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SUMMARY:Craft Meets Magic: The Alchemy of Short Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Is there an art form more maddening than the short story? Demanding the complexity of a novel\, the lyricism of a poem\, and the economy of a joke\, the work is tedious and the rewards  (for most of us) are slim. Still\, for us cursed few\, the short story is an addictive nut to crack. After all\, there’s little more thrilling than the prose of a writer who can do more with a handful of pages than most can do with 300. The complexity of a novel! The lyricism of a poem! The economy of a joke! \n\n\n\nJoin us\, if you dare\, for an 8-week workshop where participants will share and critique each other’s work with an eye towards craft. Specifically\, we will ask ourselves questions like\, “What are characters made of?” “How is a plot built?” “Do I really need to describe everything?” \n\n\n\nEqually important to studying these questions will be putting them aside\, as we celebrate and cultivate the magic that makes art artin the first place–that intangible whatever that defines our passion for fiction. After all\, what else do we have to keep us warm as we trudge through draft to draft? \n\n\n\nAs time allows\, we’ll also read stories by published authors like ZZ Packer\, Donald Barthelme\, Jhumpa Lahiri\, Joy Williams\, and George Saunders. Participants will be asked to read and prepare responses to a short story (distributed from me by email) prior to our first meeting. \n\n\n\nFrankie Barnet is the author of Mood Swings (McClelland & Stewart)\, which was a finalist for the Grand prix du livre de Montréal; Kim: A Novel Idea (Metatron); and An Indoor Kind of Girl (Metatron). Her work has appeared in places such as PRISM International\, EVENT\, Joyland\, The Erotic Review\, and Biblioasis’ Best Canadian Short Stories Anthology. She has an MFA from Syracuse University and lives in Montreal.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/craft-meets-magic-the-alchemy-of-short-fiction/2025-03-24/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Novel Essentials: The Art & Craft of Long-Form Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Have you had an itch to write a novel\, but haven’t known how to tackle such a large project? Now is the perfect time to dust off your ideas! This workshop is a boot camp for budding writers eager to turn their novelistic dream into a reality. From iron-clad structures and story tropes to the ins-and-outs of how character motivation pushes a great plot\, this 10-week intensive workshop will impart professional tips and tricks-of-the-trade essential to bringing long-form fiction to life. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will focus on practical knowledge not covered in a typical writing workshop: initial idea development; a deep dive on novelistic structure; how to build the perfect plot; character development and motivation; scene development; and how to handle secondary and tertiary characters\, to name a few. Each week\, you will learn one or more essential techniques and/or theories\, as well as participate in short\, practical exercises that will help you build your novel. As you master the elements\, you will have opportunities to develop and workshop your original novel concepts. \n\n\n\nWhile an emphasis will be placed on long-form writing\, all writers looking to master essential elements of fiction writing are encouraged to attend. You do not require prior workshop experience or an idea for a novel to take this workshop. Participants interested in developing fiction of all kinds are more than welcome! \n\n\n\nL. E. Sterling (Erin Vollick\, also published under L. E. Vollick) is the author of numerous novels spanning contemporary\, Young Adult\, fantasy\, science-fiction\, dystopian and romance genres. Her hit series\, the True Born Trilogy\, was optioned for television\, and True Born\, the first novel in the trilogy\, was recognized internationally with the 2017 Athena Award® in Young Adult literature. With a B.A. and M.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Literature\, Sterling taught creative writing and literature for many years. She has appeared at BookCon NYC\, the LA Times Festival of Books\, and Ad Astra.  
URL:https://qwf.org/event/novel-essentials-the-art-craft-of-long-form-fiction/2025-03-24/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Risk Management: Writing the Scene That Will Make or Break Your Story
DESCRIPTION:The late great author Dorothy Allison famously advised us all to “write to our fear.” Often\, though\, that brave act results in scenes and lines that reveal ourselves in ways that may make us cringe. We are tempted to cut or sanitize those moments\, but I’m here to ask if our stories and poems can be great – or even very good – if they don’t take some sort of calculated risk\, whether that risk be such a revealing scene or a disruptive image\, turn\, or shift in style. Furthermore\, once the text does take that risk\, can it ultimately be about anything else? How do we identify the “points of no return” in our work\, and how do we maximize their impact? We will begin by defining different types of risks fiction writers and poets take in their work and then discuss how the authors of various texts have managed and mitigated them. The goal is help us assess not only whether to take big chances in our work\, but when and how. Over the course of the hour\, we will discuss work by authors up and down the “risk” spectrum: Hanya Yanagihara\, Andre Aciman\, Sharon Olds\, Albert Goldbarth\, and Lucia Berlin\, among others. \n\n\n\nThere is no advance reading for this workshop\, but please come prepared to talk about a scene or “move” in one of your works of fiction or poetry that you consider “risky” or at least about which you have some anxiety or uncertainty. If nothing comes to mind\, please come prepared to discuss a work-in-progress that might benefit from a shake-up as a way of raising the stakes. \n\n\n\nChristopher Castellani is the author of four novels\, most recently Leading Men\, for which he received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, MacDowell\, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, among others. His book of essays on narration\, The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story\, is taught in many writing workshops. Christopher is a longtime member of the faculty of the Warren Wilson MFA program and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and a recent Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University. For his forthcoming novel\, Last Seen\, he was awarded a 2024 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Boston and Provincetown\, MA.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/risk-management-writing-the-scene-that-will-make-or-break-your-story/
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SUMMARY:More or Less: Minimalist & Maximalist Approaches to Fiction and Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Most aspiring writers are taught that\, when it comes to everything from descriptions to dialogue to interiority\, less is always more. But what if your instinctive sensibility is more expansive or discursive? Conversely\, what if you’re a naturally economical writer who sometimes feels strangled by this bias toward restraint and subtlety? In this craft workshop\, we will start with a brief overview of minimalist and maximalist approaches to fiction and poetry in history\, asking ourselves how and why these approaches have gone in and out of style. We will then look at a few texts by writers of literary fiction and poetry who have taken these approaches –  Susan Sontag\, Wayne Corbitt\, Rebecca Makkai\, and Octavia Butler\, among others – and used them to achieve deep emotional impact. Some of the questions we’ll explore: are the terms “minimalist” and “maximalist” even useful descriptors anymore and\, if not\, how can we make them so? How do we know which approaches are right for our own work?  \n\n\n\nThere is no advance reading necessary\, but please come with a hard copy or an electronic copy of the first page (300 words or so) of one of your own works of fiction\, or one poem\, and be willing to share them either with a partner or with the entire class. \n\n\n\nChristopher Castellani is the author of four novels\, most recently Leading Men\, for which he received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, MacDowell\, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, among others. His book of essays on narration\, The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story\, is taught in many writing workshops. Christopher is a longtime member of the faculty of the Warren Wilson MFA program and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and a recent Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University. For his forthcoming novel\, Last Seen\, he was awarded a 2024 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Boston and Provincetown\, MA.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/more-or-less-minimalist-maximalist-approaches-to-fiction-and-poetry/
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 21\, 2025\, 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you registered and can no longer attend\, please email john@qwf.org to notify us.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-in-person-33/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:“The Lives and Liveliness of Books”: Perspectives on Scholarly Publishing with Faith Wilson Stein 
DESCRIPTION:Friday March 21st 2025\, 11:30am-1:00pm McGill University\, 845 Sherbrooke Street West\, Ferrier 408\n\n\n\nHow do books come to life through publication? Please join Poetry Matters and Connected Academics for a professional development workshop with Faith Wilson Stein\, Senior Editor and Acquisitions Manager at Northwester University Press. What should a prospective author expect when working with an acquisitions editor? What kinds of career paths in academic publishing are possible for graduate students in the arts and humanities? This workshop is intended for graduate students\, postdoctoral fellows\, and early career researches who are interested in the worlds of publishing in and beyond academia.    \n\n\n\nFaith Wilson Stein began her career in publishing with positions at Slavic Review and Stanford University Press. As Senior Editor and Acquisitions Managing at Northwestern University Press\, she oversees projects from across the humanities\, including work in literary studies\, theater and performance studies\, and critical ethnic studies\, as well as select translations and crossover titles. Faith Wilson Stein holds a PhD in Comparative Literature with a focus in English\, Russian\, and French from the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-lives-and-liveliness-of-books-perspectives-on-scholarly-publishing-with-faith-wilson-stein/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Panel
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SUMMARY:ground\, field\, figure: poets and critics in relation 
DESCRIPTION:Thursday March 20th 2025\, 5pm-7pmRocket Science Room\, 170 Rue Jean-Talon O #204\n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to draw the work of living poets into the realm of critical commentary and conversation\, and what does it mean to be the poet whose work is thus drawn?  \n\n\n\nPlease join Poetry Matters for a conversation with Liz Howard (Concordia) and Sarah Dowling (University of Toronto) on being poets and critics in relation. Moderated by Carmen Faye Mathes (McGill)\, this event is at once a celebration of Dowling’s new book\, Here is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form and an opportunity to reflect on the grounds of poetic making with an award-winning poet. \n\n\n\nLiz Howard is an award-winning poet\, editor\, and teacher\, whose work explores Anishinaabe ways of knowing\, cosmology\, ecology\, and the liberatory potentials of language as art. Born and raised on Treaty 9 territory in Northern Ontario (Chapleau)\, she is of mixed settler and Anishinaabe heritage. She is the author of Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent\, which won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize\, and Letters in a Bruised Cosmos\, which was shortlisted for the Griffin in 2022. Howard’s work has been performed and published internationally as well as in translation. She is an assistant professor in English and Creative Writing at Concordia University. \n\n\n\nSarah Dowling is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature\, Women\, Gender\, and Sexual Studies at the University of Toronto whose research and teaching focus on language politics\, settler colonialism\, and contemporary writing. With a special interest in poems written between and across languages\, Dowling is the author of Translingual Poetics: Writing Personhood under Settler Colonialism (2018) as well as several books of poetry. Dowling’s new book\, Here is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form (2024)\, works across genres to explore figures of recumbency in contemporary writing.  
URL:https://qwf.org/event/ground-field-figure-poets-and-critics-in-relation/
LOCATION:Quebec
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SUMMARY:Don’t Quit Your Day Job…Yet: Freelance Writing for Print and Internet
DESCRIPTION:The Internet has boosted demand for articles\, photo features\, website text\, and niche content for both online and print outlets. The technical skills to post\, blog\, tweet\, and upload are common – especially amongst the younger generation! \n\n\n\nLess common\, however\, is the combination of these skills with the ability to write clear\, concise\, targeted\, interesting\, and well-structured prose suitable for small screens\, short attention spans\, F-pattern skim reading\, and search engines. \n\n\n\nConducted by a professional journalist\, author\, freelance writer and PR lecturer\, this workshop is designed to enhance the communications skills of freelancers\, publicists\, bloggers\, and other writers. It will also help you acquire the business and survival smarts you’ll need if you want to earn money from your writing. \n\n\n\nVariations of this workshop have been delivered online and live\, for credit and non-credit purposes at McGill University\, UCLA\, Shaanxi University\, and various arts groups. \n\n\n\nThrough discussions\, examples\, simulation exercises\, and peer review\, workshop sessions are conducted in a “real-life” context that aims to get participants published after the course. \n\n\n\nExercises are written and reviewed during sessions to mediate feedback and prepare participants to work within time limits. The instructor will set a main homework assignment\, to be reviewed before it’s submitted for publication: \n\n\n\n\nA third-person profile\, based on an interview\, which describes an interesting person\, their occupation and achievements.\n\n\n\n\nor \n\n\n\n\nA researched\, first-person narrative analyzing a subject of topical interest.\n\n\n\n\nSessions will cover all aspects of choosing\, planning\, pitching\, writing\, and editing the article. \n\n\n\nParticipants enrolling in this workshop should have a clear idea why they want to write\, what they want to write\, and for whom. They should also consider whether they intend to sell their writing to external outlets\, give it away\, or use it for personal\, career/business development. \n\n\n\nWorkshop schedule \n\n\n\nWeek 1 \n\n\n\n\nCourse introduction\n\n\n\nOvercoming writer’s block and generating story ideas\n\n\n\nChoosing the right topic at the right time\n\n\n\nDifferences between print and online writing\n\n\n\n\nWeek 2 \n\n\n\n\nAnalysis of techniques\, tone\, and content of publications\n\n\n\nInverted pyramid writing\n\n\n\nResearching and selecting relevant material\n\n\n\nSearch engine optimization\n\n\n\nOnline vs print reading patterns\n\n\n\n\nWeek 3 \n\n\n\n\nWriting catchy leads\, headings\, and subject lines\n\n\n\nBasic writing structures\n\n\n\nShow don’t tell – writing for the senses\n\n\n\nSimiles\, metaphors\, allusions\, and other writing devices\n\n\n\nCutting jargon and superfluous words\n\n\n\n\nWeek 4 \n\n\n\n\nInterviewing techniques and psychology\n\n\n\nTurning an interview into a profile\n\n\n\nUse of quotations\n\n\n\nChoosing a publication for your article\n\n\n\nPitching stories\n\n\n\n\nWeek 5 \n\n\n\n\nWorking with editors\n\n\n\nBuilding your network\n\n\n\nCaption writing\n\n\n\nSourcing\, choosing\, and editing pics\n\n\n\nTravel writing\n\n\n\n\nWeek 7 \n\n\n\n\nWriting as a business\n\n\n\nQuoting for jobs\n\n\n\nTax and invoice issues\n\n\n\nMarketing\n\n\n\nSelf-publishing\, hybrid publishing\n\n\n\n\nWeek 8 \n\n\n\n\nCourse review \n\n\n\nPreparation to submit workshop article for publication
URL:https://qwf.org/event/dont-quit-your-day-jobyet-freelance-writing-for-print-and-internet/2025-03-19/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Listening for the Poem
DESCRIPTION:This workshop engages poetry through a listening practice. \n\n\n\nListening shifts attention away from prosaic sense-making and toward poetic meaning-making. Through listening\, we can quiet our inner editorial voice\, make unexpected leaps of thought\, create new patterns of association\, and attune to the fullness—the timbre\, tone\, and sway—of any given moment. \n\n\n\nDeveloping a listening practice also carves out dedicated time\, space\, and attention for writing. Listening permits an encounter between you and your voice\, which emerges when you do not self-consciously construct it. Listening halts self-critical chatter\, allowing you to tune in to your natural rhythms\, embodied knowledge\, and inner language. \n\n\n\nYou will be invited to engage in a directed listening experience\, on your own time\, before each workshop. During this experience\, you will compose the poems that will be brought into workshop\, which will be spent reading new poems aloud and providing feedback on one another’s writing. The idea is that you will bring in new work during each session to share\, with writing taking place on your own time. Consequently\, this is a writing-intensive workshop. Short readings and audio files will be assigned\, and participants will need a recording device for one exercise (phone is OK). \n\n\n\nThe workshop will fully engage the intellect and life experiences of all the writers in the room as we talk shop about craft\, poetics\, and more. New work is privileged to demonstrate the limitless potential we have within us to create poetry—the potential to hear poetry in everyday life. \n\n\n\nJay Ritchie is an English PhD candidate at McGill University and holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Listening in Many Publics (Invisible Publishing\, 2024)\, which was a finalist for the QWF’s A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry\, and Cheer Up\, Jay Ritchie (Coach House Books\, 2017). He has taught creative writing at UMass and Bishop’s University. His writing and music have appeared in Maisonneuve\, SAND\, on CBC Radio One\, WMUA Amherst\, Frozen Section Radio\, at the PHI Centre\, and he performs expanded poetry readings using portable cassette players and field recordings.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/listening-for-the-poem/2025-03-19/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Make It Make Sense: Writing Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Writing a story about something that really happened seems like it should be easy: after all\, compared to something like fiction\, a lot of the work is already done for you. You already know what happens! But as anyone who has attempted to make art about their own life and experience can attest\, the practice can feel a lot more complicated when you actually get down to it. Life doesn’t always make sense — but a good story has to. \n\n\n\nLed by Tara McGowan-Ross\, the author of the Hilary Weston Prize-shortlisted memoir Nothing Will Be Different\, Make It Make Sense is a workshop that engages directly with the complicated questions that can impede creativity when writing about real life. What makes memoir different from other kinds of nonfiction? Why does writing about yourself honestly so often feel like lying through your teeth? What are the ethics of writing about other people? And what gives me the right\, in our complicated global environment\, to take up space telling my own story at all? \n\n\n\nThis workshop aims to foster a sense of confidence and capacity in a genre that is both highly marketable arts entertainment and powerful personal reflective practice. Participants will be asked to think critically about memoir from the perspective of both writer and reader in a discussion-based environment that features short lectures\, collaborative dialogue\, peer editing\, and revision to foster a sense of ease in one of the most fraught and risky modes of self-expression. \n\n\n\nMake It Make Sense is designed for writers of all skill levels who feel they are psychologically blocked in their memoir-writing practice. Participants will be encouraged to develop a solid foundation of confidence and understanding so that they can live with the sense of uncertainty (or even danger) that often makes this genre so challenging and exciting. Participants will be required to write a short piece for peer editing and workshop with their cohort and encouraged to revise that same piece based on feedback. Not all revised pieces will be workshopped.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/make-it-make-sense-writing-memoir/2025-03-18/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:So You’ve Written a Novel – Now What?
DESCRIPTION:The first time I typed THE END on a manuscript\, I didn’t know what to do next. There’s a lot of information and encouragement on HOW to write a book\, but not a lot on what to do after you’ve written the thing. And the advice you find online can be woefully misleading\, confusing\, or at its very worst —fraudulent. \n\n\n\nThis 8-week workshop aims to fully lay out the roadmap to traditional publishing for someone who’s finished\, or is close to finishing a fiction manuscript. The journey of getting your story from your laptop to an actual book you can pick up at Indigo follows a very specific series of steps. From landing an agent\, to signing with a publisher\, to contract details\, this course will take you\, in minute detail\, through every step\, with a centerpiece intensive workshop formulating your all-important Query Letter\, along with details on crafting your logline and your pitch kits. \n\n\n\nDesigned for absolute newbies to the world of publishing\, this workshop will offer you tips and tactics to maximize your chances at every step\, and by its end you should have the knowledge and confidence to approach this perilous enterprise knowing exactly what you need to do next. Because typing THE END is only the beginning. \n\n\n\nThere is no submission required prior to the first session\, but participants will be expected to write loglines and query letters and share them with the group as the workshop progresses. They will also be expected to read and critique each other’s work. \n\n\n\nToronto-born\, Montreal-based writer and illustrator Sherwin Sullivan Tjia has written many odd and eclectic books. Their 2005 collection of pseudohaikus\, The World is a Heartbreaker\, was a finalist for the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s A. M. Klein Award. Their 2010 graphic novel\, The Hipless Boy\, was a finalist for the Doug Wright Award for best emerging talent\, as well as being nominated for 4 Ignatz Awards. Their 2011 Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style book from the POV of a housecat entitled You Are a Cat! won that year’s Expozine Award for best English-language book. Their latest graphic novel entitled Plummet is about a woman who wakes up one day to find herself in literal\, perpetual freefall. It was optioned for animation and named one of CBC Books’ “Top 20 Graphic Novels of 2019.”
URL:https://qwf.org/event/so-youve-written-a-novel-now-what-2/2025-03-18/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Challenges Facing Writers of Middle Eastern Origin
DESCRIPTION:—The Groundwork for the Day After \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, April 27th\, 2025\, 2:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nPart of the 2025 Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival \n\n\n\nWriters of Middle Eastern origin living and working in the West face many challenges. One is supporting freedom struggles they believe in then being accused of supporting rogue factions or terrorism.  Another can be speaking their mind on local community issues that the mainstream audience does not connect with\, or\, staying silent to preserve their acceptance with readers and their relationship with publishing houses. Another struggle can be when publishers encourage them to portray exotic subjects and characters in unreal or artificial ways. Another struggle for some is the urge to write in their mother tongue\, where market is limited\, or in the languages of the land\, which may not be the language they think in.  \n\n\n\nA discussion between three writers on their works\, their origins and the various degrees of connection between the two. \n\n\n\nParticipants: Yara El-Ghadban\, Dimitri Nasrallah\, Rachad Antonius \n\n\n\nModerator: Ehab Lotayef
URL:https://qwf.org/event/challenges-facing-writers-of-middle-eastern-origin/
LOCATION:Hotel 10\, 10 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 4C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Panel
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SUMMARY:Craft Meets Magic: The Alchemy of Short Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Is there an art form more maddening than the short story? Demanding the complexity of a novel\, the lyricism of a poem\, and the economy of a joke\, the work is tedious and the rewards  (for most of us) are slim. Still\, for us cursed few\, the short story is an addictive nut to crack. After all\, there’s little more thrilling than the prose of a writer who can do more with a handful of pages than most can do with 300. The complexity of a novel! The lyricism of a poem! The economy of a joke! \n\n\n\nJoin us\, if you dare\, for an 8-week workshop where participants will share and critique each other’s work with an eye towards craft. Specifically\, we will ask ourselves questions like\, “What are characters made of?” “How is a plot built?” “Do I really need to describe everything?” \n\n\n\nEqually important to studying these questions will be putting them aside\, as we celebrate and cultivate the magic that makes art artin the first place–that intangible whatever that defines our passion for fiction. After all\, what else do we have to keep us warm as we trudge through draft to draft? \n\n\n\nAs time allows\, we’ll also read stories by published authors like ZZ Packer\, Donald Barthelme\, Jhumpa Lahiri\, Joy Williams\, and George Saunders. Participants will be asked to read and prepare responses to a short story (distributed from me by email) prior to our first meeting. \n\n\n\nFrankie Barnet is the author of Mood Swings (McClelland & Stewart)\, which was a finalist for the Grand prix du livre de Montréal; Kim: A Novel Idea (Metatron); and An Indoor Kind of Girl (Metatron). Her work has appeared in places such as PRISM International\, EVENT\, Joyland\, The Erotic Review\, and Biblioasis’ Best Canadian Short Stories Anthology. She has an MFA from Syracuse University and lives in Montreal.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/craft-meets-magic-the-alchemy-of-short-fiction/2025-03-17/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Novel Essentials: The Art & Craft of Long-Form Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Have you had an itch to write a novel\, but haven’t known how to tackle such a large project? Now is the perfect time to dust off your ideas! This workshop is a boot camp for budding writers eager to turn their novelistic dream into a reality. From iron-clad structures and story tropes to the ins-and-outs of how character motivation pushes a great plot\, this 10-week intensive workshop will impart professional tips and tricks-of-the-trade essential to bringing long-form fiction to life. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will focus on practical knowledge not covered in a typical writing workshop: initial idea development; a deep dive on novelistic structure; how to build the perfect plot; character development and motivation; scene development; and how to handle secondary and tertiary characters\, to name a few. Each week\, you will learn one or more essential techniques and/or theories\, as well as participate in short\, practical exercises that will help you build your novel. As you master the elements\, you will have opportunities to develop and workshop your original novel concepts. \n\n\n\nWhile an emphasis will be placed on long-form writing\, all writers looking to master essential elements of fiction writing are encouraged to attend. You do not require prior workshop experience or an idea for a novel to take this workshop. Participants interested in developing fiction of all kinds are more than welcome! \n\n\n\nL. E. Sterling (Erin Vollick\, also published under L. E. Vollick) is the author of numerous novels spanning contemporary\, Young Adult\, fantasy\, science-fiction\, dystopian and romance genres. Her hit series\, the True Born Trilogy\, was optioned for television\, and True Born\, the first novel in the trilogy\, was recognized internationally with the 2017 Athena Award® in Young Adult literature. With a B.A. and M.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Literature\, Sterling taught creative writing and literature for many years. She has appeared at BookCon NYC\, the LA Times Festival of Books\, and Ad Astra.  
URL:https://qwf.org/event/novel-essentials-the-art-craft-of-long-form-fiction/2025-03-17/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:The Magic & the Nitty-gritty of Writing Prose
DESCRIPTION:This two-day workshop is for writers of prose (fiction or nonfiction) seeking to make the most of their writing practice and create quality\, publishable work. It is geared to both beginner and intermediate writers. \n\n\n\nDuring the course of two consecutive Saturdays\, the workshop will explore: \n\n\n\n\nThe magic of the creative process\n\n\n\n\nThe impulse to write is personal\, intangible\, and beautiful. It is also often fraught with obstacles\, such as a lack of focus or time\, and fear. The workshop will include a review of bolstering techniques to enhance and energize your writing practice. \n\n\n\n\nThe nitty-gritty of storytelling\n\n\n\n\nThe workshop will cover the craft of writing\, with an intensive review of the fundamentals of narrative prose. Topics include characterization and voice\, pacing and structure\, time and setting\, suspense and drama\, and how to refine your work through redrafting and editing with a view to being published. \n\n\n\nOptional: Participants will be invited to submit up to one page (double-spaced) of an opening to a story\, essay\, or chapter. Each submission will be discussed during the final day of the workshop in a friendly\, respectful\, and inclusive manner. \n\n\n\nThere will also be ample opportunities for writers to share their preoccupations and ask questions. By the end of the second Saturday\, participants should leave with a toolkit for pursuing artistic excellence and a strengthened sense of confidence. \n\n\n\nCora Siré is a novelist\, poet\, and short story writer. She is the author of five books\, including Fear the Mirror (Véhicule Press\, 2021)\, a hybrid collection of stories and memoir. Her novel\, Behold Things Beautiful\, was a finalist for the 2017 QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. \n\n\n\nCora’s stories\, essays\, and poems have appeared in many anthologies and magazines in Canada\, the US\, Mexico\, and Europe. Her work has been translated into French and Spanish. Based in Montréal\, she often writes of elsewheres\, drawing on her encounters in faraway places and her family’s history of displacement.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-magic-the-nitty-gritty-of-writing-prose/2025-03-15/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 15\, 2025\, 10:00 am–12:30 pm ETOnline 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-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\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 begins. If there is no option to RSVP\, RSVPs are closed.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-virtual-30/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Shut Up & Write!
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SUMMARY:Inspired Writing Retreat
DESCRIPTION:The Inspired Writing Retreat has been running at the beautiful Chateau de Bossey\, near Geneva\, Switzerland\, since 2017. QWF member Daniela Norris is one of its founding members and she warmly invites you to this event on the 15-16 March\, 2025. More details here https://lingurib.wixsite.com/inspiredwriting/about \n\n\n\nQWF Member Discount: Inspired Writing is offering a 10% discount to QWF members who sign up by 10 March. Use coupon code QWF2025 to get the discount. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://qwf.org/event/inspired-writing-retreat/
LOCATION:Château de Bossey\, Chem. Chenevière 2\, 1279 Bogis-Bossey\, Switzerland
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:Don’t Quit Your Day Job…Yet: Freelance Writing for Print and Internet
DESCRIPTION:The Internet has boosted demand for articles\, photo features\, website text\, and niche content for both online and print outlets. The technical skills to post\, blog\, tweet\, and upload are common – especially amongst the younger generation! \n\n\n\nLess common\, however\, is the combination of these skills with the ability to write clear\, concise\, targeted\, interesting\, and well-structured prose suitable for small screens\, short attention spans\, F-pattern skim reading\, and search engines. \n\n\n\nConducted by a professional journalist\, author\, freelance writer and PR lecturer\, this workshop is designed to enhance the communications skills of freelancers\, publicists\, bloggers\, and other writers. It will also help you acquire the business and survival smarts you’ll need if you want to earn money from your writing. \n\n\n\nVariations of this workshop have been delivered online and live\, for credit and non-credit purposes at McGill University\, UCLA\, Shaanxi University\, and various arts groups. \n\n\n\nThrough discussions\, examples\, simulation exercises\, and peer review\, workshop sessions are conducted in a “real-life” context that aims to get participants published after the course. \n\n\n\nExercises are written and reviewed during sessions to mediate feedback and prepare participants to work within time limits. The instructor will set a main homework assignment\, to be reviewed before it’s submitted for publication: \n\n\n\n\nA third-person profile\, based on an interview\, which describes an interesting person\, their occupation and achievements.\n\n\n\n\nor \n\n\n\n\nA researched\, first-person narrative analyzing a subject of topical interest.\n\n\n\n\nSessions will cover all aspects of choosing\, planning\, pitching\, writing\, and editing the article. \n\n\n\nParticipants enrolling in this workshop should have a clear idea why they want to write\, what they want to write\, and for whom. They should also consider whether they intend to sell their writing to external outlets\, give it away\, or use it for personal\, career/business development. \n\n\n\nWorkshop schedule \n\n\n\nWeek 1 \n\n\n\n\nCourse introduction\n\n\n\nOvercoming writer’s block and generating story ideas\n\n\n\nChoosing the right topic at the right time\n\n\n\nDifferences between print and online writing\n\n\n\n\nWeek 2 \n\n\n\n\nAnalysis of techniques\, tone\, and content of publications\n\n\n\nInverted pyramid writing\n\n\n\nResearching and selecting relevant material\n\n\n\nSearch engine optimization\n\n\n\nOnline vs print reading patterns\n\n\n\n\nWeek 3 \n\n\n\n\nWriting catchy leads\, headings\, and subject lines\n\n\n\nBasic writing structures\n\n\n\nShow don’t tell – writing for the senses\n\n\n\nSimiles\, metaphors\, allusions\, and other writing devices\n\n\n\nCutting jargon and superfluous words\n\n\n\n\nWeek 4 \n\n\n\n\nInterviewing techniques and psychology\n\n\n\nTurning an interview into a profile\n\n\n\nUse of quotations\n\n\n\nChoosing a publication for your article\n\n\n\nPitching stories\n\n\n\n\nWeek 5 \n\n\n\n\nWorking with editors\n\n\n\nBuilding your network\n\n\n\nCaption writing\n\n\n\nSourcing\, choosing\, and editing pics\n\n\n\nTravel writing\n\n\n\n\nWeek 7 \n\n\n\n\nWriting as a business\n\n\n\nQuoting for jobs\n\n\n\nTax and invoice issues\n\n\n\nMarketing\n\n\n\nSelf-publishing\, hybrid publishing\n\n\n\n\nWeek 8 \n\n\n\n\nCourse review \n\n\n\nPreparation to submit workshop article for publication
URL:https://qwf.org/event/dont-quit-your-day-jobyet-freelance-writing-for-print-and-internet/2025-03-12/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Listening for the Poem
DESCRIPTION:This workshop engages poetry through a listening practice. \n\n\n\nListening shifts attention away from prosaic sense-making and toward poetic meaning-making. Through listening\, we can quiet our inner editorial voice\, make unexpected leaps of thought\, create new patterns of association\, and attune to the fullness—the timbre\, tone\, and sway—of any given moment. \n\n\n\nDeveloping a listening practice also carves out dedicated time\, space\, and attention for writing. Listening permits an encounter between you and your voice\, which emerges when you do not self-consciously construct it. Listening halts self-critical chatter\, allowing you to tune in to your natural rhythms\, embodied knowledge\, and inner language. \n\n\n\nYou will be invited to engage in a directed listening experience\, on your own time\, before each workshop. During this experience\, you will compose the poems that will be brought into workshop\, which will be spent reading new poems aloud and providing feedback on one another’s writing. The idea is that you will bring in new work during each session to share\, with writing taking place on your own time. Consequently\, this is a writing-intensive workshop. Short readings and audio files will be assigned\, and participants will need a recording device for one exercise (phone is OK). \n\n\n\nThe workshop will fully engage the intellect and life experiences of all the writers in the room as we talk shop about craft\, poetics\, and more. New work is privileged to demonstrate the limitless potential we have within us to create poetry—the potential to hear poetry in everyday life. \n\n\n\nJay Ritchie is an English PhD candidate at McGill University and holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Listening in Many Publics (Invisible Publishing\, 2024)\, which was a finalist for the QWF’s A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry\, and Cheer Up\, Jay Ritchie (Coach House Books\, 2017). He has taught creative writing at UMass and Bishop’s University. His writing and music have appeared in Maisonneuve\, SAND\, on CBC Radio One\, WMUA Amherst\, Frozen Section Radio\, at the PHI Centre\, and he performs expanded poetry readings using portable cassette players and field recordings.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/listening-for-the-poem/2025-03-12/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Blue Metropolis: 2025 Spring Program Unveiling
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 12\, 2025\, 4:30 pm ETHôtel 10\, Espace Godin10 Sherbrooke St. W.\, Montreal\n\n\n\nJoin us as we unveil the 2025 program of the Blue Metropolis Festival. We can’t wait to share with you the highlights of this year’s edition. Be among the first to discover our line-up of guests and the highlights of our spring edition. \n\n\n\nAfter the unveiling of the programming\, stick around for the launch of the Spring issue of Montreal Review of Books\, with readings by Rachel McCrum\, Oana Avasilichioaei and Leila Marshy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nView on blue Met Website
URL:https://qwf.org/event/blue-metropolis-2025-spring-program-unveiling/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Festival
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SUMMARY:Montreal Review of Books Spring 2025 Issue Launch
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 12\, 2025\, 6:00 pm ETHôtel 10\, Espace Godin10 Sherbrooke St. W.\, Montreal\n\n\n\nThe Montreal Review of Books launches its Spring 2025 issue on Wednesday\, March 12th at Hotel 10 (10 Sherbrooke Street West) in partnership with the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival! Following the festival’s 2025 programming announcement\, join us in Espace Godin for refreshments and readings by Leila Marshy (My Thievery of the People\, Baraka Books)\, Rachel McCrum (La belle-mère / The Stepmother\, l’Hexagone) and Oana Avasilichioaei (Chambersonic\, Talonbooks). \n\n\n\nThe Blue Metropolis press conference will begin at 4:30 p.m.\, followed by a wine reception at 5:15 p.m.\, and mRb readings beginning at 6:00. The authors will be available to sign books after the readings. Admission is free. \n\n\n\nFor those unable to attend in person\, readings will be live-streamed on our YouTube page: https://youtube.com/live/Qmvu6tSMBIA
URL:https://qwf.org/event/montreal-review-of-books-spring-2025-issue-launch/
LOCATION:Hotel 10\, 10 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 4C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events,Reading
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SUMMARY:Make It Make Sense: Writing Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Writing a story about something that really happened seems like it should be easy: after all\, compared to something like fiction\, a lot of the work is already done for you. You already know what happens! But as anyone who has attempted to make art about their own life and experience can attest\, the practice can feel a lot more complicated when you actually get down to it. Life doesn’t always make sense — but a good story has to. \n\n\n\nLed by Tara McGowan-Ross\, the author of the Hilary Weston Prize-shortlisted memoir Nothing Will Be Different\, Make It Make Sense is a workshop that engages directly with the complicated questions that can impede creativity when writing about real life. What makes memoir different from other kinds of nonfiction? Why does writing about yourself honestly so often feel like lying through your teeth? What are the ethics of writing about other people? And what gives me the right\, in our complicated global environment\, to take up space telling my own story at all? \n\n\n\nThis workshop aims to foster a sense of confidence and capacity in a genre that is both highly marketable arts entertainment and powerful personal reflective practice. Participants will be asked to think critically about memoir from the perspective of both writer and reader in a discussion-based environment that features short lectures\, collaborative dialogue\, peer editing\, and revision to foster a sense of ease in one of the most fraught and risky modes of self-expression. \n\n\n\nMake It Make Sense is designed for writers of all skill levels who feel they are psychologically blocked in their memoir-writing practice. Participants will be encouraged to develop a solid foundation of confidence and understanding so that they can live with the sense of uncertainty (or even danger) that often makes this genre so challenging and exciting. Participants will be required to write a short piece for peer editing and workshop with their cohort and encouraged to revise that same piece based on feedback. Not all revised pieces will be workshopped.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/make-it-make-sense-writing-memoir/2025-03-11/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:So You’ve Written a Novel – Now What?
DESCRIPTION:The first time I typed THE END on a manuscript\, I didn’t know what to do next. There’s a lot of information and encouragement on HOW to write a book\, but not a lot on what to do after you’ve written the thing. And the advice you find online can be woefully misleading\, confusing\, or at its very worst —fraudulent. \n\n\n\nThis 8-week workshop aims to fully lay out the roadmap to traditional publishing for someone who’s finished\, or is close to finishing a fiction manuscript. The journey of getting your story from your laptop to an actual book you can pick up at Indigo follows a very specific series of steps. From landing an agent\, to signing with a publisher\, to contract details\, this course will take you\, in minute detail\, through every step\, with a centerpiece intensive workshop formulating your all-important Query Letter\, along with details on crafting your logline and your pitch kits. \n\n\n\nDesigned for absolute newbies to the world of publishing\, this workshop will offer you tips and tactics to maximize your chances at every step\, and by its end you should have the knowledge and confidence to approach this perilous enterprise knowing exactly what you need to do next. Because typing THE END is only the beginning. \n\n\n\nThere is no submission required prior to the first session\, but participants will be expected to write loglines and query letters and share them with the group as the workshop progresses. They will also be expected to read and critique each other’s work. \n\n\n\nToronto-born\, Montreal-based writer and illustrator Sherwin Sullivan Tjia has written many odd and eclectic books. Their 2005 collection of pseudohaikus\, The World is a Heartbreaker\, was a finalist for the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s A. M. Klein Award. Their 2010 graphic novel\, The Hipless Boy\, was a finalist for the Doug Wright Award for best emerging talent\, as well as being nominated for 4 Ignatz Awards. Their 2011 Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style book from the POV of a housecat entitled You Are a Cat! won that year’s Expozine Award for best English-language book. Their latest graphic novel entitled Plummet is about a woman who wakes up one day to find herself in literal\, perpetual freefall. It was optioned for animation and named one of CBC Books’ “Top 20 Graphic Novels of 2019.”
URL:https://qwf.org/event/so-youve-written-a-novel-now-what-2/2025-03-11/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Craft Meets Magic: The Alchemy of Short Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Is there an art form more maddening than the short story? Demanding the complexity of a novel\, the lyricism of a poem\, and the economy of a joke\, the work is tedious and the rewards  (for most of us) are slim. Still\, for us cursed few\, the short story is an addictive nut to crack. After all\, there’s little more thrilling than the prose of a writer who can do more with a handful of pages than most can do with 300. The complexity of a novel! The lyricism of a poem! The economy of a joke! \n\n\n\nJoin us\, if you dare\, for an 8-week workshop where participants will share and critique each other’s work with an eye towards craft. Specifically\, we will ask ourselves questions like\, “What are characters made of?” “How is a plot built?” “Do I really need to describe everything?” \n\n\n\nEqually important to studying these questions will be putting them aside\, as we celebrate and cultivate the magic that makes art artin the first place–that intangible whatever that defines our passion for fiction. After all\, what else do we have to keep us warm as we trudge through draft to draft? \n\n\n\nAs time allows\, we’ll also read stories by published authors like ZZ Packer\, Donald Barthelme\, Jhumpa Lahiri\, Joy Williams\, and George Saunders. Participants will be asked to read and prepare responses to a short story (distributed from me by email) prior to our first meeting. \n\n\n\nFrankie Barnet is the author of Mood Swings (McClelland & Stewart)\, which was a finalist for the Grand prix du livre de Montréal; Kim: A Novel Idea (Metatron); and An Indoor Kind of Girl (Metatron). Her work has appeared in places such as PRISM International\, EVENT\, Joyland\, The Erotic Review\, and Biblioasis’ Best Canadian Short Stories Anthology. She has an MFA from Syracuse University and lives in Montreal.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/craft-meets-magic-the-alchemy-of-short-fiction/2025-03-10/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Novel Essentials: The Art & Craft of Long-Form Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Have you had an itch to write a novel\, but haven’t known how to tackle such a large project? Now is the perfect time to dust off your ideas! This workshop is a boot camp for budding writers eager to turn their novelistic dream into a reality. From iron-clad structures and story tropes to the ins-and-outs of how character motivation pushes a great plot\, this 10-week intensive workshop will impart professional tips and tricks-of-the-trade essential to bringing long-form fiction to life. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will focus on practical knowledge not covered in a typical writing workshop: initial idea development; a deep dive on novelistic structure; how to build the perfect plot; character development and motivation; scene development; and how to handle secondary and tertiary characters\, to name a few. Each week\, you will learn one or more essential techniques and/or theories\, as well as participate in short\, practical exercises that will help you build your novel. As you master the elements\, you will have opportunities to develop and workshop your original novel concepts. \n\n\n\nWhile an emphasis will be placed on long-form writing\, all writers looking to master essential elements of fiction writing are encouraged to attend. You do not require prior workshop experience or an idea for a novel to take this workshop. Participants interested in developing fiction of all kinds are more than welcome! \n\n\n\nL. E. Sterling (Erin Vollick\, also published under L. E. Vollick) is the author of numerous novels spanning contemporary\, Young Adult\, fantasy\, science-fiction\, dystopian and romance genres. Her hit series\, the True Born Trilogy\, was optioned for television\, and True Born\, the first novel in the trilogy\, was recognized internationally with the 2017 Athena Award® in Young Adult literature. With a B.A. and M.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Literature\, Sterling taught creative writing and literature for many years. She has appeared at BookCon NYC\, the LA Times Festival of Books\, and Ad Astra.  
URL:https://qwf.org/event/novel-essentials-the-art-craft-of-long-form-fiction/2025-03-10/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:The Magic & the Nitty-gritty of Writing Prose
DESCRIPTION:This two-day workshop is for writers of prose (fiction or nonfiction) seeking to make the most of their writing practice and create quality\, publishable work. It is geared to both beginner and intermediate writers. \n\n\n\nDuring the course of two consecutive Saturdays\, the workshop will explore: \n\n\n\n\nThe magic of the creative process\n\n\n\n\nThe impulse to write is personal\, intangible\, and beautiful. It is also often fraught with obstacles\, such as a lack of focus or time\, and fear. The workshop will include a review of bolstering techniques to enhance and energize your writing practice. \n\n\n\n\nThe nitty-gritty of storytelling\n\n\n\n\nThe workshop will cover the craft of writing\, with an intensive review of the fundamentals of narrative prose. Topics include characterization and voice\, pacing and structure\, time and setting\, suspense and drama\, and how to refine your work through redrafting and editing with a view to being published. \n\n\n\nOptional: Participants will be invited to submit up to one page (double-spaced) of an opening to a story\, essay\, or chapter. Each submission will be discussed during the final day of the workshop in a friendly\, respectful\, and inclusive manner. \n\n\n\nThere will also be ample opportunities for writers to share their preoccupations and ask questions. By the end of the second Saturday\, participants should leave with a toolkit for pursuing artistic excellence and a strengthened sense of confidence. \n\n\n\nCora Siré is a novelist\, poet\, and short story writer. She is the author of five books\, including Fear the Mirror (Véhicule Press\, 2021)\, a hybrid collection of stories and memoir. Her novel\, Behold Things Beautiful\, was a finalist for the 2017 QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. \n\n\n\nCora’s stories\, essays\, and poems have appeared in many anthologies and magazines in Canada\, the US\, Mexico\, and Europe. Her work has been translated into French and Spanish. Based in Montréal\, she often writes of elsewheres\, drawing on her encounters in faraway places and her family’s history of displacement.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-magic-the-nitty-gritty-of-writing-prose/2025-03-08/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 7\, 2025\, 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-32/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Shut Up & Write!
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SUMMARY:Poets for the Montreal Tenants' Union (SLAM-MATU)
DESCRIPTION:A benefit night of poetry & music for the Montreal Autonomous Tenants’ Union / Syndicat des locataries Mtl (SLAM-MATU). \n\n\n\nWith:Ahmad Al-khatatAlex SadeumBryan SentesDarby Minott BradfordDeanna RadfordGeorge SlobodzianKelly Norah DrukkerMarilou CraftNorman NawrockiIanna Book (musique ambiante) \n\n\n\nPWYC suggested donation: $5-$20
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poets-for-the-montreal-tenants-union-matu/
LOCATION:Bar Milton-Parc Co-op\, 3714 avenue du Parc\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Reading
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Black Cake\, Turtle Soup\, and Other Dilemmas
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore for the highly anticipated Montreal launch of Black Cake\, Turtle Soup\, and Other Dilemmas! This special event offers a unique opportunity to celebrate literature\, storytelling\, and the voices that shape our cultural narratives. \n\n\n\nEnjoy an evening of live readings\, an engaging discussion\, and a Q&A session with the author\, who will delve into the themes of the book and its powerful storytelling. As we approach International Women’s Day\, this event will spark meaningful conversations about identity\, heritage\, and the experiences of women in literature. \n\n\n\nDon’t miss your chance to meet the author\, get a signed copy\, and connect with fellow book lovers in an intimate and welcoming setting.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-black-cake-turtle-soup-and-other-dilemmas/
LOCATION:Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore\, 2220 McGill College Ave\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 3P9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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SUMMARY:Write to Win! Young Writers’ Contest Writing Party
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 6\, 2025\, 3:30–6:00 pm ETGrades 3 to 6; bilingual. Registration required. \n\n\n\nStories are due tomorrow (Friday March 7)! Still need help or inspiration? Submit your story or poem to the Roslyn and Max Margles Young Writers’ Contest\, or write one today with help from author Monique Polak (3:30-5:30). Snacks will be served!  \n\n\n\nNote: The contest deadline has been extended to Monday\, March 17. Everyone who submits is entered to win a Jansport backpack along with all the other great prizes that go with winning the contest!  
URL:https://qwf.org/event/write-to-win-young-writers-contest-writing-party/
LOCATION:Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc Public Library\, 5851 Cavendish Blvd\, Côte Saint-Luc\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,QWF Events
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