize Your Spot! Spaces are limited\, so act now to secure your place in this exciting QWF Short Film Screenwriting Workshop. \n\n\n\nJacob Potashnik is a screenwriter and producer and line-producer of documentaries\, television series\, commercials\, web content and films of every genre. In 2019\, Jacob co-produced\, “Pink Lake\,” a feature film which screened at international festivals in Vancouver\, Hamilton\, and Durban. Jacob won the WGC award for the best screenplay for\, “Stardom\,” co-written and directed by Denys Arcand. He is the author of\, “The Golem of Hampstead\, and Other Stories\,” a collection short-listed for the QWF/Concordia University First Book prize.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/unlock-your-filmmaking-dreams-a-short-film-screenwriting-workshop/2024-03-05/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Writers Read presents Laurie Graham\, Derek Beaulieu\, and Jana Prikryl
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read\, a reading series based at Concordia University\, is eager to feature a professional panel of outstanding writers: poet and publisher of Brick Magazine Laurie Graham\, poet\, publisher\, anthologist and Banff’s poet laureate Derek Beaulieu\, and poet and executive editor of the New York Review of Books Jana Prikryl. The panel will take place from 11am-1pm\, in which Graham\, Beaulieu\, and Prikryl will discuss how to make a career through writing. From 1:00-2:30\, light refreshments will be served as members from Concordia’s graduate literary journal\, Headlight Anthology\, perform a reading. Finally\, from 2:30-5:00\, Graham\, Beaulieu\, and Prikryl will read their own work. This event is free and open to all. If attendees can not be present for the whole event\, they are welcome to attend as much as they can.  \n\n\n\nWriters Read is part of Concordia University’s Creative Writing program and is supported by the Department of English and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Writers Read\, directed by Professor Sina Queyras since 2011\, invites renowned and emerging authors\, both Canadian and international\, to read from and discuss their work with students and local audiences. In addition to readings\, the series includes Master Classes and professional developmental activities spanning the school year. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, follow @writersreadconcordia on Instagram
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-read-presents-laurie-graham-derek-beaulieu-and-jana-prikryl/
LOCATION:4TH SPACE\, McConnell Building\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 1M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Edit Your Own Prose: The Art of Rewriting
DESCRIPTION:You’ve written a first draft of your novel or your memoir. You know you need to rework it\, but you’re stuck. It doesn’t quite work\, but you are not sure why. Rewriting the opening over and over isn’t helping. So\, what should you do?     \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, you’ll learn how to see your own work with an editor’s eye using tips\, tricks\, and hands-on exercises. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will focus on big-picture issues\, including story line\, character development\, and genre expectations\, and help you bring the story alive on the page through rhythm\, effective dialogue\, and language choices. \n\n\n\nThrough the course of the workshop\, you’ll learn how to: \n\n\n\n\nSpot common big-picture problems (info dumping\, “as you know\, Bob” explanations\, insufficient conflict\, misunderstanding genre conventions\, etc.)\n\n\n\nTrack character development (goals and motivation)\n\n\n\nSee the advantages and pitfalls of different points of view\n\n\n\nMake the most out of dialogue\n\n\n\nPlay with language and develop your imagination\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is geared toward fiction and creative nonfiction book-length manuscripts. \n\n\n\nBy the end of the workshop\, you’ll better understand what isn’t working in your manuscript and how to fix it\, and\, hopefully\, have learned to love the rewriting process.   \n\n\n\nMaria Schamis Turner is a freelance editor specializing in developmental editing and line editing for fiction and creative nonfiction. She is a founding editor and previous editor-in-chief and creative nonfiction editor of the literary magazine carte blanche. She worked for 10 years on literary projects for CBC Radio\, including as an editor for Canada Writes. She was also the producer of the true-story storytelling series This Really Happened and has taught numerous workshops on storytelling\, writing\, and editing.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/edit-your-own-prose-the-art-of-rewriting/2024-03-06/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Speaking Truth to Power: How to Write Non-Didactic Political Poetry
DESCRIPTION:This 8-week poetry workshop focuses on writing poetry that engages with social justice and politics without leaning too far into didacticism and prescriptiveness\, without sounding too preachy or like a chant in a march. This workshop intends to show writers how to subtly pack a punch into a poem that leaves the reader breathless\, surprised\, and moved. We will be doing this by exploring different formal approaches that will help add nuance and singularity to the poems we will be writing. \n\n\n\nEach week\, we’ll be discussing a different formal approach\, including: \n\n\n\n\nDirect address/letter poems\n\n\n\nFiltering through a lens\n\n\n\nWriter as expert\n\n\n\nResearch\n\n\n\nFound poetry/Erasure poetry\n\n\n\nVillanelle\, the ghazal\, and the power of repetition\n\n\n\nExperimental poetry\n\n\n\n\nWe will be doing so by reading and discussing poems that utilize specific formal approaches based on the topic set for the week. Some of the writers we will be reading include Hanif Abdurraqib\, Chen Chen\, Canisia Lubrin\, Trish Salah\, Tommy Pico\, Kay Gabriel\, Dionne Brand\, and Hala Alyan. \n\n\n\nFurthermore\, each week\, workshop participants will be given writing prompts that will help them learn about the different forms and formal approaches discussed. The prompts will guide the participants in attempting to write poems using that week’s form. Finally\, 1-2 writers will have their poems workshopped each week. Attendees will be asked to send in their poems a week in advance so that their peers can start workshopping the pieces at home a week in advance.This workshop is open to poets in any stage of their development\, whether they are new to writing or already have a writing practice. The goal of the workshop is for participants to leave the workshop with a deeper understanding of the ways form and craft can be used to write more impactful and unique poems that engage with social justice and undermine the white\, cis\, colonial patriarchal status quo. This workshop will be especially useful for writers who feel they have something to say but don’t know how to say it.Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a writer\, translator\, and acquisitions editor at Metonymy Press living in Tio’tia:ke. Their work has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 anthology\, The New Quarterly\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and elsewhere. Their book\, knot body\, published by Metatron Press in 2020\, was shortlisted for the QWF Concordia First Book Award\, and their second book\, The Good Arabs\, published by Metonymy Press in 2021\, was received honorary mention for the Arab American Book Awards and the Khayrallah Prize\, and won the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. Their translation of Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay’s La fille d’elle-même from the French was published in Spring 2023. With co-editor Samia Marshy\, they are editing El Ghourabaa\, an anthology of queer and trans writing by Arab and Arabophone writers\, forthcoming Spring 2024.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/speaking-truth-to-power-how-to-write-non-didactic-political-poetry/2024-03-06/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Infinithéâtre Presents: Dominoes at the Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:March 7–March 16\n\n\n\nPresenting the world premiere production of Dominoes at the Crossroads\, based on the novel by Kaie Kellough and adapted and directed by Zach Fraser in collaboration with a team of multidisciplinary artists. \n\n\n\nExploring race\, history\, and coming-of-age by way of confessions and dreams\, Dominoes at the Crossroads offers a poetic ode to an epic and universal search for home and belonging\, gently anchored into port here in our eclectic city that is Montréal. Running from March 7th – 16th at 3680 rue Jeanne-Mance in Montréal (H2X 2K5). \n\n\n\nTickets available at: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/f56d43f8-23be-4a72-b2e1-aca6c64b6cee
URL:https://qwf.org/event/infinitheatre-presents-dominoes-at-the-crossroads/
LOCATION:3680 rue Jeanne-Mance\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X2K5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Getting Weird: Crafting Surreal Short Stories
DESCRIPTION:Getting Weird is an 8-week short fiction workshop that focuses on writing strangeness into the everyday\, as a method for exploring and disrupting questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, climate change\, capitalism\, and other big topics. Participants will read a wide range of writers who delve into the weird\, such as Paige Cooper\, Giada Scodellaro\, Renee Gladman\, Hiromi Goto\, Mariana Enriquez\, Carmen Maria Machado\, and Callum Angus. They will be given an array of writing prompts\, designed to investigate different aspects of surreal fiction\, and will also have the opportunity to give and receive feedback on short pieces of writing. \n\n\n\nWeird fiction contains elements of the eerie\, the uncanny\, and the surreal\, and encourages high levels of playfulness and perceptiveness\, two key elements of compelling storytelling. Weird fiction can also serve as a strong vehicle for writers from underrepresented groups to remake the world in ways that decenter white\, colonial\, hetero-cis-normative worldviews. Prompts will include the following topics: \n\n\n\n\nWeird micro-fiction\n\n\n\nEngaging the senses\n\n\n\nWeirdness at work (parsing the rituals of capitalism and labour)\n\n\n\nGender euphoria/queer weirdos\n\n\n\nReworking ancestral mythologies\n\n\n\nDream logics\n\n\n\n\nParticipants will receive prompts the week before each session (except before the first meeting)\, and will be given a rota (workshopping schedule) in advance. Each participant will have at least one opportunity to submit one piece of writing (up to 2000 words) to the group\, which will be discussed in-session by their peers\, with additional feedback provided by the instructor. These submissions should be based on one or more of the prompts given in the workshop. Participants should be prepared to do the following homework between sessions: responding to writing prompts\, reading one assigned piece of fiction\, providing feedback to their peers. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is open to new fiction writers\, as well as writers who already have a developed fiction practice. Participants should emerge from the workshop with one or two solid short story drafts\, and a confidence in their ability to unsettle the status quo on the page. \n\n\n\nH Felix Chau Bradley is the author of Personal Attention Roleplay (Metonymy Press)\, which was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Kobo Rakuten Emerging Writer Prize in 2022; and the chapbook Automatic Object Lessons (House House Press). Their writing has appeared in carte blanche\, ESPACE art actuel\, the Humber Literary Review\, Maisonneuve Magazine\, the Montreal Review of Books\, PRISM International\, Weird Era\, Xtra and elsewhere. They live in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)\, and work as an editor for Metonymy Press\, This Magazine\, and Le Sigh. They were recently awarded QWF’s carte blanche Prize.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/getting-weird-crafting-surreal-short-stories/2024-03-07/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Launch of Mechanophilia with Sarah Burgoyne\, Misha Solomon\, & Bridget Huh
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 7\, 7:00 PMLibrairie Pulp Books & Cafe3952 Rue Wellington\, Montreal \n\n\n\nJoin Sarah Burgoyne\, Misha Solomon and Bridget Huh at Librairie Pulp on March 7th for the launch of Sarah Burgoyne and Vi Khi Nao’s collaborative mathematical infinite epic poetry book Mechanophilia (Book 1!)\, hosted by the inimitable Stuart Ross\, editor of A Feed Dog Book\, an imprint with Anvil Press. Poems will be read\, books will be signed\, refreshments will appear\, and the number pi will unfurl among us in verse. JOIN US FOR A NIGHT OF LOQUACIOUS BALLADEERING. \n\n\n\nSARAH BURGOYNE is a Canadian experimental poet. Her second collection\, Because the Sun was published with Coach House Books in April 2021 and was nominated for the A.M. Klein Prize in Poetry. Her first collection Saint Twin (Mansfield: 2016) was a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize in Poetry (2016)\, awarded a prize from l’Académie de la vie littéraire (2017) and shortlisted for a Canadian ReLit Award. Other works have appeared in journals across Canada and the U.S.\, have been featured in scores by American composer J.P. Merz and have appeared with or alongside the visual art of Susanna Barlow\, Jamie Macaulay and Joani Tremblay. https://www.sarahburgoyne.com \n\n\n\nVI KHI NAO (who will not be present this evening\, but will be at the online launch March 11) is the author of six poetry collections: Fish Carcass (Black Sun Lit\, 2022)\, A Bell Curve Is A Pregnant Straight Line (11:11 Press\, 2021)\, Human Tetris (11:11 Press\, 2019) Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit\, 2018)\, Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913\, 2017)\, The Old Philosopher (winner of the Nightboat Prize for 2014)\, and of the short stories collection\, A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize)\, the novel\, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press\, 2016). Her work includes poetry\, fiction\, film and cross-genre collaboration. She was the Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute: https://www.vikhinao.com \n\n\n\nMISHA SOLOMON is a homosexual poet in and of Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is the author of two chapbooks\, FLORALS and Full Sentences\, and his work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry 2024\, & Change\, The Antigonish Review\, The Fiddlehead\, Grain\, The Malahat Review\, and PRISM international. \n\n\n\nBRIDGET HUH is a queer Korean poet completing her undergraduate studies at Concordia University. Her poetry and criticism have appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine\, PRISM International\, The Ex-Puritan and Canthius. She is the winner of the 2023 Vallum Poetry Award\, and her debut collection of poetry is forthcoming from Véhicule Press.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/launch-of-mechanophilia-with-sarah-burgoyne-misha-solomon-bridget-huh/
LOCATION:Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe\, 3952 Wellington Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4G1V3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Speculative Fiction Master Class: Readying Your Work for Publication
DESCRIPTION:As in all of my workshops\, speculative fiction is defined broadly to include anything from science fiction to fantasy to slipstream to magic realism. Participants are free to submit a short story\, an excerpt from a larger work\, a script\, speculative poetry\, a comic\, or graphic novel excerpt. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will consist of ten sessions so as to give each participant the opportunity to workshop their piece twice: once for initial feedback and a second time once revisions have been made. We will begin by having each workshop member introduce themselves and their project\, including their intentions. Following these introductions\, I will give a brief presentation on different vectors of analysis in evaluating a piece\, including: \n\n\n\n\n         story\, plot arc\, and pacingworldbuildingcharacter\, POV\, voice\, and tonedescriptions and other issues of language and writing qualitytheme and meaning/intention\n\nbeginnings and endings\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn week 1\, we will workshop a very short story that participants should read before we meet: Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” In discussing this story\, participants will have the opportunity to practice both the workshopping method and vectors of analysis that we will be employing during subsequent sessions. \n\n\n\nIn weeks 2 through 9\, we will workshop two to three submissions at each session. There will also be discussions and exchanges on a topic or topics related to one or more of the vectors of analysis mentioned in the first session. These topics will not be determined in advance\, but will flow organically from the submissions discussed that particular week. \n\n\n\nThe last session will be reserved for an in-depth presentation on maximizing your chances of publication\, including a list of resources\, and a guest presentation by a speculative fiction publisher. I will also answer any new questions that may have arisen in previous sessions. \n\n\n\n*This workshop will take place at the QWF Office (Room 3\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec) with up to 2 virtual spots for participants who are unable to attend in-person. By default\, all workshop registrations are for in-person spots. If you would like to attend the workshop via Zoom\, first email Riley (riley@qwf.org) to see if online spots are still available for this workshop\, and then wait for confirmation. Virtual spots are limited and are reserved for people who either live outside Montreal or have a medical condition. \n\n\n\nSu J  Sokol is a writer of speculative and interstitial fiction as well as an editor. Xe is the author of three novels: Cycling to Asylum\, long-listed for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic and optioned for a film; Run J Run; and Zee\, a finalist for the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Les lignes invisibles\, the French translation of Cycling to Asylum\, was published in 2022 by VLB Imaginaire. Sokol’s short fiction and essays have appeared in various magazines and anthologies.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/speculative-fiction-master-class-readying-your-work-for-publication/2024-03-07/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 8\, 12:30 pm–3:00 pmFree\, In PersonQWF Office (Room 3\, 1200 Atwater Ave.\, Westmount)\n\n\n\nRegister for the session by filling out the RSVP form below. \n\n\n\nLooking for some dedicated\, quiet writing space? \n\n\n\nJoin us for an in-person Shut Up & Write session at the QWF office! \n\n\n\nDo all that writing you’ve been meaning to do\, and meet a few of your fellow QWF members. Using the Pomodoro technique\, participants write in 25 minute bursts\, with 5-minute breaks in between. \n\n\n\nThis event is for QWF members only. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member.  \n\n\n\nPlease note that these sessions are designed for silent writing\, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work. \n\n\n\n12:30–12:55: Writing 112:55–1:00: Break1:00–1:25: Writing 21:25–1:30: Break1:30–1:55: Writing 31:55–2:00: Break2:00–2:25: Writing 42:25–2:30: Break2:30–2:55: Writing 5 \n\n\n\nTo register\, RSVP below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting to the QWF Office\n\n\n\nOur office is located on the top floor of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, in Room 3. \n\n\n\nAddress: 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3Westmount\, QC H3Z 1X4 \n\n\n\nClosest Metro: Atwater Station \n\n\n\nClosest Bus lines: 24\, 63\, 90\, 104\, 138\, 144\, 150 \n\n\n\nAccessibility:\n\n\n\nThe QWF Office is fully accessible by wheelchair from the side entrance on Tupper Street. Once inside\, there is an elevator to the second floor\, where the QWF office is. \n\n\n\nLearn more about the office location and accessibility.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-in-person-9/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Shut Up & Write!
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SUMMARY:Writing Biography: A One-Day Creative Nonfiction Workshop
DESCRIPTION:“Biography is a metaphor. It’s not the person’s life; it’s writing about a person’s life.” \n\n\n\n            –Benjamin Moser\, author of a biography of Susan Sontag \n\n\n\nThis workshop aims to introduce participants to the art and science of writing the story of another person’s life. After unpacking the notion of “biography” and examining examples of different approaches\, the workshop will focus on the challenges and methodologies of biographical investigation\, research\, and writing. Participants are invited to bring to the workshop a favourite book-length biography and\, if possible\, to briefly present the subject of a biography that they would like to write. \n\n\n\nMorning (10.30 am – 1 pm): \n\n\n\n\nIntroductory remarks and participant introductions\n\n\n\n\n\nBiography as creative nonfiction (As opposed to memoir\, autobiography\, auto-fiction\, or fiction).\n\n\n\n\n\n“My favourite biography.” Each participant\, beginning with the workshop leader\, briefly presents a favourite book-length biography. (Participants are invited to prepare these brief presentations before coming to the workshop and\, if possible\, to bring in a copy of the book they wish to highlight.)\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscussion\n\n\n\n\nAfternoon (2 pm – 4.30 pm): \n\n\n\n\nThe research and writing process. (Including a breakdown of the workshop leader’s research\, methodology\, and writing process for his two award-winning published biographies.)\n\n\n\n\n\n“My future biography.” Each participant briefly presents the subject of a biography they would like to write\, with emphasis on the “why” and the “how\,” describing how they would go about doing it and the pitfalls they might anticipate.\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscussion and wrap-up\n\n\n\n\nSuggested reading: Robert A. Caro\, Working: Researching\, Interviewing\, Writing. Penguin Random House\, 2019. \n\n\n\nMarc Raboy is a former print and broadcast journalist\, emeritus professor of media studies\, and author or editor of some twenty books\, including the award-winning biographies: Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World\, finalist for the 2016 Governor General’s Literary Awards\, and Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel\, which won the 2022 QWF Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction. He lives in Montréal and Abercorn\, Qc.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-biography-a-one-day-creative-nonfiction-workshop/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Business Skills for Creative Souls Artists’ Conference: “Strategies for Thriving as an Artist”
DESCRIPTION:March 11\, 2024\, 12:30–5:00 pmUnitarian Church of Montreal\, 5035 Boulevard de Maisonneuve OuestMontreal\, QC\n\n\n\nCalling all creatives! Unlock Your Artistic Potential: Join the Business Skills for Creative Souls Artists’ Conference: “Strategies for Thriving as an Artist”! \n\n\n\nJoin a vibrant community of visionaries at our artists conference\, where we delve into the keys to unlocking your full artistic potential. Dive into dynamic sessions on cultivating creativity\, overcoming challenges\, and mastering the business of art. Connect with seasoned professionals\, gain insights into navigating the evolving art landscape\, and leave inspired to thrive as an artist. Don’t miss your chance to grow as an artist —reserve your spot now! \n\n\n\nThis year’s event\, hosted by CBC’s Sonali Karnick\, features an exciting lineup of panelists eager to share their artistic journeys with you! Topics include strategies for thriving as artist: earning a livable income as an artist\, balancing life and personal career\, and building your artistic brand. \n\n\n\nPanel 1: Strategies for Earning A Livable Income \n\n\n\n\nCara Carmina (illustrator/designer/entrepreneur)\n\n\n\nSylvie Trouvé and Dale Hayward (animators and educators)\n\n\n\nLacy Alana (circus artist/writer/psychotherapist/Founder of YesAndBrain)\n\n\n\nTam Lan Truong (classical music photographer)\n\n\n\n\nKeynote: The Artist’s Balance: Managing Personal Life and Artistic Career: Victoria Sanchez (actress/filmmaker) \n\n\n\nPanel 2: The Art of Exposure: Building Your Artist Brand \n\n\n\n\nStephen Voyce (multi-award-winning recording artist)\n\n\n\nLiana Cusmano (writer/spoken word artist/educator)\n\n\n\nCarolina Echeverria (visual artist\, feminist activist\, and artistic director)\n\n\n\nBlair Thomson (composer/arranger/pianist)\n\n\n\n\nWhen: Monday March 11th\, 2024   \n\n\n\nWhere: Unitarian Church of Montreal (5035 Boulevard de Maisonneuve West\, easy access from Vendôme Metro on the Orange Line)  \n\n\n\nSchedule:   \n\n\n\n\n12:30 PM: On-site Registration \n\n\n\n1-5 PM: Artist Conference featuring two-panel discussions and a Keynote Speech. Note that the conference will be live-streamed online from 1-5 pm for virtual participants. \n\n\n\n5-7 PM: In-person networking event  \n\n\n\n\n*In addition\, YES provides an exclusive online opportunity in the morning for a 15-minute consultation with renowned arts organizations\, including the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec and the Conseil des Arts de Montreal.  \n\n\n\nStay tuned for more information! \n\n\n\nDon’t miss your chance to thrive—reserve your spot now! Secure Early Bird pricing by registering before March 1st. 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/business-skills-for-creative-souls-artists-conference-strategies-for-thriving-as-an-artist/
LOCATION:Unitarian Church of Montreal\, 5035 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Networking,Panel
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SUMMARY:Writing Comic Poetry: Seriously?!
DESCRIPTION:Can a poem be funny? Can we balance the light and the dark\, find hilarity in a haiku? What is the value of play in creation? In this workshop\, participants will be encouraged to explore the place of humour in their work\, through guided readings\, discussions\, and exercises. \n\n\n\nWriters of all levels\, from beginner to seasoned\, are welcome\, and you may use whatever tools you prefer\, from laptops to paper and a pen. Each workshop will begin with a reading and discussion of a poem provided by the workshop leader\, followed by a writing session. Participants are encouraged but not required to share their works-in-progress with the group. You are also encouraged to bring to our meetings drafts of poems-in-progress\, or any writing you may wish to shape into a poem. \n\n\n\nIdentifying what makes you laugh is key to sharpening your own wit\, so a week prior to the workshop you will be asked to select a poem from a provided list. During the first meeting\, be prepared to explain why this poem made you guffaw\, laugh\, or perhaps just chuckle. Was it the surprising wordplay? An unexpected juxtaposition? The poet’s subversion of your expectations? \n\n\n\nThrough writing prompts and exercises (both collaborative and individualized)\, we will play with form\, persona\, and language. While humour is subjective\, this workshop will be a safe space\, with respectful feedback provided by the instructor and the group. \n\n\n\nRebecca Păpucaru‘s first novel\, As Good a Place as Any\, will be published by Guernica Editions in 2025. Her first book\, The Panic Room (Nightwood Editions) was awarded the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry and was also a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her short story “Yentas” won The Malahat Review’s 2020 Novella Prize. Her work has also appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry in English\, Arc\, EVENT\, Grain\, The Literary Review of Canada\, Canadian Literature\, and The New Quarterly\, among others.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-comic-poetry-seriously/2024-03-11/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Mechanophilia Launch (Online) with Vi Khi Nao & Sarah Burgoyne
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, March 11\, 7:00–8:30 PMOnline (Register on Eventbrite)\n\n\n\nJoin Vi Khi Nao and Sarah Burgoyne virtually on March 11th for the launch of their collaborative mathematical infinite epic poetry book Mechanophilia (Volume 1!) edited by the inimitable Stuart Ross who will be hosting the event\, and published with Anvil Press. Poems will be read\, books may be ordered\, and the number pi will be unfurling among us in verse. JOIN US FOR A NIGHT OF LOQUACIOUS BALLADEERING. \n\n\n\nVI KHI NAO is the author of six poetry collections: Fish Carcass (Black Sun Lit\, 2022)\, A Bell Curve Is A Pregnant Straight Line (11:11 Press\, 2021)\, Human Tetris (11:11 Press\, 2019) Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit\, 2018)\, Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913\, 2017)\, The Old Philosopher (winner of the Nightboat Prize for 2014)\, and of the short stories collection\, A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize)\, the novel\, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press\, 2016). Her work includes poetry\, fiction\, film and cross-genre collaboration. She was the Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute: https://www.vikhinao.com \n\n\n\nSARAH BURGOYNE is a Canadian experimental poet. Her second collection\, Because the Sun was published with Coach House Books in April 2021 and was nominated for the A.M. Klein Prize in Poetry. Her first collection Saint Twin (Mansfield\, 2016) was a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize in Poetry (2016)\, awarded a prize from l’Académie de la vie littéraire (2017) and shortlisted for a Canadian ReLit Award. Other works have appeared in journals across Canada and the U.S.\, have been featured in scores by American composer J.P. Merz and have appeared with or alongside the visual art of Susanna Barlow\, Jamie Macaulay and Joani Tremblay. https://www.sarahburgoyne.com
URL:https://qwf.org/event/mechanophilia-launch-online-with-vi-khi-nao-sarah-burgoyne/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:A Hundred Hydrangeas: Poetry Soirée & Launch of "Citronella"
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, March 11 for an evening of poetry at the Morrin Centre! We will be celebrating the launch of Loch Baillie’s debut chapbook\, “Citronella.” Loch will be joined by Vanessa Bell and Sierra Duffey as well as local poets for a reading. An open mic will follow: all are welcome! \nUnable to make it in person? This activity will be offered in a hybrid format so you can join from the comfort of your own home too! For more information\, visit www.morrin.org/en/morrin-in-verse
URL:https://qwf.org/event/a-hundred-hydrangeas-poetry-soiree-launch-of-citronella/
LOCATION:Morrin Centre\, 44 Chaussée des Écossais\, Quebec City\, Quebec\, G1R 4H3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Memoir: How to Tell Your Story
DESCRIPTION:Each of us has a story to tell. We all have memories. But how do you take what you’ve experienced and turn it into something more than a conversation in a bar? How do you find the weight that is in each of our lives and stories? \n\n\n\nIn this workshop we’ll focus on transforming the personal into something that reaches beyond. \n\n\n\nHere’s a loose outline of how we’ll approach it. \n\n\n\nWeek 1 \n\n\n\nWhat is a story? What makes the telling a story and not just words spilling onto a page? \n\n\n\nWeek 2 \n\n\n\nHow to get at that story that burns within? \n\n\n\nWeek 3 \n\n\n\nThe hook\, part 1: First impressions are critical \n\n\n\nWeek 4 \n\n\n\nThe hook\, part 2: Developing the critical eye \n\n\n\nWeek 5 \n\n\n\nBeyond copy editing: How do you know which voice is the right voice? You have to listen carefully. The story knows. \n\n\n\nWeek 6 \n\n\n\nAttack 1: You’ve written your story. We’re here to tell you we don’t like it. What are you going to do about it? \n\n\n\nWeek 7 \n\n\n\nAttack 2: Why is the story not working – or\, better still\, why is it working? \n\n\n\nWeek 8 \n\n\n\nWriter vs Author: writing to write or writing to get published. Why it matters. \n\n\n\nAlong the way\, there will be exercises\, discussions\, writing\, revising\, reading of each other’s work\, and good fun. \n\n\n\nEddy L. Harris is a perpetual traveler\, a filmmaker and the author of seven critically acclaimed books\, all of which partake of memoir\, adventure tale\, travelogue and cultural reportage. \n\n\n\nHe spent four years as Writer-in-Residence at Washington University teaching Black American Literature and writing classes structured as workshops. That was followed by a stint on the Nez Perce Indian reservation in northern Idaho and a documentary project he wrote and presented for BBC-Wales: Roots In Wales. \n\n\n\nIn 2014 he repeated his canoe journey along the Mississippi River which resulted in the award-winning documentary film River to the Heart\, which he wrote\, produced\, and directed. \n\n\n\nHe has worked most recently as professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg\, Virginia \n\n\n\nAs USA Today put it: “Eddy Harris isn’t your everyday tourist. His travels almost always have a purpose\, and that purpose is to write about not only what he sees\, but what he feels.”
URL:https://qwf.org/event/memoir-how-to-tell-your-story/2024-03-11/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Unlock Your Filmmaking Dreams: A Short Film Screenwriting Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is not just about dreaming—it’s about doing. It’s about equipping you with the tools to transform your creative ideas into compelling short films. Here’s what you can expect to gain from this cooperative experience: \n\n\n\nLearn the fundamental skills of crafting engaging and impactful short film screenplays; the principles of character development\, plot structure\, and dialogue that will make your narrative resonate. Gain insights into the anatomy of a successful screenplays\, receive hands-on guidance on structuring your ideas\, ensuring your story flows seamlessly from start to finish and receive constructive feedback in a safe environment designed to cultivate a supportive community of fellow aspiring writers. \n\n\n\nAs you share your thoughts and insights\, you will develop the skill of giving and receiving positive\, constructive feedback to elevate your work and cultivate a supportive community of fellow writers. This will allow you to articulate your vision effectively\, convey the essence of your screenplay with impact and hone the art of pitching your ideas confidently and persuasively. \n\n\n\nHow to apply? \n\n\n\nSubmit your CV\, a paragraph detailing your previous creative writing experience and a paragraph describing the story you would like to develop as a screenplay of no more than ten script pages – equivalent to ten minutes of screen time. Adaptations of stories from other forms is encouraged. Send all your submissions materials in one email to Riley at riley@qwf.org with the subject line “For Jacob Potashnik” by Friday\, February 16. \n\n\n\nThrough a series of ten\, two-hour sessions\, you will identify and refine the core elements of your story and develop your ideas and receive constructive group feedback. You will progress from story idea to an outline\, treatment\, a dialogued version\, to your final draft screenplay. There is an emphasis on oral presentation of ideas and active participation for all participants. \n\n\n\nSeize Your Spot! Spaces are limited\, so act now to secure your place in this exciting QWF Short Film Screenwriting Workshop. \n\n\n\nJacob Potashnik is a screenwriter and producer and line-producer of documentaries\, television series\, commercials\, web content and films of every genre. In 2019\, Jacob co-produced\, “Pink Lake\,” a feature film which screened at international festivals in Vancouver\, Hamilton\, and Durban. Jacob won the WGC award for the best screenplay for\, “Stardom\,” co-written and directed by Denys Arcand. He is the author of\, “The Golem of Hampstead\, and Other Stories\,” a collection short-listed for the QWF/Concordia University First Book prize.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/unlock-your-filmmaking-dreams-a-short-film-screenwriting-workshop/2024-03-12/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: How to Get Translated or Publish Translations
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 13\, 202412:00–1:30 pm ESTOnline via Zoom (RSVP below for Zoom link)\n\n\n\nHave you ever wondered about the potential of getting your book translated? Or are you an aspiring translator with an idea for a project for which you’re unsure how to progress? \n\n\n\nQWF has you covered in this iteration of our Lunch and Learn series! Renowned translator and author Katia Grubisic (the most recent recipient of the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation) will lead us in this hour-and-a-half session\, where she goes over the lifecycle of publishing translations. \n\n\n\nExpand the reach of your artistic work by getting a high-level insider view into the wonderful world of literary translation. You are invited to bring all your questions. \n\n\n\nCome join us on the 13th of March from 12-1:30pm online via Zoom. Secure your spot by clicking on the RSVP button below\, and a Zoom link will be sent to you a few days before the session. \n\n\n\nThe Facilitator\n\n\n\nKatia Grubisic is a writer\, editor and translator whose work has appeared in various Canadian and international publications. Her collection What if red ran out was shortlisted for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and won the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book. \n\n\n\nHer book translations include Martine Delvaux’s White Out\, Stéphane Martelly’s Little Girl Gazelle\, and Marie-Claire Blais’s final novels. Her translations of David Clerson’s first novel\, Brothers\, and of A Cemetery for Bees\, by Alina Dumitrescu\, were shortlisted for Governor General’s Awards\, and her translation of Clerson’s short story collection\, To See Out the Night\, won the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/lunch-and-learn-how-to-get-translated-or-publish-translations/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Lunch & Learn,QWF Events
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SUMMARY:Edit Your Own Prose: The Art of Rewriting
DESCRIPTION:You’ve written a first draft of your novel or your memoir. You know you need to rework it\, but you’re stuck. It doesn’t quite work\, but you are not sure why. Rewriting the opening over and over isn’t helping. So\, what should you do?     \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, you’ll learn how to see your own work with an editor’s eye using tips\, tricks\, and hands-on exercises. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will focus on big-picture issues\, including story line\, character development\, and genre expectations\, and help you bring the story alive on the page through rhythm\, effective dialogue\, and language choices. \n\n\n\nThrough the course of the workshop\, you’ll learn how to: \n\n\n\n\nSpot common big-picture problems (info dumping\, “as you know\, Bob” explanations\, insufficient conflict\, misunderstanding genre conventions\, etc.)\n\n\n\nTrack character development (goals and motivation)\n\n\n\nSee the advantages and pitfalls of different points of view\n\n\n\nMake the most out of dialogue\n\n\n\nPlay with language and develop your imagination\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is geared toward fiction and creative nonfiction book-length manuscripts. \n\n\n\nBy the end of the workshop\, you’ll better understand what isn’t working in your manuscript and how to fix it\, and\, hopefully\, have learned to love the rewriting process.   \n\n\n\nMaria Schamis Turner is a freelance editor specializing in developmental editing and line editing for fiction and creative nonfiction. She is a founding editor and previous editor-in-chief and creative nonfiction editor of the literary magazine carte blanche. She worked for 10 years on literary projects for CBC Radio\, including as an editor for Canada Writes. She was also the producer of the true-story storytelling series This Really Happened and has taught numerous workshops on storytelling\, writing\, and editing.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/edit-your-own-prose-the-art-of-rewriting/2024-03-13/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Speaking Truth to Power: How to Write Non-Didactic Political Poetry
DESCRIPTION:This 8-week poetry workshop focuses on writing poetry that engages with social justice and politics without leaning too far into didacticism and prescriptiveness\, without sounding too preachy or like a chant in a march. This workshop intends to show writers how to subtly pack a punch into a poem that leaves the reader breathless\, surprised\, and moved. We will be doing this by exploring different formal approaches that will help add nuance and singularity to the poems we will be writing. \n\n\n\nEach week\, we’ll be discussing a different formal approach\, including: \n\n\n\n\nDirect address/letter poems\n\n\n\nFiltering through a lens\n\n\n\nWriter as expert\n\n\n\nResearch\n\n\n\nFound poetry/Erasure poetry\n\n\n\nVillanelle\, the ghazal\, and the power of repetition\n\n\n\nExperimental poetry\n\n\n\n\nWe will be doing so by reading and discussing poems that utilize specific formal approaches based on the topic set for the week. Some of the writers we will be reading include Hanif Abdurraqib\, Chen Chen\, Canisia Lubrin\, Trish Salah\, Tommy Pico\, Kay Gabriel\, Dionne Brand\, and Hala Alyan. \n\n\n\nFurthermore\, each week\, workshop participants will be given writing prompts that will help them learn about the different forms and formal approaches discussed. The prompts will guide the participants in attempting to write poems using that week’s form. Finally\, 1-2 writers will have their poems workshopped each week. Attendees will be asked to send in their poems a week in advance so that their peers can start workshopping the pieces at home a week in advance.This workshop is open to poets in any stage of their development\, whether they are new to writing or already have a writing practice. The goal of the workshop is for participants to leave the workshop with a deeper understanding of the ways form and craft can be used to write more impactful and unique poems that engage with social justice and undermine the white\, cis\, colonial patriarchal status quo. This workshop will be especially useful for writers who feel they have something to say but don’t know how to say it.Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a writer\, translator\, and acquisitions editor at Metonymy Press living in Tio’tia:ke. Their work has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 anthology\, The New Quarterly\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and elsewhere. Their book\, knot body\, published by Metatron Press in 2020\, was shortlisted for the QWF Concordia First Book Award\, and their second book\, The Good Arabs\, published by Metonymy Press in 2021\, was received honorary mention for the Arab American Book Awards and the Khayrallah Prize\, and won the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. Their translation of Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay’s La fille d’elle-même from the French was published in Spring 2023. With co-editor Samia Marshy\, they are editing El Ghourabaa\, an anthology of queer and trans writing by Arab and Arabophone writers\, forthcoming Spring 2024.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/speaking-truth-to-power-how-to-write-non-didactic-political-poetry/2024-03-13/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Ali Hassan Comes to the Eastern Townships
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Bishop’s University campus on Thursday\, March 14 for a very distinct speaker indeed!   \nAli Hassan – standup comedian\, actor and broadcaster – joins us for an illuminating talk about his memoir\, Is there Bacon in Heaven?  Throughout the talk\, Hassan navigates themes of identity\, belonging\, self-doubt\, family and health through deft and comedic storytelling. The book\, published by Simon & Schuster in 2022\, was described by Rick Mercer as “perhaps the funniest and most heartfelt Canadian memoir yet.”   This event takes place on March 14 at 6 pm in Bandeen Hall on Bishop’s University Campus\, with a Q&A and a free reception after the event for attendees. Books will be available for purchase\, but transactions are cash only.  Sponsored by the Ogden Glass Lecture Series and the Speakers’ Committee. For more information\, please contact Dr. Linda Morra at lmorra@ubishops.ca
URL:https://qwf.org/event/ali-hassan-comes-to-the-eastern-townships/
LOCATION:Bishop’s University\, 2600 College Street\, Sherbrooke\, Quebec\, J1M 1Z7\, Canada
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