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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:Free\, open to QWF members \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\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\nIf you registered for the session but can no longer attend\, please email john@qwf.org. \nIf the session is full\, email john@qwf.org to be put on the waitlist.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-in-person-61/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Shut Up & Write!
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SUMMARY:Borderlands: A QWF Springtime Writing Workshop in the Eastern Townships
DESCRIPTION:Borderlands are in-between places\, neither here nor there\, yet shot through with newness\, variability\, and change. Borders can be physical or spiritual. They can feel exciting or uncomfortable. They hold an element of uncertainty. \n\n\n\nThis writing workshop takes place over two three-hour Saturday sessions in Sutton\, Quebec. Sutton is a few minutes from the US border\, whose troubled or untroubled status has known eras filled with bloodshed\, sorrow\, and filial love and has experienced complex tensions today. Those of us who once crossed that border for an ice cream cone and a joyful waterfall swim may have a very different relationship with it now. \n\n\n\nSimilarly\, our own interior border crossings are fertile with meaning: perhaps you are navigating a border between youth and age\, or between health and frailty. Maybe you are in a process of losing or seeking something that profoundly affects how you are positioned in the world. Or maybe the past and the future have begun to feel intertwined instead of delineated\, thus altering time itself. \n\n\n\nThis writing workshop will give you space and time to think and write about borderlands—interior or exterior—in your current experience. We will use conversation\, art supplies\, writing prompts\, and writing materials to compose fluid-genre writing that helps us inhabit the uncertainty of the in-between places in our lives\, with curiosity and hope rather than resistance or fear. Please bring coloured pens or pencils and something on which to write\, such as paper or a notebook. \n\n\n\nOnce you have registered\, please send a brief description of no more than 250 words of a place you know or remember—a place that makes you feel something—to riley@qwf.org. The subject line should read “For Kathleen Winter.” \n\n\n\nKathleen Winter writes novels\, short stories\, memoir\, and essays. These include the novel\, Annabel\, and the Arctic memoir\, Boundless (Anansi)\, both of which won or were shortlisted for multiple Canadian and international awards. Her latest novel\, Undersong (Knopf Canada)\, is inspired by Dorothy Wordsworth’s late unpublished diaries. She is currently working on a book of poetry about a local mountain and its non-human voices. Winter was born in the U.K.\, grew up in Newfoundland\, and in 2010 moved with her family to Montreal. For the past five years she has lived in Sutton\, in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/borderlands-a-qwf-springtime-writing-workshop-in-the-eastern-townships/2026-05-30/
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SUMMARY:Borderlands: A QWF Springtime Writing Workshop in the Eastern Townships
DESCRIPTION:Borderlands are in-between places\, neither here nor there\, yet shot through with newness\, variability\, and change. Borders can be physical or spiritual. They can feel exciting or uncomfortable. They hold an element of uncertainty. \n\n\n\nThis writing workshop takes place over two three-hour Saturday sessions in Sutton\, Quebec. Sutton is a few minutes from the US border\, whose troubled or untroubled status has known eras filled with bloodshed\, sorrow\, and filial love and has experienced complex tensions today. Those of us who once crossed that border for an ice cream cone and a joyful waterfall swim may have a very different relationship with it now. \n\n\n\nSimilarly\, our own interior border crossings are fertile with meaning: perhaps you are navigating a border between youth and age\, or between health and frailty. Maybe you are in a process of losing or seeking something that profoundly affects how you are positioned in the world. Or maybe the past and the future have begun to feel intertwined instead of delineated\, thus altering time itself. \n\n\n\nThis writing workshop will give you space and time to think and write about borderlands—interior or exterior—in your current experience. We will use conversation\, art supplies\, writing prompts\, and writing materials to compose fluid-genre writing that helps us inhabit the uncertainty of the in-between places in our lives\, with curiosity and hope rather than resistance or fear. Please bring coloured pens or pencils and something on which to write\, such as paper or a notebook. \n\n\n\nOnce you have registered\, please send a brief description of no more than 250 words of a place you know or remember—a place that makes you feel something—to riley@qwf.org. The subject line should read “For Kathleen Winter.” \n\n\n\nKathleen Winter writes novels\, short stories\, memoir\, and essays. These include the novel\, Annabel\, and the Arctic memoir\, Boundless (Anansi)\, both of which won or were shortlisted for multiple Canadian and international awards. Her latest novel\, Undersong (Knopf Canada)\, is inspired by Dorothy Wordsworth’s late unpublished diaries. She is currently working on a book of poetry about a local mountain and its non-human voices. Winter was born in the U.K.\, grew up in Newfoundland\, and in 2010 moved with her family to Montreal. For the past five years she has lived in Sutton\, in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/borderlands-a-qwf-springtime-writing-workshop-in-the-eastern-townships/2026-06-06/
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SUMMARY:Cloud Circuit album launch
DESCRIPTION:Join poet Deanna Radford and musician Jeremy Young\, aka Cloud Circuit\, on Saturday\, June 20\, for the launch of their debut full-length album of spoken word and sound on Watch That Ends the Night Records. The duo will be marking the vinyl release of the album and performing as part of this year’s Watch That Ends the Night Records showcase at Montréal’s Suoni Per Il Popolo festival. The event will include performances by labelmates: Lacopo\, pinksnail\, aniqa dear\, and Michael Cloud Duguay with Andrew Mackelvie. Cloud Circuit’s album will be available digitally on Bandcamp as of Friday\, June 12. \nSaturday\, June 2o\, 2026\nDoors: 7:30 pm\, performances start: 8:00 pm\nTickets: $15+ fees & taxes advance\, $22 at the door. 18+.\nLa Sotterenea\, 4848 boul St-Laurent\, Montreal\, QC (basement of La Sala Rossa) \nhttps://cloudcircuit.ca\nhttps://cloudcircuit.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-circuit\nhttps://watchthatendsthenight.bandcamp.com/music
URL:https://qwf.org/event/cloud-circuit-album-launch/
LOCATION:La Sotteranea\, 4848 Boulevard Saint-Laurent\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 1R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:2026 QWF Awards Gala
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 9\, 2026\n\n\n\nSave the date! On the evening of November 9\, the Cabaret Lion d’Or in Montreal will transform into a spellbinding celebration of literary excellence in Quebec. Join us as reveal the winners of the 2026 QWF Literary Awards in the categories of fiction\, non-fiction\, poetry\, first book\, translation\, playwriting\, spoken word\, and children’s and young adult literature. \n\n\n\nDetails to come.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/2026-qwf-awards-gala/
LOCATION:Cabaret Lion d’Or\, 1676 Ontario St East\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2L1S7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,QWF Events
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SUMMARY:Ireland Castle Writing Retreat 2027
DESCRIPTION:Join CMarie Fuhrman (workshop leader) for a week in an Irish castle\, November 5-12\, 2027. Details: https://www.nature-culture.net/ireland-castle-retreat-2027
URL:https://qwf.org/event/ireland-castle-writing-retreat-2027/
LOCATION:Drumcollogher\, County Limerick\, Ireland\, Springfield Castle\, Drumcollogher\, County Limerick\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Retreat
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