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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Residency 2022 | Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
DESCRIPTION:This workshop-based program focuses on providing structured support for new Young Adult (YA) & Children’s Literature writers wanting to improve their writing skills. Two faculty\, Katherena Vermette and Tanya Boteju will work closely with 7 participants each\, offering new writers the opportunity to work on a portion of a manuscript in a workshop setting with editorial faculty. \nThe program will help writers build their critical vocabulary\, making them better critics of their own and others’ work. Participants will also learn more about the craft of writing\, and about the conventions and possibilities for innovation in YA and Children’s Literature. \nWhat does the program offer?\nThis 13-day residency provides thematic teaching from faculty members\, Q&A sessions\, public events\, and one-on-one workshopping. Instructors will discuss ideas\, experiences\, and obstacles that participants may be encountering with their new manuscripts and emerging practices. \nIn addition to a single room\, and a small private studio\, you will be surrounded by a community of artistic peers with the opportunity to attend inspiring talks\, performances\, and meet with guest faculty to consult on your work.  \nWho should apply?\n\nAny new writer of YA or Children’s Literature interested in structured feedback from faculty and fellow participants will benefit from this program.  The program is open to writers with no publications\, a few publications\, or even a first book.  \nWriters from all backgrounds\, and all gender identities and expressions are encouraged to apply. \n\nApplication Deadline: July 06\, 2022 \n*Financial Aid of up to 100% of tuition fee and 50% of meal and accommodation fee is available for this program.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/emerging-writers-residency-2022-banff-centre-for-arts-and-creativity/
LOCATION:Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive\, Banff\, Alberta\, T1L 1H5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Writing About Trauma (Without Being Super Annoying)
DESCRIPTION:Open to all. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants \n\n\n\nWe plan to hold this workshop in person at the QWF office\, with up to two virtual slots available for people who are unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it\, this workshop may transition to a purely online model.  \n\n\n\nThere was a time when bad things would happen to me\, and I would be like\, this is so terrible\, my life is so awful. Then\, I became a writer. Now\, when bad things happen to me\, I think: this kind of thing is so awful… for people who are not writers. This is going to make such a good essay. \n\n\n\nBeing a writer is a superpower. Writers are often uniquely sensitive\, which can make us vulnerable — but that sensitivity\, when channelled appropriately\, can turn into our greatest strength. When we learn to transmute our challenging\, painful\, and even traumatic experiences into art\, we learn a very real kind of invulnerability: a capacity to spin agony into gold\, a way in which we are always safe\, always on top\, and can always have the last word. At its best\, this skill can allow us to wrest power back from our worst experiences and literally pave a road to fame\, fortune\, healing\, and transcendence. There are\, however\, a few essential skills we must learn along the way. \n\n\n\nIn this eight-week workshop\, Montreal-based poet and nonfiction writer Tara McGowan-Ross will take the participants on a journey through their shadows\, mistakes\, betrayals\, and heartbreaks\, towards the end of creating a powerful and transformative piece of work. She will cover subjects ranging from basic critical thinking and how to apply it\, to how to create a safe container for your difficult feelings\, to the ethics of writing nonfiction\, which inevitably includes other people with opinions and boundaries — to injecting the kind of skill\, humour\, and humanity required of a work so that it may avoid the most common pitfall of writing trauma narratives: being\, like\, super annoying. \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\ngirthgirl.ca \n\n\n\ntaramcgowanross.substack.com \n\n\n\n@girthgirl (Instagram/Twitter)
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-about-trauma-without-being-super-annoying/2022-10-03/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:NOTA: Next on the Agenda - Writing Futures in Quebec
DESCRIPTION:A conference for English-language writers\, publishers\, event organizers\, and literary professionals to discuss the changing context for literature and to explore how writing careers are developed\, supported\, and sustained in Quebec in 2022. The in-person conference is sold out\, but you can still register to participate virtually at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/nota-next-on-the-agenda-writing-futures-in-quebec-tickets-400555300687
URL:https://qwf.org/event/nota-next-on-the-agenda-writing-futures-in-quebec/
LOCATION:4th SPACE\, Concordia University\, 1400 De Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montreal\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,QWF Events
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SUMMARY:Your Story\, Embodied
DESCRIPTION:Open to storytellers of all levels of experience. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants. \n\n\n\nWe plan to hold this workshop in person at the QWF office\, with up to two virtual slots available for people who are unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it\, this workshop may transition to a purely online model. \n\n\n\nHave you ever sat captivated by a stranger standing on a stage recounting true events from their life? Did you get caught up in the tension of the room\, waiting with everyone else to find out what would happen next? Ever wonder what it would be like to hold an audience’s breath in the palm of your hand? \n\n\n\nYou can. You already have everything you need: your body. \n\n\n\nJoin Lukas and Emma\, two seasoned and engaging storytellers\, for eight weeks of exploration into using your body to craft and perform your own true-life stories. \n\n\n\nThe objectives of this workshop are to: \n\n\n\nEquip participants to prepare and perform a five-minute true story with no notes and no props.Facilitate and support exploration of emotionally charged material in search of unique stories.Harness the inherent strength of your body – the vessel for sharing your stories.Examine the tenets of storytelling\, including finding your narrative\, conflict\, and other essential elements of storycraft.\n\n\n\nThese intimate sessions will involve a mixture of group discussion\, critical analysis of stories\, and workshopping participants’ own stories with the goal of embodying an original five-minute story for invited guests at the final session. Stories will be workshopped in groups as well as one-on-one with facilitators and fellow workshop participants. \n\n\n\nEach week will focus on a particular theme with a corresponding body part\, with story examples to support each theme and illustrate the foundations of storytelling. By week 3\, participants should have a story in mind that we will work on for the final presentation. \n\n\n\nLukas Rowland is a writer\, storyteller\, and bodywork practitioner. He has told many stories with Confabulation\, where he is producer and communications coordinator. He was selected for the QWF Mentorship Program in 2020\, where he studied under Carousel author April Ford as a fiction mentee. He curated and produced an evening of queer stories for the Violet Hour. Though he has lived in and around Montreal these past 14 years\, he comes from Southern Louisiana\, where storytelling is part of every Cajun’s life. You can find him on Twitter @lukaslikeswords and on Instagram at @luka2ndfloor and at lukasrowland.com. \n\n\n\nEmma Lanza is a born-and-bred Montrealer with a background in storytelling\, theatre performance\, and arts management. She earned her Master’s degree in Library Science and currently works in medical research administration. A self-proclaimed fat bisexual babe\, Emma is a staunch believer in fat liberation and radical self-love and she wants you to know you look fabulous in that outfit! She has performed at Confabulation\, YARN\, The Wiggle Room\, Concordia University\, and Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids. She founded the bi-monthly Fattie Book Club @fattiebookclub and can be found on Instagram @emma_lanza and on Twitter @emmalanza.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/your-story-embodied/2022-10-05/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:The Art of the Short Story
DESCRIPTION:Open to all. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants. \n\n\n\nWe plan to hold this workshop in person at the QWF office\, with up to two virtual slots available for people who are unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it\, this workshop may transition to a purely online model. \n\n\n\nOpen to writers of all levels\, this 10-week workshop is an investigation of the modern short story. What exactly is a story? What distinguishes it from an anecdote\, or a lie?  Most of us recognize a good one when we meet it on the page. It moves us\, often unexpectedly\, to laughter or tears. And it marks us\, reaching inside us and shifting\, sometimes subtly and other times with a jolt\, our views about ourselves and the world. The best stories articulate truths that we hadn’t\, until the moment of reading\, thought to put into words. \n\n\n\nThere is no set of rules for how to write a good story.  Each writer has to find their own way\, and each story demands fresh experiments. Writing is like living. It requires close listening and relentless improvisation.  The best way to learn how to write a good story is to read one. In this workshop\, we’ll read “In the Cart” (1897) by Anton Chekhov\, and investigate Chekhov’s views about this genre. We’ll also look at his technique: how he used elements like detail\, narrative point of view\, and speech to create a story strong enough to withstand the tests of time and translation. Over a century after Chekhov’s death\, his stories are still read and loved in places totally unlike Czarist Russia. What secrets can his work reveal to us in 21st-century Quebec? \n\n\n\nOur first four meetings will be devoted to discussing “In the Cart” (accessible online; also translated as “The Schoolmistress\,” and “A Journey by Cart”). Exercises relating to various elements of craft will be offered. The last six meetings will be reserved for workshopping our own stories and continuing the exploration of what exactly a story is\, and how to write one. \n\n\n\nClaire Holden Rothman is a Montreal writer\, translator\, and fiction editor who has published two collections of stories and three novels. The Heart Specialist (2009) was long-listed for The Scotia Bank-Giller Prize\, and My October was long-listed for the Giller and short-listed for the Governor General’s Award. Her most recent novel\, Lear’s Shadow\, was short-listed for Quebec’s 2020 Jacob Isaac Segal Award\, and won the 2019 Vine Award for Jewish Canadian Fiction. For many years\, Claire taught English literature and creative writing at Marianopolis College. She has also taught fiction workshops at McGill and Bishop’s Universities.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-art-of-the-short-story/2022-10-06/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Edit like an Editor: How to Edit Your Own Prose
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is open to all levels of writers who have a prose manuscript they want to work on. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will be conducted via Zoom. \n\n\n\nUsing tips\, tricks\, and hands-on exercises\, workshop participants will learn about the different types of editing (including developmental editing\, line editing\, copyediting\, and fact checking) and how to see their own work with fresh eyes. \n\n\n\nThrough reading\, discussion\, and exercises\, this workshop will cover: \n\n\n\nHow to see your own work with an editor’s eyeSpotting common problems (info dumping\, “as you know\, Bob” explanations\, insufficient conflict\, misunderstanding genre conventions\, etc.)Understanding character development (goals and motivation)How to make the most out of dialoguePoint of view\, and common problems with point of view (e.g. head hopping)\n\n\n\nThis workshop is geared toward book-length manuscripts\, including short story and essay collections. Applicants must submit an excerpt from their manuscript (maximum 25 pages) along with a short description of the whole project in order to be considered for the workshop. After registering below\, you have until September 9 to send your document(s) to workshops@qwf.org\, with “For Maria Turner” in the subject line. \n\n\n\nBy the end of the workshop\, participants will have an in-depth editorial plan for their manuscript and have a solid understanding of the different types of editing and how to apply them to their own work. \n\n\n\nMaria Schamis Turner is a freelance editor specializing in developmental editing and line editing for fiction and creative nonfiction. She is a founding editor and previous editor-in-chief and creative nonfiction editor of the literary magazine carte blanche. She worked for 10 years on literary projects for CBC Radio\, including as an editor for Canada Writes. She was also the producer of the true story storytelling series This Really Happened and has taught numerous workshops on storytelling\, writing\, and editing. \n\n\n\nTurneredits.com \n\n\n\nTwitter: @turnmaria \n\n\n\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/turnmaria
URL:https://qwf.org/event/edit-like-an-editor-how-to-edit-your-own-prose/2022-10-06/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Writing Outside the Box: A Workshop on Edgy Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Open to writers of all experience levels. \n\n\n\nDue to the content in some of the exercises\, this workshop is restricted to participants aged 18+. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants \n\n\n\nWe plan to hold this workshop in person at the QWF office\, with up to two virtual slots available for people who are unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it\, this workshop may transition to a purely online model. \n\n\n\nLooking to shake up your process? Interested in breaking the rules a little? Designed to inspire unique approaches to creative writing\, this workshop will help squash your inner editor and provoke your inner rebel\, giving you the confidence you need to write more openly and honestly. \n\n\n\nOver the course of eight weeks\, participants will delve into the work of unconventional writers like Italo Calvino\, Kelly Link\, John Elizabeth Stintzi\, and George Saunders. You’ll learn tips and techniques for producing work quickly and fearlessly. You’ll dabble with ekphrasis\, magic realism\, and second-person perspective\, and you’ll hone your ability to give and receive constructive feedback in a wildly creative working environment. \n\n\n\nThis is a fun\, provocative\, and productive workshop that’s generated award-winning fiction and long-term friendships. It is suitable for writers of any experience level\, from the shy beginner to the established professional\, working in any medium or genre. And while filled with lesson-based exercises and guided assignments\, this workshop is happily (and willfully) anti-academic. Participants are not taught writing theory but are encouraged to develop their skills through the acts of reading and writing alone. Here\, you learn by doing. \n\n\n\nThere is no submission required prior to the first session. Participants will be expected to share fiction with the group as the workshop progresses. \n\n\n\nThis is the perfect way to kickstart a project\, rejuvenate your existing process\, or to simply step outside of your comfort zone by experimenting with new approaches to creativity. \n\n\n\nCome play with the weird kids of creative writing. (One of us. One of us.) \n\n\n\nTrepassey-born writer Tracey Waddleton splits her time between the island of Newfoundland and the island of Montreal. Her first book\, Send More Tourists… the Last Ones Were Delicious\, was published by Breakwater Books in July of 2019 and won the 2020 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. She is the inaugural recipient of the Quebec Writers’ Federation Max Margles Writing Residency and is spending/spent the month of August writing in Dublin\, Ireland  in 2022. \n\n\n\nwww.traceywaddleton.com \n\n\n\nInstagram: @bartlebomb \n\n\n\nTwitter: @traceywaddleton \n\n\n\nFacebook: www.facebook.com/tracey.waddleton
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-outside-the-box-a-workshop-on-edgy-fiction-4/2022-10-06/
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF
DESCRIPTION:Looking for some dedicated\, quiet writing space? \n\n\n\nRegister below to do all that writing you’ve been meaning to do in the (virtual) company of fellow writers! Using the Pomodoro technique\, participants write in 25-minute bursts\, with 5 minutes break in between. \n\n\n\nThis event is for QWF members only. You have to be signed in to the website in order to see the registration options. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member. (Please contact Riley at riley@qwf.org if you are having difficulties registering) \n\n\n\nPlease note that these sessions are designed for silent writing\, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work. \n\n\n\n1000 – 1025: Writing 11025 – 1030: Break1030 – 1055: Writing 21055 – 1100: Break1100 – 1125: Writing 31125 – 1130: Break1130 – 1155: Writing 41155 – 1200: Break1200 -1225: Writing 5\n\n\n\nNote: Only 12 people are admitted per session. Due to high demand\, you must reserve your seat in advance. RSVPs will open exactly one week before each session (i.e.\, every other Saturday).
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-10/
LOCATION:Quebec
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