Quebec Writers' Federation

Shut Up & Write! with QWF (Virtual)
2025-12-06 10:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
Saturday, December 6, 2025, 10:00 am–12:30 pm ETOnline via Zoom—RSVP below to receive the Zoom link

Looking for some dedicated, quiet writing space?

Register below to do all that writing you’ve been meaning to do. Using the Pomodoro technique, participants write in 25-minute bursts, with 5-minute breaks in between.

This event is for QWF members only. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member.

The Zoom link will be sent out a day or two before the session.

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

10:00–10:25: 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

To receive the Zoom link, RSVP below. You will receive the Zoom link a few days before the session.

Note: RSVPs for virtual Shut Up & Write! sessions close 24 hours before the session begins. If there is no option to RSVP, RSVPs are closed.

Note: We are aware of a glitch rendering our RSVP forms unresponsive for some users. If you encounter difficulties registering for this session, email John Wickham at john@qwf.org, who will register you manually.

Writing the Personal Essay
2025-12-04 17:45 - 19:45, 2025-11-27 17:45 - 19:45, 2025-11-20 17:45 - 19:45 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Eight Thursdays, Oct 9-Dec 4, 5:45-7:45pm (No session on October 30) Open to allLimited to 12 participantsHybrid Workshop*

Have you ever wanted to see your words on the pages of your favourite newspaper, magazine, or website? The personal essay is a subgenre of creative nonfiction that focuses on unique stories with universal appeal told from a first-person perspective. In this 8-week workshop, you’ll learn everything from how to generate ideas to how to structure your first and second drafts to how to pitch your completed piece.

The workshop will consist of teacher-led instruction, at-home readings, generative in-class writing exercises, and guided peer feedback. You will also be expected to work on your essay at home, between classes. By the end of this session, you will have one completed personal essay.

*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 because of distance or disability. By default, all workshop registrations are for in-person spots. If you would like to request a virtual slot, contact Riley at riley@qwf.org stating the reason for which you would need the virtual spot, then wait for a response before registering. Please do not register until you receive confirmation of a virtual spot for you.

Julie Matlin is a writer with several areas of concentration, including screenwriting, personal essays, novels, and reported articles. Previously, Julie worked at the National Film Board of Canada as a writer and social media strategist. Prior to that, she spent 15 years as a producer’s assistant and production coordinator in feature film.

Lunch & Learn: Creating Common Ground: How the Blue Metropolis Festival Began
2025-12-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
How to create a cultural event to promote English-language authors living in Quebec?
In this Lunch & Learn, Russell Fralich will describe the founding of the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival, created to support these “écrivains sans pays” amidst the perennial tension between the English and French cultural communities in Montreal.
The presentation will explore his co-produced business case study, Le lancement du festival littéraire Metropolis bleu, which draws on interviews with Festival co-founder Linda Leith and archival documents, and is now used as a teaching case at HEC Montréal.

Short Fiction: Plot and the Inner Life
2025-12-03 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-11-26 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-11-19 20:00 - 22:00 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Eight Wednesdays, Oct 8- Dec 3, 8-10pm (No session on October 29) Open to allLimited to 12 participantsHybrid Workshop*

This eight-week workshop will explore how deepening a character’s inner life can generate new possibilities for a short story’s plot. One premise of this workshop is that fiction’s power lies in its capacity to depict with a high degree of detail an individual’s consciousness: the realm of perceptions, feelings, desires, memories, and thoughts. How one consciousness bumps up against another—and against the external world of norms, things, economic and cultural forces, etc.—is what makes a story possible. We will investigate story as, in George Saunders’s words, “a system for the transfer of energy.”

Plot and interiority are broad categories that encompass other topics such as point of view, dialogue, backstory, and deepening the role of setting and/or of the body, all of which can be studied and discussed, depending on the group’s interest and the story drafts that are submitted for workshopping. Note that the workshop leader’s focus is realist literary fiction, but all genres are welcome. The larger goal of the workshop is to support writers in uncovering the best possible versions of their stories.

Most of the workshop will be devoted to reading and discussing participants’ stories (two per week over seven weeks, up to 5000 words each). However, for the first meeting, participants will discuss Yiyun Li’s story, “Prison,” a jarring tale about surrogate birth. Please read the first 23 pages before the first session, but do not read farther than that. We will read the final 5 pages together, tracking how the plot ultimately unfolds.

*This workshop will take place at the QWF Office (Room 3, 4023 Tupper Street, Westmount, Quebec) with up to 2 virtual spots for participants who are unable to attend in-person because of distance or disability. By default, all workshop registrations are for in-person spots. If you would like to request a virtual slot, contact Riley at riley@qwf.org stating the reason for which you would need the virtual spot, then wait for a response before registering. Please do not register until you receive confirmation of a virtual spot for you.

Michelle Syba is the author of the story collection End Times (Freehand Books, 2023), a finalist for the QWF Concordia University First Book Prize. End Times explores the lives of people variously entangled with evangelical culture, including immigrants, the elderly, the burned-out, and the lonely, examining our hidden anxieties and longings. Michelle’s shorter works have been published in The New Quarterly, Cosmonauts Avenue, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and elsewhere.

You can find out more about her at www.michellesyba.com.

Deep Story Design: Story-Craft Essentials for Longer Form Narratives (Wednesday Cohort)
2025-12-03 17:45 - 19:45, 2025-11-26 17:45 - 19:45, 2025-11-19 17:45 - 19:45 | Online via Zoom
Ten Wednesdays, Oct 8-Dec 17, 5:45-7:45pm (No session on October 15) Open to allLimited to 12 participantsOnline Workshop*

This workshop delves into the five fundamental elements of story-making—structure, plot, character, theme, and scene building. Whether you’re writing a novella, novel, screenplay, or memoir, the skillful use of these elements allows all writers to create powerful stories that are meaningful and satisfying.

After introducing a basic three-act story structure that’s foundational for most stories, the workshop will progress through aspects of character, theme, and plot so that you can feel confident about completing fiction or nonfiction of any kind or length. We also touch on scene construction so your stories feel dynamic and alive on the page.

Weekly homework exercises help writers at different stages of your story-making process, whether you’re gathering material for a new story, drafting an existing work, or revising a project that is nearly ready to share with others. Completed homework will receive instructor feedback and some in-class discussion.

In addition to the focus on craft essentials, this workshop invites writers to make personal discoveries about what matters most deeply to them and how this connects with their writing. This connection between self and story is integral to Deep Story Design, because writers who know who they are, and what they care about most, are better able to access their unique creative voice.

Weekly meetings will look something like this:

a 90-minute lesson, including 15-30 mins of in-class exercises

a 10-minute break

20 minutes for Q&A/homework discussion

Completed homework assignments will be due 4 days after the meeting at which they are assigned.

*This workshop will take place online via Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants a week or so prior to the first session. Please note that this is the Wednesday iteration of the workshop; there is also a group meeting on Mondays. The material covered will be the same, but note that due to limited spots, we cannot facilitate transfers between groups.

Deep Story Design: Story-Craft Essentials for Longer Form Narratives
2025-12-01 17:45 - 19:45, 2025-11-24 17:45 - 19:45, 2025-11-17 17:45 - 19:45 | Online via Zoom
Ten Mondays, Oct 6-Dec 15, 5:45-7:45pm (No session on October 13) Open to allLimited to 12 participantsOnline Workshop*

This workshop delves into the five fundamental elements of story-making—structure, plot, character, theme, and scene building. Whether you’re writing a novella, novel, screenplay, or memoir, the skillful use of these elements allows all writers to create powerful stories that are meaningful and satisfying.

After introducing a basic three-act story structure that’s foundational for most stories, the workshop will progress through aspects of character, theme, and plot so that you can feel confident about completing fiction or nonfiction of any kind or length. We also touch on scene construction so your stories feel dynamic and alive on the page.

Weekly homework exercises help writers at different stages of your story-making process, whether you’re gathering material for a new story, drafting an existing work, or revising a project that is nearly ready to share with others. (Completed homework will receive instructor feedback and some in-class discussion.)

In addition to the focus on craft essentials, this workshop invites writers to make personal discoveries about what matters most deeply to them and how this connects with their writing. This connection between self and story is integral to Deep Story Design, because writers who know who they are, and what they care about most, are better able to access their unique creative voice.

Weekly meetings will look something like this:

a 90-minute lesson, including 15-30 mins of in-class exercises

a 10-minute break

20 minutes for Q&A/homework discussion

Completed homework assignments will be due 4 days after the meeting at which they are assigned.

*This workshop will take place online via Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants a week or so prior to the first session.

April Bosshard is a respected workshop facilitator and story coach who’s helped hundreds of writers develop and complete their projects. Sometimes called a “story whisperer” or “story genie,” she has a background in film and television and has written fiction and non-fiction for traditional and independent markets, which include publications in the US, UK, and Canada. April teaches at conferences and leads workshops internationally and online, while also working with individual clients as a story coach and developmental editor.

Empowered Self-Publishing: Take Charge of Your Writing Career
2025-11-29 10:30 - 16:30 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Saturday, Nov 29, 10:30am-4:30pm Open to allLimited to 12 participantsHybrid Workshop*

I know some authors who were once discouraged, struggling to get their books published, or burned by a bad experience with a scammy agent or shady publisher, and now they’re thriving, finding readers and sometimes even making a living from their stories or becoming bestsellers.

Do you know what made a difference for them?

Self-publishing.

Many of the current bestsellers were once self-published or were written by authors who started by self-publishing. That’s proof that publishing independently can be a valid career choice. Still, many authors freeze when it’s time to push that “publish” button, terrified of making a mistake.

Let’s get rid of that fear, shall we?

In this workshop, my goal is to give you the tools and confidence to embark on a self-publishing journey or at least to learn enough about self-publishing to make informed decisions for your books.

Some of the things we’ll look at:

How to write, package, and position your books to succeed

Where and how to get the right cover and formatting

Editing: all the steps needed to get your book into shape

Resources to improve your craft

Retailers and publishing strategies

Promo strategies, ads, and social media that works for books

Essential tools and websites for writers

Kickstarter

Audiobooks

And much more!

It’s going to be a workshop packed with information and tips as well as resources for further reading and studying, so that if you need a deep dive in any of those topics, you’ll know where to find the right answers instead of getting lost in a sea of search results.

We’ll also discuss your specific publishing projects and career goals; you’ll leave this workshop with resources and a plan that works for you and your books.

*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 because of distance or disability. By default, all workshop registrations are for in-person spots. If you would like to request a virtual slot, contact Riley at riley@qwf.org stating the reason for which you would need the virtual spot, then wait for a response before registering. Please do not register until you receive confirmation of a virtual spot for you.

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Day Leitao writes YA and adult fantasy and sci-fi. She has self-published more than nine novels and eight audiobooks, and has created four successful Kickstarter campaigns. She attended Apollycon in 2025 and Romantasy Book Con in 2024 and 2025 as a participating author and was a presenter at the Toronto Indie Authors Conference in 2025. She has also presented online at Indie Writers Fest and Apex Writers and been interviewed by Jenna Moreci on her YouTube channel.

Mapping Your Poetic Voice
2025-11-28 17:00 - 19:00 | Phoenix Books, 5928 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, Quebec, H4A 1X7, Canada
Friday, November 28, 20255:00–7:00 pm ET

Learn techniques to express the unique way your mind meets the world.

In this generative workshop, we will consider factors that contribute to poetic voice. In doing so, we will see that our voices are not waiting to be found somewhere outside of ourselves. Rather, they call us to listen deeply to who we are and how we experience the world. You can expect to leave the workshop with tools for thinking about what makes your poetic expression unique. The workshop is open to writers of all levels, but some basic experience with poetry writing is recommended.

Email sarahwolfsonwriter@gmail.com to reserve your spot in advance. Space is limited.

Sarah Wolfson is an award-winning poet and teaching artist. Her collection A Common Name for Everything won the 2020 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in literary journals such as The Walrus, The Fiddlehead, Geist, CV2, Arc, TriQuarterly, and The Yale Review. She has taught poetry writing in a variety of contexts to people of all ages, backgrounds, and experience levels.

Shut Up & Write! with QWF (*VIRTUAL*)
2025-11-28 12:30 - 15:00 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
*NOTE: Due to a temporary office closure, this session will be held online via Zoom instead of in person*

Friday, November 28, 2025, 12:30 pm–3:00 pmFree, In Person (MOVED TO VIRTUAL)

Register for the session by filling out the RSVP form below.

Looking for some dedicated, quiet writing space?

Join us for an in-person Shut Up & Write session at the QWF office!

Do 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.

This event is for QWF members only. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member.

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

12:30–12:55: 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

To register, RSVP below.

Getting to the QWF Office

Our office is located on the top floor of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre, in Room 3.

Address: 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3Westmount, QC H3Z 1X4

Closest Metro: Atwater Station

Closest Bus lines: 24, 63, 90, 104, 138, 144, 150

Accessibility:

The 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.

Learn more about the office location and accessibility.

*NOTE: Due to a temporary office closure, this session will be held online via Zoom instead of in person*

If you registered and can no longer attend, please email john@qwf.org to notify us.

Building a Better Short Story Collection
2025-11-27 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-11-20 20:00 - 22:00 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Eight Thursdays, Oct 9-Nov 27, 8-10pmOpen to allLimited to 12 participantsOnline Workshop*

This workshop takes as its premise that any writer can throw together a bunch of good or even great stories to publish as a collection, but questions whether great stories alone make a great manuscript, a great book.

In looking at what binds a story collection, we’ll consider:

a few writers (like Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Edward P. Jones, Amy Sands Brodoff, Zalika Reid-Binta, and Kaie Kellough)

critiques/reviews of their collections/books

participants’ own work/stories.

We’ll also look at excerpts from a journal that participants will be asked to keep during the workshop (and hopefully beyond). The journal will contain thoughts, such as story ideas, outlines for their collections, story order and contents, frustrations, and illuminations, on the evolution of their manuscript.

*This workshop will take place online via Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants a week or so prior to the first session.

Robert Edison Sandiford is the author of several books, among them the story cycle Fairfield, the novel And Sometimes They Fly, and graphic novels with NBM Publishing. He has been shortlisted for The Frank Collymore Literary Award and is a recipient of Barbados’s Governor General’s Award of Excellence in Literary Arts. In 2003, he founded with the poet Linda M. Deane the Barbadian cultural resource ArtsEtc Inc. He has worked as a publisher, teacher, and producer with Warm Water Productions. His stories have appeared in journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. Currently, he’s busy with another novel, this time about fathers, sons, and dementia.

Queering Literature in 2025
2025-11-27 18:00 | L’Euguélionne Bookstore, 1426 Rue Beaudry, Montreal, Quebec, H2L 3E5, Canada
Thursday, November 27, 2025, 6:00 pm ET

Join us in the Village for a roundtable discussion with three local, literary authors: H. Nigel Thomas, Su J Sokol, and Talhí Briones, as well as multidisciplinary artist Nour Symon—all of whom have published works in 2025. In conversation with local writer Brooke Lee, the panel will discuss their latest works, queer time and space in the literary arts community, and what a hopeful future can look like during socially turbulent times.

Stage-Worthy: How to Write a Play
2025-11-26 17:45 - 19:45, 2025-11-19 17:45 - 19:45 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Seven Wednesdays, Oct 8-Nov 26, 5:45-7:45pm (No session on October 29; double-session [5:45-9:45pm] on November 26)Open to allLimited to 12 participantsIn-Person Workshop*

Dialogue, characters, plot, setting! This will be a learn-by-doing-as-you-go, anecdotal (in a theatre history way), ease-you-into-it experience that’s not scary or overwhelming. If you have always wanted to write a play or already have a play idea in the works, this is the workshop for you. I’m quite motivational, coach-like, and pushy in a good way. I will get that play out of you if you are willing to try. I am all for deadlines, discipline, and contests. Since I have more of a comic bent, there could be more emphasis on comedy. The workshop will evolve as it goes, based on what everyone hopes to accomplish. I am often surprised and quite happy to see what happens when I throw ideas and writing games at writers in a workshop. I am very careful about how feedback is given because everything is so new. This does not mean that there won’t be opportunities to share your work or prove that you are indeed writing. Participants will have something dramatic to show for it at the end of the workshop. A past QWF workshop resulted in Picturesque: Voices From Beaver Hall, which saw productions at Redpath Museum, Dawson Theatre, as well as museums in Hamilton and Calgary.

*This workshop will take place exclusively in-person at the QWF Office (Room 3, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec).

Colleen Curran is an award-winning playwright, novelist, actor, and teacher. Her comedy Cake-Walk premiered at the Blyth Festival in 1984 and has had more than 50 productions across North America. It was brought to the attention of Showtime Network by Whoopi Goldberg. Curran’s many plays include Villa Eden, Sacred Hearts (winner of the International Gabriel Award and most recently done by Zeitgeist Stage in Boston) Maple Lodge (Winner Best Canadian Play, Samuel French Inc. Competition), Another Labour Day (Best New Play, QDF, 1984), El Clavadista, A Brave Girl, Sibyl and Sylvia, Casa de Mary, Ceili House, and Ireland’s Own Carmel O’Reilly Tonite! Her three novels about Montreal singing waitress Lenore Rutland are Something Drastic, Overnight Sensation, and Guests of Chance. Her stage adaptation of Something Drastic premiered in 2002 and has been seen in Winnipeg, Toronto, Athens, and Melbourne. Her True Nature launched the 2011-2012 season at Centaur Theatre. Her latest novel, Out for Stars, made the long list for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour.

Poetry in Concert: Composition, Voice, Performance
2025-11-25 17:45 - 19:45, 2025-11-18 17:45 - 19:45 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
Eight Tuesdays, Oct 7-Nov 25, 5:45-7:45pm Open to poets and writers with some writing experienceLimited to 12 participantsHybrid Workshop*

The workshop Poetry in Concert: Composition, Voice, Performance is intended for poets or writers with some writing experience who are interested in pushing their poetic imagination and expanding their vocal and performative abilities. No previous public performance experience is required, but participants need to be willing to experiment and vocalize their work in front of each other. As everyone will be producing new writing, no advance submission is necessary.

In this poetry workshop, participants will focus on composing a poetic work or suite that draws inspiration from the oral and performing arts, including forms such as theatrical dialogue, prose monologue, performance art, sound poetry, spoken word, and vocal improvisation. In the first half of the workshop, participants will engage in various writing and listening exercises in order to generate work, listen to diverse poets and sound artists, discuss and respond to each others’ writing, and gradually compose a poetic work inspired by various aspects of performance that are not only translated onto the page but also imagined for the stage. Ideas related to composition, movement, pacing, and embodiment will be explored.

The second part of the workshop will focus on the vocalization and performance of this work. Participants will learn about range, volume, dynamics, timing; how to warm up their voices and prepare for a performative reading; how to properly use a microphone; and how to explore multiple ways that their unique voices can embody their work. Depending on interest, the workshop could culminate in a performance event of the work produced.

*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 because of distance or disability. By default, all workshop registrations are for in-person spots. If you would like to request a virtual slot, contact Riley at riley@qwf.org stating the reason for which you would need the virtual spot, then wait for a response before registering. Please do not register until you receive confirmation of a virtual spot for you.

Oana Avasilichioaei has created many performance/sound works that mix electronics, ambient textures, noise, and vocal play, published seven collections of poetry hybrids, including Chambersonic (Talonbooks, 2024) and award-nominated Eight Track (Talonbooks, 2019), and written a libretto for the one-act opera Cells of Wind (FAWN Chamber Collective, 2022–24). Based in Montreal, she has been a writer- or artist-in-residence at Green College, UBC (Vancouver, 2009), University of Calgary (2010–11), Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, 2018), OBORO (Montreal, 2021), and Rhizome (Quebec City, 2024), and is currently nominated for the Bernard Heidsieck Centre Pompidou International Literature Prize for her intermedia work.

Lunch & Learn: Online Film and Discussion on Ageism
2025-11-25 12:00 - 13:30 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
Tuesday, November 25, 202512:00–1:30 pm ETFree, open to all—register for Zoom link

Join us for a special edition of our Lunch & Learn series.

On Tuesday, November 25, QWF presents a free online screening of Ageless, an engaging new documentary from the Cummings Centre that confronts ageism and its impact. The 45-minute film will be followed by a discussion facilitated by QWF Executive Director Lori Schubert.

Ageism affects every generation. In Ageless, director Joshua Dorsey explores age-based biases through firsthand interviews with participants from English-speaking communities in Quebec, including Montreal, Quebec City, Saguenay, Gatineau, and the Eastern Townships. The film features the perspectives of both younger and older people and identifies ways to counter ageism that all of us can apply in our daily lives.

You’ll be invited to share your own experiences of ageism—whether in the public arena, in the workplace, or in the book industry.

Watch the trailer:

Ageless is developed and produced by the Cummings Centre with support from the provincial government’s SRQEA program strengthening the vitality of English-speaking communities in Quebec.

Register for Zoom Link

Shut Up & Write! with QWF (Virtual)
2025-11-22 10:00 - 12:30 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
Saturday, November 22, 2025, 10:00 am–12:30 pm ETOnline via Zoom—RSVP below to receive the Zoom link

Looking for some dedicated, quiet writing space?

Register below to do all that writing you’ve been meaning to do. Using the Pomodoro technique, participants write in 25-minute bursts, with 5-minute breaks in between.

This event is for QWF members only. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member.

The Zoom link will be sent out a day or two before the session.

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

10:00–10:25: 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

To receive the Zoom link, RSVP below. You will receive the Zoom link a few days before the session.

Note: RSVPs for virtual Shut Up & Write! sessions close 24 hours before the session begins. If there is no option to RSVP, RSVPs are closed.

Note: We are aware of a glitch rendering our RSVP forms unresponsive for some users. If you encounter difficulties registering for this session, email John Wickham at john@qwf.org, who will register you manually.

Lunch and Learn with SODEP
2025-11-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
Tuesday, November 18, 202512:00–1:00 pm ETFree, Online—Register for Zoom Link

Discover SODEP—Quebec’s association of cultural magazines—and learn about the history of magazines in the province.

The Société de développement des périodiques culturels québécois (SODEP) is an association dedicated to the defense and promotion of Quebec’s cultural magazines. Founded in 1978, SODEP brings together nearly 50 rich, diverse, and unique magazines devoted to the arts, literature, social issues, history, and heritage. Its mandate is to make cultural magazines accessible to all and to offer its members a variety of services to support their professional development.

Come attend the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s next Lunch and Learn where Léah Pitre-Gaspari, SODEP’s business development coordinator, will deliver a short presentation on the history of magazines in Quebec and about SODEP’s work in developing and supporting the industry. A Q&A period will follow.

This session is free and open to all. Register to get the Zoom link.

Register Now

Accent Open Mic Vol. 126 "Glossolalia" with Emmanuel Deraps, Robin Durnford, and Josh Quirion
2025-11-16 20:00 - 23:00, 2025-11-16 08:00 - 17:00 | Bar Le Record, 7622 Rue St-Hubert, Montréal, Quebec, H2R 2N6, Canada
Join us for another amazing evening of poetry and prose with featured readers Emmanuel Deraps, Robin Durnford, and Josh Quirion.
Where: Bar Le Record
(7622 Rue St-Hubert, Montréal, QC H2R 2N6)
When: 8pm
Cost: Free
Open Mic: 5 mins
Theme: Glossalia
Sign up for the open mic at the door!

Shut Up & Write! with QWF (*VIRTUAL due to STM Strike*)
2025-11-14 12:30 - 15:00 | QWF Office, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4, Canada
*NOTE: This session will be held online via Zoom due to the ongoing STM strike*

Friday, November 14, 2025, 12:30 pm–3:00 pmFree, In Person (MOVED TO VIRTUAL DUE TO STM STRIKE)

Register for the session by filling out the RSVP form below.

Looking for some dedicated, quiet writing space?

Join us for an in-person Shut Up & Write session at the QWF office!

Do 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.

This event is for QWF members only. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member.

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

12:30–12:55: 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

To register, RSVP below.

Getting to the QWF Office

Our office is located on the top floor of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre, in Room 3.

Address: 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3Westmount, QC H3Z 1X4

Closest Metro: Atwater Station

Closest Bus lines: 24, 63, 90, 104, 138, 144, 150

Accessibility:

The 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.

Learn more about the office location and accessibility.

*NOTE: This session will be held online via Zoom due to the ongoing STM strike*

If you registered and can no longer attend, please email john@qwf.org to notify us.
