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SUMMARY:Women's All-day Writing Retreat
DESCRIPTION:All-day women’s writing retreat on Parc Laurier with Lise Weil. Designed to help generate new material and move you deeper into existing work. For experienced writers in all genres. \nNon-binary people welcome. \n$90 includes lunch and light supper. \nLise Weil\, Ph. D.\, teaches in Goddard College’s Graduate Institute and has over thirty years’ experience teaching writing in both academic and alternative settings. \nwww.liseweil.com \nFor more info: lweil22@gmail.com
URL:https://qwf.org/event/womens-all-day-writing-retreat/
LOCATION:Parc Laurier\, 1028 Laurier E\, Montreal\, QC\, H2J 1G6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:True Reads Book Club: The Undying
DESCRIPTION:Come discuss the most interesting books in new Non-Fiction with our True Reads book club! Happening every 4-6 weeks hosted by Librairie Drawn & Quarterly staff. \nFor our February meeting\, we’ll be reading THE UNDYING by Anne Boyer. The book club will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard Ouest at 7pm. This month’s meeting is hosted by Drawn & Quarterly Bookseller Benjamin. Join us for discussion and drinks! \n**We offer a 20% discount on THE UNDYING by Anne Boyer from now until the meeting date.* \nTHE UNDYING\nA week after her forty-first birthday\, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care\, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. \nA twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor\, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival\, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens\, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists\, cancer hoaxers and fetishists\, cancer vloggers\, corporate lies\, John Donne\, pro-pain ”dolorists\,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy\, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture” while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde\, Kathy Acker\, Susan Sontag\, and others. \nA genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts\, The Undying will break your heart\, make you angry enough to spit\, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally\, perversely glorious. \n*By purchasing your book at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly you help support free events like this one\, independent publishing and retailing\, our neighborhood\, and authors both local and from around the world who depend on independent bookstores for their livelihood. You also get to take advantage of a great discount! Your support is appreciated.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/true-reads-book-club-the-undying/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Heure du conte | Story Time: Les ours! Bears!
DESCRIPTION:La Petite Librairie D&Q hosts a weekly bilingual story time every Saturday at 11:30. Story times are free and open to all but most suitable for kids ages 3-5. Join us on Saturday February 29th at 11:30 for a story time all about bears! \nRejoignez-nous à La Petite Librairie D&Q chaque Samedi à 11 h 30 pour une heure du conte bilingue. Les heures du contes sont gratuits et ouvert à tous mais surtout destinées aux 3 à 5 ans. Rejoignez-nous le 29 février pour lire des histoires sur les ours !
URL:https://qwf.org/event/heure-du-conte-story-time-les-ours-bears/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T203000
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SUMMARY:Accent Open Mic - Cactus Press Launch
DESCRIPTION:Accent Open Mic is a bilingual poetry series based in Montreal\, Quebec that takes place on the first and third Tuesday of the month from 8:30 pm to 11 at ‘La Marche a Cote’ 5043 St. Denis. Every week Accent features two poets – 1 Francophone\, 1 Anglophone – followed by an open mic. \nFebruary 18th\, we will be launching James Dunnigan’s new chapbook of poetry through Cactus Press (cactuspresspoetry.com).
URL:https://qwf.org/event/accent-open-mic-cactus-press-launch/
LOCATION:La Marche à côté\, 5043 St-Denis\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2J 2L8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Kaie Kellough - Dominoes at the Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the launch of Dominoes at the Crossroads! Kaie Kellough will be interviewed by Dimitri Nasrallah\, and of course\, Kaie will be reading from his story collection. \nStories that map an alternate Canada—one crisscrossed by a Caribbean diaspora seeking futures\, portals to the past\, and music. \n“Dominoes at the Crossroads is at once boldly speculative yet meticulously faithful to the textures and histories of place. It is a book both witty and moving\, self-reflexive and cunningly metaphysical. Kaie Kellough is an astonishingly talented and versatile artist whose ongoing calibrations of sound and language find new form here in scrupulously lucid prose.” –David Chariandy\, author of Brother \nAn internationally acclaimed sound performer and writer\, Kaie Kellough’s books include Accordéon\, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Amazon Canada First Novel Award\, and Magnetic Equator\, shortlisted for the 2019 Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Born in Vancouver\, he currently lives in Montréal.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-kaie-kellough-dominoes-at-the-crossroads/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Morris House Reading Series - Elise Moser
DESCRIPTION:Bishop’s University is pleased to host Elise Moser\, who will be reading from her YA novel\, Lily & Taylor\, which was named to the Best Fiction for Young Adults 2014 list by the American Library Association. The reading will be followed by a Q&A and an informal reception.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/morris-house-reading-series-elise-moser/
LOCATION:Bishop’s University\, 2600 College Street\, Sherbrooke\, Quebec\, J1M 1Z7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T170000
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SUMMARY:Double Book Launch: "CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event" & "Home Feelings"
DESCRIPTION:Launch of the book CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event edited by Jason Camlot and Katherine McLeod and the book Home Feelings by Jody Mason. Hosted by the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada\, the launch will feature two 10 minute presentations by the editors and author\, and will be followed by a cocktail. Books will be available for purchase at the event. \nABOUT the books and editors/authors: \nCANLIT ACROSS MEDIA: UNARCHIVING THE LITERARY EVENT\nAn innovative collection that evaluates diverse methods of recording\, archiving\, and remediating literature and literary culture in Canada. \nJason Camlot is professor in the Department of English at Concordia University.\nKatherine McLeod is an affiliated researcher with SpokenWeb at Concordia University. \nHOME FEELINGS\nA history of the Canadian reading camp movement and the meanings of literacy\, literature\, and citizenship in the early twentieth century.\nJody Mason is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/double-book-launch-canlit-across-media-unarchiving-the-literary-event-home-feelings/
LOCATION:Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore\, 2220 McGill College Ave\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 3P9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: William Gibson  - Agency (with guest Natalia Yanchak)
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we launch William Gibson’s latest novel and follow-up to The Peripheral\, Agency\, with guest Natalia Yanchak! \nLibrairie Drawn & Quarterly and Penguin Random House present:\nWilliam Gibson launches Agency\nRialto Theatre – 5723 Park Ave\, Montréal\, QC H2V 4S8\nThursday 20th February 2020\, 19h\n(Présentation en anglais) \nWILLIAM GIBSON is credited with having coined the term “cyberspace” and having envisioned both the Internet and virtual reality before either existed. He is the author of Neuromancer\, Count Zero\, Mona Lisa Overdrive\, Burning Chrome\, Virtual Light\, Idoru\, All Tomorrow’s Parties\, Pattern Recognition\, Spook Country\, Zero History\, Distrust That Particular Flavor\, and The Peripheral. He lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia\, with his wife. \nAGENCY\n“One of the most visionary\, original\, and quietly influential writers currently working”* returns with a sharply imagined follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel The Peripheral. \nWilliam Gibson has trained his eye on the future for decades\, ever since coining the term “cyberspace” and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel Neuromancer in the early 1980s. Cory Doctorow raved that The Peripheral is “spectacular\, a piece of trenchant\, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer.” Now Gibson is back with Agency—a science fiction thriller heavily influenced by our most current events. \nVerity Jane\, gifted app whisperer\, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant\, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. “Eunice\,” the disarmingly human AI in the glasses\, manifests a face\, a fragmentary past\, and a canny grasp of combat strategy. Realizing that her cryptic new employers don’t yet know how powerful and valuable Eunice is\, Verity instinctively decides that it’s best they don’t. \nMeanwhile\, a century ahead in London\, in a different time line entirely\, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers\, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. His boss\, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer\, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice are her current project. Wilf can see what Verity and Eunice can’t: their own version of the jackpot\, just around the corner\, and the roles they both may play in it. \n*The Boston Globe \nBorn in Toronto\, Canada\, NATALIA YANCHAK moved to Montreal to attend Concordia University’s Creative Writing program. After graduation\, she toured internationally as keyboardist and singer with The Dears. Finding moments between touring and recording sessions\, she began writing long and short-form speculative fiction. \nShe has written and produced content for VICE\, CBC\, Huffington Post Canada\, Paper Magazine\, and Cult Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in Luna Station Quarterly 035\, Nevertheless: Tesseracts Twenty-One and Selected Poems by Indie Rock Stars. She is a member of the QWF and CSFFA. \nNatalia likes cats\, growing her own food and playing video games. She lives in Montreal and can be found on Twitter and Instagram @nataliayanchak.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-william-gibson-agency-with-guest-natalia-yanchak/
LOCATION:Rialto Theatre\, 5723 Av du Parc\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2V 4G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Megan Fernandes - Good Boys w/ Alexei Perry Cox and Joshua Neves
DESCRIPTION:Poet Megan Fernandes celebrates the release of her new book\, Good Boys. She’ll be joined by Alexei Perry Cox and Joshua Neves. \nIn an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability\, Megan Fernandes’s GOOD BOYS offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage\, negotiations with race and travel\, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless\, nervy\, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city\, from enchantment to disgust\, always reemerging-just barely-on the trains and bridges and barstools of New York City. A child of the Indian ocean diaspora\, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory\, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the “hydrogen fruit” of nuclear fallout. Ultimately\, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds\, the hounded earth\, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and\, more importantly\, where to direct our mercy. \n//////////////////////////////////////// \nMEGAN FERNANDES is a writer living in New York City. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The New Yorker\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, Denver Quarterly\, Chicago Review\, Boston Review\, Rattle\, Pank\, The Common\, Guernica\, the Academy of American Poets\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, among others. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015). Her second book of poetry\, Good Boys\, was a finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize (2018)\, the Saturnalia Book Prize (2018)\, and is forthcoming with Tin House Books in February 2020. Fernandes is an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College and teaches courses on poetry\, creative nonfiction\, and critical theory. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California\, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. \nALEXEI PERRY COX is the author of the poetry collection Under Her. Her poetry\, fiction and non-fiction works have appeared in publications such as The Puritan\, Vallum\, Matrix\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, Lemonhound and The Beijinger. Excerpts of her forthcoming manuscript Finding Places to Make Places have been printed\, often in different iterations\, in The Fiddlehead (Fredericton)\, carte-blanche (Montreal) Hart House Review (Toronto)\, Contemporary Verse 2 (Winnipeg)\, Headlight Anthology (Montreal)\, and Journal Safar (جورنال سفر)\, Rusted Radishes and Makhzin (مخزن) in Beirut. She is finishing this manuscript and parenting two wondrous and very wee young ones named Isla and Ilham. \nJOSHUA NEVES is Canada Research Chair and Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) lab at Concordia University (Montréal). His research centers on digital media\, cultural and political theory\, and problems of development and legitimacy. He is the author of Underglobalization: Beijing’s Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy (2020)\, and co-editor of Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global (2017).
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-megan-fernandes-boys-w-alexei-perry-cox-and-joshua-neves/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Heure du conte en espagnol avec Yayo!
DESCRIPTION:La Petite Librairie D&Q hosts a weekly bilingual story time every Saturday at 11:30. Story times are free and open to all but most suitable for kids ages 3-5. Join us on February 22nd for a story time with our new artist-in-residence\, Yayo! Yayo will be doing a Spanish reading of his book Pikiq. \nRejoignez-nous à La Petite Librairie D&Q chaque Samedi à 11 h 30 pour une heure du conte bilingue. Les heures du contes sont gratuits et ouvert à tous mais surtout destinées aux 3 à 5 ans. Rejoignez-nous le 22 février pour une heure du conte avec notre nouveau auteur-en-résidence\, Yayo! Il va lire en espagnol son livre Pikiq.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/heure-du-conte-en-espagnol-avec-yayo/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Storytelling
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