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SUMMARY:The Annual "Write Here\, Write Now" December Reading
DESCRIPTION:The last few years have not been kind—many of us feel there is too much darkness in the world. Our poetry and prose cannot be as boisterous a celebration of the upcoming holidays as in previous seasons. \nFor the 2022 edition of their annual December reading\, Write Here\, Write Now members present more pensive and nostalgic pieces—but that does not mean the mood will include no leavening. There is joy and hope to be found even in the heart of darkness. \nThe last poem of the day is a WHWN standard that captures the whimsy of a child’s vision of the festive season. Everyone is most welcome! \nWrite Here\, Write Now is supported by Bishop’s University Lifelong Learning Academy.\nBishop’s University is located on the Traditional and Unceded Territory of the Abenaki People.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-annual-write-here-write-now-december-reading/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Reading
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SUMMARY:Advanced Memoir: The Second Draft
DESCRIPTION:This workshop on memoir is designed for people who have already studied at the intermediate level with Elaine Kalman Naves. Don’t be daunted by the “advanced” label. If you’ve completed an intermediate workshop with Elaine and are interested in writing\, reading\, and talking about memoir\, you are at a level to benefit from this workshop. \n\n\n\nAs of now\, we plan to host this workshop in-person at the QWF office\, with some slots open for remote participation. \n\n\n\nThough you need not be working on a book-length narrative\, you will be expected to have a specific project in mind. It can be something you were working on in a previous workshop or something entirely new. \n\n\n\nDuring the course of the eight-week workshop\, you will have the opportunity to submit a piece of up to 3000 words\, and with luck you will have a chance to present a second time. (More details about this once we get rolling.) \n\n\n\nInstead of a text\, you will have the opportunity to read some fine memoirs\, and the long lead-up to this fall workshop will give you a chance to do some advance reading. Please give priority in your summer reading to the terrific memoirs by the four writers who will be guest lecturers over the course of the session. (See below.) Once we have established who the actual workshop participants will be\, we will also supply you with a list of suggested optional works to enjoy over the course of the summer. \n\n\n\nThe emphasis will be on student input. Participants will not only be presenting their own work to the group but will also be expected to give careful reading of each other’s pieces in order to provide vital critical feedback. This element of the program is equally important to the writing. As in the past there will also be in-class exercises and discussion of topics of writerly interest. In a new departure\, we will start critiquing participants’ pieces at the very first session. Participants who volunteer to present early in the session will be much appreciated! Getting a head start will make it possible to present second drafts. Again\, we will work out these details ahead of time once the class list is established. \n\n\n\nHere are the names of the guest lecturers and their respective titles: \n\n\n\nMark Abley\, The Organist \n\n\n\nLinda Leith\, The Girl from Dream City \n\n\n\nHarriet Alida Lye\, Natural Killer \n\n\n\nRobyn Sarah\, Music\, Late and Soon \n\n\n\nAnd please don’t forget that William Zinsser’s On Writing Well is useful to have as a reference at your fingertips! \n\n\n\nTo apply\, please send the following to riley@qwf.org no later than July 6\, 2022. \n\n\n\nA 3- to 5-page double-spaced writing sample (nonfiction or fiction) that you feel is representative of your abilities.A paragraph or two outlining the writing project you plan to pursue in the workshop.\n\n\n\nElaine Kalman Naves is a long-time literary journalist and the author of seven non-fiction titles\, and of a novel.  She is a two-time recipient of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction\, the winner of two Canadian Jewish Book Awards\, and of a Canadian Literary Award for Personal Essay. Her memoir Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family has been made into a documentary film. Elaine’s novel\, The Book of Faith\, was nominated for the Leacock Prize for Humour. She has led workshops at the QWF since their inception in 1998.  To find out more about Elaine\, visit her website athttp://www.elainekalmannaves.com/
URL:https://qwf.org/event/advanced-memoir-the-second-draft/2022-12-05/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Winter Solstice Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Kelly Norah Drukker\, Gabrielle McIntire\, and Carolyn Van Der Meer for an evening of poetry in Old Montreal. \n\n\n\nKelly Norah Drukker is a Montreal-based writer. Her poetry collection Small Fires (MQUP\, 2016) won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Concordia University First Book Prize\, and was a finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal. Petits feux (trans. Lori Saint-Martin\, Paul Gagné) appeared in 2018. \n\n\n\nGabrielle McIntire is Professor of English Literature at Queen’s University. Her first book of poetry\, Unbound\, was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2021. She is also the author of Modernism\, Memory\, and Desire: T.S. Elliot and Virginia Woolf (Cambridge University Press\, 2008) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land (Cambridge University Press\, 2015). \n\n\n\nCarolyne Van Der Meer is the author of four published books: Motherlode: A Mosaic of Dutch Wartime Experience (WLUP\, 2014); Journeywoman (Inanna\, 2017)\, Heart of Goodness: The Life of Marguerite Bougeoys in 30 Poems | Du coeur à l’âme : La vie de Marguerite Bourgeoys en 30 poèmes (Guernica Editions\, 2020); and Sensorial (Inanna\, 2022).
URL:https://qwf.org/event/winter-solstice-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Librairie Bertrand\, 430 Rue Saint-Pierre\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H2Y 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Canadian Parents for French Quebec & Nunavut Virtual Cultural Event: DECEMBER | Bilingual Story Time
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a bilingual bedtime story session with children’s author\, Candace Amarante. \nAmarante will be reading Le ciel me sourit\, a short poem she wrote that metaphorically describes the lunar phases of the moon.   \nThe story-time session will be followed by an art activity\, where participants are invited to draw and share the way they see the moon. \nTarget age group: 3-6 years old \nRegister here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6y142aKIo4PCBIcAjv1NzBMUuq0fVB_MIEGuqwcuUt2s-bA/viewform
URL:https://qwf.org/event/canadian-parents-for-french-quebec-nunavut-virtual-cultural-event-december-bilingual-story-time/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual
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SUMMARY:The Pipeline Play Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Infinithéâtre’s annual Pipeline play reading series is back! Join us from December 7th-10th at Maison Internationale des Arts de la Marionnette (MIAM) for four FREE readings of in-development plays by Québec writers\, including this year’s Write-on-Q winner. Come check out these new and promising pieces!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-pipeline-play-reading-series/
LOCATION:La Maison Internationale des Arts de la Marionnette\, 30 Av. Saint-Just\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H2V 1X8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Festival,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T180000
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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/2022-12-08/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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