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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: Romantasy
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 24\, 2025\, 7:00–8:30 pm ETJoie de Livres Bookstore (5163 Blvd. Saint-Laurent\, Montreal)RSVP Below\n\n\n\nThe Quebec Writers’ Federation invites you to a panel discussion about the genre that’s taken the book world by storm.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for Writers Out Loud: Romantasy (“Romantic Fantasy”). Three talented Montreal-based authors—Day Leitao (Remnants of the Fallen Kingdom Series)\, L.E. Sterling (Starling’s Weave)\, and Kyrie Wang (The Enemy’s Keeper Series)—sit down to discuss their writing\, how they got started in the world of romantasy\, and why it’s such an exciting genre to be working in today. Discover the fantastical worlds\, the captivating romances\, and the manifold subgenres that make romantasy the world’s latest breakout book genre.  \n\n\n\nA Q&A with the audience will follow the panel discussion. Books by the authors will be available for purchase thanks to Joie de livres Bookstore. Light refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\nAbout the Panellists\n\n\n\n\nDay Leitao loves to write books with romance\, magic\, and banter and has participated in some of the most important romantasy events in the world: Apollycon in Washington DC and Romantasy Con in Orlando and Los Angeles. Her most recent series\, Remnants of the Fallen Kingdom\, is an enemies-to-lovers fae romantasy. She’s originally from Brazil and lives in Montreal with her son. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInspired by a childhood roaming across Canada in a van\, L.E. Sterling is the author of multiple novels spanning romance\, fantasy\, science fiction\, dystopian fiction\, and YA. Sterling has appeared at Book Con (NYC)\, the LA Times Festival of Books\, Ad Astra (Toronto)\, and Blue Metropolis (Montreal). Her novel True Born received international recognition\, winning the Athena Award for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction in 2017. She lives in the French-speaking suburbs of Montreal\, Quebec\, where she enjoys the romantic\, lost-in-translation life of an anglo ex-pat. le-sterling.com(Photo by Maxime Pruneau) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKyrie Wang is a medical mystery detective (fancy words for “pathologist\, MD”) by day and a dreamweaver of historical fantasy by night. Pencil on paper makes her cry and laugh\, and every book she writes is like living another life. She loves writing stories where people discover their true selves\, goodness wins\, and the forgotten and voiceless become heroes. When she isn’t peering through a microscope or building hamster toys with her daughter\, Kyrie is at her keyboard\, chasing the next adventure. \n\n\n\n\nCOST: Free | Donations welcome at the door
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-romantasy/
LOCATION:Joie de livres\, 5163 St Laurent Blvd\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 1R9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel,QWF Events,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: A Night of Trans Joy
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 6\, 2025\, 7:00-8:30 pm ETPulp Books & Cafe (3952 Wellington Ave\, Verdun)RSVP on Facebook\n\n\n\nThe Quebec Writers’ Federation invites you to Writers Out Loud: A Night of Trans Joy—an evening of literary conversation and community celebration.  \n\n\n\nJoin us as we hear from four exciting and talented Quebec writers. Author and moderator Chris Bergeron will sit down with writers Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay\, Blxck Cxsper\, and Lenore Claire Herrem to discuss their work\, their experiences of trans joy\, and how those experiences colour their writing. A Q&A with the audience will follow the panel discussion.  \n\n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto by Geneviève Charbonneau\n\n\n\nChris Bergeron is diverse and fluid: after beginning a career in journalism and eventually winding up at the helm of the weekly cultural magazine Voir\, she now dedicates her artistic vitality to Cossette\, a leading global marketing agency. She offers speaking engagements on leadership\, diversity\, inclusion\, and trans rights. Chris lives in Montreal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto by Julie Langenegger\n\n\n\nGabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay lives in Montreal (Tiohtià:ke) and is a writer\, poet\, actress\, and advocate for trans rights. She published a poetry collection\, Les secrets de l’origami and has written for several magazines and publications\, including Lettres Québécoises\, Estuaire\, XYZ\, Moebius and Le Devoir as a columnist. Her children’s book La voix de la nature was nominated for the Prix du Livre Jeunesse des Bibliothèques de Montréal. Her first novel\, La fille d’elle-même\, won the Prix des Libraires du Québec 2022 and is distributed in Europe with JC Lattès and in English as Dandelion Daughter with Véhicule Press. The translation was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award ’24. This year\, the book will be translated into Spanish. She is currently working on the sequel to the novel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlxck Cxsper is a multidisciplinary artist\, storyteller\, and cultural disruptor based in Montréal. Known for their genre-bending music that blends hip-hop\, R&B\, and Afro-Caribbean influences\, Cxsper uses sound as a tool for emotional transformation and political resistance. They are the founder of Trans Trenderz\, a record label dedicated to uplifting transgender musicians and building equity in the music industry. Blxck Cxsper is also a writer\, actor\, and director and is currently working on a novel that expands the fictional universe of Blxck Cxsper—a former superhero turned vigilante fighting against institutional corruption to protect the marginalized.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLenore Claire Herrem is a transdisciplinary artist from Saskatoon and has been working in Tio’Tia:Ke (Montréal) since 2013. Formally trained in theatre performance\, she also works in studio arts\, animation\, digital art\, video art\, and performance art. She works under the character name Sandy Bridges for cabaret and web series\, and Precious Puppies is the name of her humble animation & merchandising empire. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-a-night-of-trans-joy/
LOCATION:Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe\, 3952 Wellington Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4G1V3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Imagination Writers' Festival: Sabrina Reeves
DESCRIPTION:April 26\, 2025\, 2:30-3:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nEnjoy an interview with Sabrina Reeves\, author of Little Crosses\, at this Imagination event! \n\n\n\nPhoto by Tony Chong\n\n\n\nSabrina Reeves grew up in Boston and New York and currently lives in Montreal. Her artistic practice has primarily been in writing performance texts and plays. She founded the performance company Bluemouth Inc.\, with whom she has written and staged over a dozen original works and performed at festivals and theatres all over the world. In 2018\, she completed an MFA in creative writing at Concordia University\, where she was awarded the Dean of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Creative Writing. Her first novel\, Little Crosses\, was published in March of 2024 by House of Anansi Press and was awarded the Concordia University First Book Prize and the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for fiction. \n\n\n\nHost : Leila Paddack-Trudel \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Imagination Writers’ Festival in partnership with QWF’s Writers Out Loud series.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/imagination-writers-festival-sabrina-reeves/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Festival,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: To Care for the Earth—In Conversation with Alice Irene Whittaker
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 26\, 2025\, 2:30 pm ETHôtel 10 – Salle Jardin\n\n\n\nNovelist Ian Thomas Shaw interviews author Alice Irene Whittaker to explore the profound act of finding home in nature at a time of heartbreaking change. In her book\, Homing: A Quest for Care for Myself and the Earth\, Alice Irene weaves the wisdom of leading environmentalists with her journey of embracing nature’s cycles in a cabin in the woods\, where she strives to shed perfectionism and cultivate a life rooted in regeneration and care. \n\n\n\nPart of QWF’s Writers Out Loud series. Presented in partnership with the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-to-care-for-the-earth-in-conversation-with-alice-irene-whittaker/
LOCATION:Hotel 10\, 10 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 4C9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Imagination –Writing Dialogue for the Stage Workshop
DESCRIPTION:April 22-27\, 2025\, 11:00 am-12:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nJoin us for this Imagination festival workshop! \n\n\n\nHow does dialogue work in the theatre\, and how does it relate to character and action? Join playwright Leanna Brodie for this workshop to find out! With a mix of theory and hands-on exercises\, explore various approaches to writing for multiple voices and generating text for the stage. \n\n\n\nPhoto by Kristine Cofsky\n\n\n\nLeanna Brodie is an award-winning performer and writer whose plays include The Vic\, For Home and Country\, The Book of Esther\, and Schoolhouse\, which have been performed across Canada. Most recently\, Salesman in China\, written in collaboration with Jovanni Sy\, premiered at the Stratford Festival and National Arts Centre to great acclaim\, winning the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for best new play. Brodie is also a leading translator of Québécois and Franco-Canadian playwrights. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Imagination Writers’ Festival in partnership with QWF’s Writers Out Loud series.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/imagination-writing-dialogue-for-the-stage-workshop/
LOCATION:Morrin Centre\, 44 Chaussée des Écossais\, Quebec City\, Quebec\, G1R 4H3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Workshops,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:Funny Writers Out Loud: On Writing Humour
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 15\, 7:00–8:30 PMUnitarian Church of Montreal5035 Maisonneuve Blvd. W. (Métro Vendôme)\, Montreal QCSuggested Donation: $15 at the door ($10 for QWF members)In Person\n\n\n\nJoin us for Funny Writers Out Loud: On Writing Humour. Authors Ali Hassan\, Tara McGowan-Ross\, and Rebecca Păpucaru sit down with moderator Nisha Coleman to talk all things comedy and humour writing-related. A Q&A period with the audience will follow. Prepare to learn and laugh! \n\n\n\nThe event starts at 7:00 PM in the Sanctuary of the Unitarian Church of Montreal (5035 Maisonneuve Blvd W.)\, near Métro Vendôme. For transportation and accessibility information\, visit the Unitarian Church’s website.  \n\n\n\nBooks by the participants will be available for sale after the discussion. \n\n\n\nRSVPs are not required but encouraged to help us gauge attendance. RSVP below to let us know you’re coming! \n\n\n\nAbout the Panelists\n\n\n\n\nAli Hassan is an author\, broadcaster\, actor\, and comedian who has performed for audiences across Canada\, in the United States\, and internationally. Ali is the host of the CBC Radio hit stand-up comedy show Laugh Out Loud. He is also this season’s guest host on The Next Chapter\, and for the past eight years (come March) he has been the host of Canada Reads\, CBC’s “Battle of the Books.” Ali has appeared on the big screen in award-winning films such as French Immersion\, the hockey hit Goon\, and Tammy’s Always Dying. Some of his recent television roles include Designated Survivor (ABC & Netflix)\, Cardinal (CTV)\, Odd Squad (PBS Kids\, CBBC)\, Dino Dana (TVOKids)\, Workin’ Moms (CBC) and Murdoch Mysteries (CBC). Ali is currently featured in two television shows: Run The Burbs (CBC\, Hulu) and the Peabody-Award winning Sort Of (CBC Gem\, HBO Max). Ali has performed at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal and Toronto’s JFL42 and has toured across Canada as one of the stars of Just For Laughs Comedy Night In Canada tour\, hosted by Rick Mercer. A Canadian Screen Award and Canadian Comedy Award nominee\, Ali has toured his solo show Muslim Interrupted around Canada to great acclaim. His comedic memoir Is There Bacon in Heaven? is out now with Simon & Schuster\, and was described by Rick Mercer as “perhaps the funniest and most heartfelt Canadian memoir yet.” \n\n\n\n\n\nTara McGowan-Ross is an urban Mi’kmaw multidisciplinary artist and writer. She graduated from Concordia University’s philosophy program with a minor in Creative Writing in 2016. She is the author of poetry collections Girth and Scorpion Season\, and the memoir Nothing Will Be Different. She has served on numerous editorial boards\, including Goose Lane’s Icehouse imprint\, and has been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry and Anthologie de la poésie actuelle des femmes au Québec. She lives in Montreal\, where she is a theatre critic\, a rebel educator\, a Substack columnist\, and the host of Drawn & Quarterly’s Indigenous Literatures Book Club. \n\n\n\n\n\nRebecca Păpucaru‘s first novel\, As Good a Place as Any\, will be published by Guernica Editions in 2025. Her first book\, The Panic Room (Nightwood Editions)\, was awarded the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry and was also a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her short story “Yentas” won The Malahat Review’s 2020 Novella Prize. Her work has also appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry in English\, Arc\, EVENT\, Grain\, The Literary Review of Canada\, Canadian Literature\, and The New Quarterly\, among others. \n\n\n\n\nThe Host\n\n\n\n\nNisha Coleman is a writer\, storyteller\, musician\, and actor based in Montreal. Her stories have been featured on the CBC\, Moth Radio Hour\, Risk!\, and Confabulation\, among others. Her children’s book\, Dear Humans\, addresses climate change and was published last year.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuggested Donation: $15 at the door ($10 for QWF members)
URL:https://qwf.org/event/funny-writers-out-loud-on-writing-humour/
LOCATION:Unitarian Church of Montreal\, 5035 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: The Middle East As a Canvas for Canadian Writers
DESCRIPTION:Thurs\, Feb 1\, 20247:00-8:30 pm ESTFree\, online and in personRegistration required for online participants\n\n\n\nJoin us for Writers Out Loud: The Middle East As a Canvas for Canadian Writers. \n\n\n\nOrganized by Muslim Awareness Week and QWF\, this free event will feature writers Ehab Lotayef (To Love a Palestinian Woman) and Ian Thomas Shaw (Quill of the Dove) discussing how the region and concept of “the Middle East” has influenced their work. Moderated by CKUT Community Radio Reporter Samaa Elibyari. \n\n\n\nLight refreshments will be served after the discussion. \n\n\n\nThe panel will be in person at the Atwater Library Auditorium. Attendees can attend in person or register to join online via Zoom. \n\n\n\nFeel free to share the Facebook event with friends and family. \n\n\n\nTo attend online: Register to get the link to the Zoom Webinar. You do not need to register if you plan to attend in person. \n\n\n\n\nRegister for Zoom Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Authors\n\n\n\n\nEhab Lotayef is a poet and writer. His poetry book To Love a Palestinian Woman was published by TSAR in 2010. His works have appeared in multiple anthologies\, papers\, and webzines.  Ehab\, who was born in Cairo\, Egypt\, also writes in classical Arabic and colloquial Egyptian. He holds a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and is an IT and Technical Services Manager at McGill University. Ehab has been\, and continues to be\, dedicated to social justice and is a founding and active member of a number of NGOs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIan Thomas Shaw is a Canadian novelist and former diplomat. Born in Vancouver\, he worked for 34 years first as an international development expert and then as a diplomat\, living in Africa\, the Middle East\, and Europe. Ian’s second novel\, Quill of the Dove\, is a blend of literary fiction and political thriller set against the Lebanese Civil War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ian is also the founder and main editor for Deux Voiliers Publishing (27 books edited)\, and the founder of the Prose in the Park Literary Festival and the Ottawa Review of Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting to the Venue\n\n\n\nThe Adair Auditorium is located on the top floor of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre. \n\n\n\nAddress: 4023 Tupper Street (side entrance)Westmount\, QC H3Z 1X4 \n\n\n\nNote: As this event will be held outside the library’s opening hours\, please use the Tupper Street entrance if the main entrance on Atwater is closed. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClosest Metro: Atwater Station \n\n\n\nClosest Bus lines: 24\, 63\, 90\, 104\, 138\, 144\, 150 \n\n\n\nAccessibility: The auditorium is fully accessible by wheelchair. From Tupper Street\, there is a slight slope down to a side entrance to the basement. Once inside\, there is an elevator to the second floor\, where the auditorium is located. \n\n\n\nFor questions or requests about accessibility\, contact John Wickham\, Communications Officer\, at john@qwf.org. \n\n\n\nLearn more about the office location and accessibility.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-the-middle-east-as-a-canvas-for-canadian-writers/
LOCATION:Adair Auditorium\, Atwater Library\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, top floor\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3Z 1T4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: Navigating the Impacts of Bill 96
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 18\, 20237:00-8:30 pm ESTFree\, online and in person\n\n\n\nJoin us for Writers Out Loud: Navigating the Impacts of Bill 96. Authors Christopher Neal\, Shailee\, and Vanessa Sasson sit down with Guy Rex Rodgers to discuss Bill 96 and its impact on language issues in Quebec.  \n\n\n\nThe panel will be in person at the Atwater Library Auditorium. Attendees can attend in person or register to join online via Zoom. You do not have to register if you plan to attend in person. \n\n\n\nFeel free to share the Facebook event with friends and family. \n\n\n\nTo attend online\, register to get the link to the Zoom Webinar. You do not need to register if you plan to attend in person. \n\n\n\n\nRegister for Zoom Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Participants\n\n\n\n\nA graduate of the National Theatre School’s playwriting program and long-time arts activist\, Guy Rex Rodgers was co-founder of the Quebec Drama Federation (QDF) and the Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF)\, was a member of the founding board of le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and founding Executive Director of the English-Language Arts Network (ELAN).  In 2015 he was appointed a companion in l’Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec. Since leaving ELAN in 2020\, Guy has written and directed eight documentary films about Anglos in Quebec in collaboration with MAtv\, the National Film Board of Canada and CBC. He also writes a monthly column about culture\, politics and history for The Montrealer magazine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShailee is a writer and graduate student originally from India. She recently completed her master’s thesis\, investigating the politics of queer representation in postcolonial Indian theatre\, at the department of English at McGill University. Her book\, Sita and Helen—a graphic novel for young adults published by Tulika Books—hit the shelves earlier this year. In May\, her paper on Rahul Varma’s play Counter Offence was published in the International Association of Theatre Critics’ peer-reviewed journal\, Critical Stages/ Scènes critiques. It explores the effects of the linguistic politics propagated by Bill 96 on theatre culture in Montréal by focusing on the anglophone\, diasporic work of Teesri Duniya Theatre company. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Neal is a journalist and communications professional. He has been a freelance correspondent in Latin America\, and a staff writer at the Montreal Gazette and Ottawa Citizen. He has also held  communications leadership positions in Canada’s federal development aid agency\, and at the World Bank\, where he helped guide strategic communications for economic policy\, data and research\, operations in Latin America\, energy and climate change. Since returning to Montreal from Washington DC in 2016\, he has served on the boards of the Quebec Community Groups Network and Quebec Writers’ Federation\, for which he drafted and presented a brief on Bill 96. He is currently Vice-President of the McGill Community of Lifelong Learning and President of the Canadian International Council’s Montreal chapter. His 2022 book\, The Rebel Scribe – Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to US Policy in Latin America\, was short-listed for the Mavis Gallant Award for Non-Fiction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVanessa R. Sasson is a professor of Religious Studies in the Liberal Arts Department of Marianopolis College where she has been teaching since 1999. She is also a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State and Research Member at CERIAS at UQAM. She has published a number of articles and book chapters\, is the author of The Birth of Moses and the Buddha: A Paradigm for the Comparative Study of Religions (Sheffield University Press\, 2007) and editor or co-editor of a number of academic volumes\, including Little Buddhas: Children and Childhoods in Buddhist Texts and Traditions (Oxford University Press\, 2013)\, Jewels\, Jewelry\, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary (Hawaii University Press\, 2021)\, and most recently with Kristin Scheible\, The Buddha: A Storied Life (Oxford University Press\, 2023). Yasodhara and the Buddha (Bloomsbury\, 2021) is her first academic novel; it is followed by The Gathering (Equinox 2023)\, which focuses on the women’s request for ordination. Another is sure to follow. \n\n\n\n\nGetting to the Venue\n\n\n\nThe Adair Auditorium is located on the top floor of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre. \n\n\n\nAddress: 4023 Tupper StreetWestmount\, QC H3Z 1X4 \n\n\n\nNote: As this event will be held outside the library’s opening hours\, please use the Tupper Street entrance if the main entrance on Atwater is closed. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClosest Metro: Atwater Station \n\n\n\nClosest Bus lines: 24\, 63\, 90\, 104\, 138\, 144\, 150 \n\n\n\nAccessibility: The auditorium is fully accessible by wheelchair. From Tupper Street\, there is a slight slope down to a side entrance to the basement. Once inside\, there is an elevator to the second floor\, where the auditorium is located. \n\n\n\nFor questions or requests about accessibility\, contact John Wickham\, Communications Officer\, at john@qwf.org. \n\n\n\nLearn more about the office location and accessibility.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-navigating-the-impacts-of-bill-96/
LOCATION:Atwater Library Auditorium\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, 2nd floor\, Westmount\, QC
CATEGORIES:Panel,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: Emerging Authors Panel
DESCRIPTION:April 15\, 3:00–4:30 pm \n\n\n\nJoin us and discover the writings of the finalists of the 2022 Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) Concordia University First Book Prize! Dive into the writings of David Bradford (he/they)\, Trynne Delaney (they/them)\, and Kasia Van Schaik in this discussion about hybrid poetry\, speculative futures\, and female experience in a world threatened by ecological crises. \n\n\n\nThis event is held as part of the Morrin Centre’s 2023 Imagination Writer’s Festival in partnership with QWF’s Writers Out Loud series. \n\n\n\nRegister here: eventbrite.com/e/580850628867 \n\n\n\nOrder the authors’ books now at La Maison Anglaise and the Festival will receive 30% of the sale!  \n\n\n\nClick here to see the full Imagination programming.  \n\n\n\nClick here to buy a festival pass.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-emerging-authors-panel/
LOCATION:Morrin Centre\, 44 Chaussée des Écossais\, Quebec City\, Quebec\, G1R 4H3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Writers Out Loud
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T173000
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: Woman\, Life\, Freedom
DESCRIPTION:March 8\, 2023\, 4:00–5:30 EST\n\n\n\nFree\, open to all.Online via Zoom. Registration required.Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4c6qj4lXRDmGR2kaIkbAQQ \n\n\n\nOn International Women’s Day\, authors Baharan Baniahmadi (Prophetess\, winner of the 2022 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction) and Anahita Jamali Rad (for love and autonomy and still) come together in a panel discussion about their writing practice and the Woman\, Life\, Freedom protest movement in Iran.  \n\n\n\nThe event will feature both writers in conversation with a moderator followed by an audience-led Q&A. \n\n\n\nPart of QWF’s Writers Out Loud series. \n\n\n\nPlease feel free to share the Facebook event with friends or family. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Panelists\n\n\n\nBaharan Baniahmadi is an Iranian-Canadian artist based in Montreal. After attaining a BA in theatre from Tehran’s Art University\, a BA in Paris\, and an MA in philosophy and art from Paris-8 University\, Baharan began her acting career in France\, where she collaborated with numerous prominent stage directors. She moved to Canada in 2018\, and in 2019 she was named Greatest Actor of Colour in Montreal by Diversité artistique Montréal (DAM).  \n\n\n\nIn 2006\, Baharan released her first collection of short tales\, published in Iran. Her English-language debut\, Prophetess\, was published in Montreal in 2022 and won the 2022 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnahita Jamali Rad is a text-forward artist currently living\, working\, and making on the traditional territory of the Anishnaabeg people of the Three Fires Confederacy (Ojibwe\, Potawatomi\, and Odawa). Jamali Rad’s work is founded on techno-materialist histories of dominant ideologies\, class struggle\, desire\, place\, displacement\, silence\, negation\, and the void. They have published two full-length books of poetry: for love and autonomy (Talonbooks\, 2016) and still (Talonbooks 2021). Their most recent work is the chapbook\, WHAT I WANT\, published by Model Press.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-woman-life-freedom/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:QWF Events,Writers Out Loud
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230201T203000
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SUMMARY:A Literary Conversation with Baharan Baniahmadi
DESCRIPTION:With Baharan BaniahmadiHosted by Shelley PomeranceIn collaboration with QWF \n\n\n\nJoin author Baharan Baniahmadi for a discussion about her book Prophetess\, winner of the QWF’s 2022 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Prophetess is an unflinching allegorical novel that explores trauma\, women’s rights\, and religious tradition in Iran.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/a-literary-conversation-with-baharan-baniahmadi/
LOCATION:Westmount Public Library\, 4626 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1G1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230131T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230131T200000
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: Muslim Awareness Week
DESCRIPTION:Free\, in-person event. \n\n\n\nThe Quebec Writers’ Federation and Muslim Awareness Week (MAW—2023) invite you to a special panel featuring authors Toula Drimonis and Ehab Lotayef in conversation with Montreal Gazette columnist Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed. Featuring Guest of Honour Frank Baylis\, M.P. \n\n\n\n\nView on Facebook\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFariha Naqvi-Mohamed is a television and print journalist and the founder and editor-in-chief of CanadianMomEh\, the number one diversity blog in Canada. Fariha made history as the first woman to wear the hijab on Quebec television in her role as a video journalist for CityNews Montreal.  \n\n\n\nToula Drimonis is a Montreal-based opinion columnist\, news producer and writer\, with a focus on politics\, social justice\, immigration\, and women’s issues. In 2022 she published her first book\, We\, the Others: Allophones\, Immigrants\, and Belonging in Canada. \n\n\n\nEhab Lotayef is a Canadian poet\, writer\, community activist\, and IT Manager of Egyptian origin. As a poet and writer\, Ehab published a bilingual poetry collection\, To Love a Palestinian Woman in 2010. His play\, Crossing Gibraltar\, was produced by the CBC in 2006. \n\n\n\nFrank Baylis is a professional engineer\, business entrepreneur\, film producer\, and former Parliamentarian. He is well known for his leadership in promoting equality and fair treatment for all Canadians. As a Member of Parliament\, Frank was a founding member of the Parliamentary Black Caucus\, which develops constructive community policies and works to address systemic\, anti-black racism.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-muslim-awareness-week/
LOCATION:Atwater Library Auditorium\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, 2nd floor\, Westmount\, QC
CATEGORIES:QWF Events,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: Playwrights on Palestine/Israel II
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation between Arthur Milner and Ehab Lotayef \nTwo extraordinary writers sit down together to converse on the situation in Palestine and Israel as it connects to their arts practice and activism. This is the second in a series of online events in 2021 exploring Palestine and Israel through the eyes and work of writers. \nPresented by the Quebec Writers’ Federation. \nREGISTER HERE. \nArthur Milner\nArthur Milner is a playwright and theatre director. His most recent play is Getting to Room Temperature\, “a hard-hitting\, sentimental and funny one-person play about death.” Facts\, a murder mystery set in the West Bank\, premiered in Ottawa in 2010 and\, in 2013\, toured ten cities in Palestine and Israel in Arabic translation. Facts has also been produced in London\, the U.K.\, and Istanbul (in Turkish). Arthur was Artistic Director of Ottawa’s Great Canadian Theatre Company and has worked as a dramaturge across Canada. He writes on politics and culture for inroadsjournal.ca and has taught theatre at Concordia and Carleton universities\, University of Ottawa\, University of Calgary and\, soon\, the University of Regina. He now lives in Regina where his wife\, Jennifer Brewin\, is Artistic Director of Globe Theatre and where he and Rania Al-Harthi recently read the poems of Mahmoud Darwish for the Globe’s Art Out Loud Festival. \nEhab Lotayef\nEhab Lotayef is a Canadian IT Manager\, poet\, writer\, and community activist of Egyptian origin.  He has published a bilingual poetry collection\, To Love a Palestinian Woman (TSAR 2010)\, and the CBC produced his play Crossing Gibraltar in 2006.  His writings also appear in many anthologies and zines\, and he has written numerous Op Eds on various subjects for various Canadian papers over the years. \nEhab is deeply involved in social and community work\, including campaigns against the sanctions and war on Iraq\, opposing the blockade of Gaza\, and advocating for Native Rights. Over the years he has served on the boards of the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy\, the Muslim Council of Montreal\, Muslim Schools of Montreal\, the Canadian Arab Federation\, Fair Vote Canada\, and Teesri Duniya Theatre\, as well as on the Board of Governors of McGill University. He is currently on the boards of Montreal City Mission and QWF.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-playwrights-on-palestine-israel-ii/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Community Events,QWF Events,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:Black Writers Out Loud - Spoken Word Edition
DESCRIPTION:Roen Higgins\, Fabrice Koffy\, and Faith Paré in conversation with Jason “Blackbird” Selman.\n\nThis fantastic group of spoken word artists sit down with guest host Jason Selman for a conversation about their arts practice\, the Black Lives Matter movement and current pandemic. This is the second in a QWF series of online events celebrating black literary arts in Quebec. \n\nThe conversation will take place on September 24\, 2020 at 7 p.m. EDT via Zoom. \nPlease CLICK HERE to RSVP and receive the Zoom link via email.\n==========================================================\n\nROEN ‘BLU RIVA’ HIGGINS – From a hyper\, at-risk youth entangled in the system\, to an active community change agent\, Roen is a committed educator\, coach\, speaker\, and event producer. She is known to flip words and paint pictures through her diction and uses her-story to help others “Elevate Impact.”  Her community service and creative accomplishments have been recognized by Montreal Community Care Awards\, Black Theatre Workshop\, and Fonds 1804. In the ring of Improv & Slam poetry\, she echoes the realities of society yet never leaves the mic without a solution. Dubbed as ‘Blu Riva\,’ her unique style\, flow and delivery has gained her opportunities to perform before different audiences in different time zones. Her current projects are coaching multi-passionate creatives to get unstuck and tap into their creative potential\, and releasing a Poetry Project this year. \n\n \n\n\n\nFABRICE KOFFY – Originally from the Ivory Coast\, Fabrice Koffy settled in Montreal in 1998 to pursue university studies. This is where his journey of artistic expression begins\, as he joins the infamous Kalm Unity Vibe Collective\, with whom he collaborates for several years. In 2006\, he meets guitarist Guillaume Soucy. Grounded in a growing complicity\, their prolific union breathes life into a series of performances and the album Poésic is released in 2009 and selected by the Vue sur la Relève festival and the Montreal FrancoFolies. In 2016\, the album receives the Prix Coup de Coeur award from ICI Musique\, Diversité artistique Montréal (DAM) and La Vitrine during the 6th edition of the Vitrine des musiques locales et métissées (Local and Cross-Cultural Music Showcase) presented by Vision Diversité.  His poetry speaks of life through history where the human being is center stage.\n\n \n\nPhoto Credit: Isobel Rose Carnegie\n\nFAITH PARÉ – is a poet and performer of Afro-Guyanese and Québécois ancestries. Her writing is forthcoming in Carnation\, and has previously appeared in GUTS \, Ossa \, and Shameless Magazine. Faith is a proud alum of Our Bodies\, Our Stories\, a creative collective for queer\, trans Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Colour artists mentored by Kama La Mackerel\, and she recently completed the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s 2020 Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship for Underrepresented Writers under the guidance of Dr. Gillian Sze. She is studying for her Hons. B.A. in English and Creative Writing. Find her @paretriarchy and faithpare.com.\n\n \n\nJASON “BLACKBIRD” SELMAN – Jason “Blackbird” Selman is a Montreal born poet\, trumpet player and community worker. He is the author Africa As A Dream That Travels Through My Heart (2016\, Howl)\, The Freedom I Stole (2007\, Cumulus Press)\, and co-editor of the poetry anthology Talking Book (2006\, Cumulus Press) which chronicles the writings of Kalm Unity Vibe Collective (of which he is a founding member). He has done extensive poetry workshops across the Montréal area in schools and community groups. His work is grounded in the themes of ethno-musicology\, surrealist expression\, love and the intersection of masculinity and emotional vulnerability.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/bwol-2/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Events,QWF Events,Series,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:Black Writers Out Loud
DESCRIPTION:Diane Roberts\, Tali Taliwah (aka Nantali Indongo)\, and Nigel Thomas in conversation with Deborah Forde. \nThis extraordinary group of artists sits down with guest host Deborah Forde for a conversation about their arts practice\, the Black Lives Matter movement\, and the current pandemic. This is the first in a series of four online events in 2020 celebrating Black literary arts in Quebec. Presented by the QWF. \nThe conversation will take place on July 30\, 2020 at 7 p.m. EDT via Zoom. \nPlease CLICK HERE to RSVP and receive the Zoom link via email.\n========================================================= \nDiane Roberts is an accomplished director\, dramaturge\, writer and cultural animator who has collaborated with innovative theatre visionaries and interdisciplinary artists for the past 30 years. Her directorial and dramaturgical work has been seen on stages across Canada and her reputation as a mentor\, teacher and community collaborator is nationally and internationally recognized. Diane is a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholar and current PhD Candidate in the Fine Arts Interdisciplinary HUMA program. Diane’s celebrated Arrivals Legacy Project has birthed new Interdisciplinary works across Canada\, throughout the Americas\, in the UK\, Europe\, Africa and the Caribbean. This work has allowed her to articulate\, cultivate and realize a vision for theatre that encourages Indigenous ways of knowing as a stepping-stone to creative expression.  \n  \nTali Taliwah (aka Nantali Indongo) is an emcee and vocalist in the Montreal Hip Hop supergroup\, Nomadic Massive. For the past 15 years\, be it at internationally renowned festivals or local community concerts\, the band has toured the world to connect with people. Part of her personal objective as a member of the group is to celebrate the depth of Afro-Caribbean-Canadian identity\, far from any Club Med image. In addition to recording and performing music\, Tali has also devoted 10 years demonstrating the educational potential of Hip Hop culture\, bringing a non-formal educational workshop series about the non-violent origins of Hip Hop culture into classrooms and communities across Quebec\, Canada and the world.\n \n  \nH. Nigel Thomas is a retired professor of United States literature. He has published dozens of essays in literary journals and anthologies as well as eleven books that include five novels and three collections of short stories. His novel Spirits in the Dark was nominated for the QSPELL Hugh MacLennan Fiction Award; and No Safeguards\, another novel\, was nominated for QWF’s Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. His novel Easily Fooled will be published in 2021. He is the founder and English-language coordinator of Lectures Logos Readings.  \n  \nDeborah Forde\, host – In 1999\, after over 20 years in community development\, Deborah’s work led her to the practice of professional community-engaged arts through the study of Theatre for Development at Concordia. Emerging first as a director\, with Bryan James’s Terminal Terminal and Rahul Varma’s State of Denial\, Deborah went on to spend two years supporting other emerging artists through Black Theatre Workshop’s YouthWorks\, and three years serving the English-speaking theatre community as Executive Director for the Quebec Drama Federation. She then went on to serve as Fireworks Development Program Coordinator for Teesri Duniya Theatre. She recently directed The Domestic Crusaders\, the inaugural production of Canada’s first Muslim theatre company\, Silk Road Institute.  Currently\, Deborah is Administrative Manager for ELAN-Quebec\, while she continues to freelance with the Teesri Duniya Theatre family. 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/bwol/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Events,QWF Events,Series,Writers Out Loud
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