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SUMMARY:Writing retreat in idyllic Central Switzerland
DESCRIPTION:Make time and space for you and your craft in idyllic Switzerland. Enjoy writing in inspiring surroundings in the supportive company of like-minded people\, and enhance your day with a walk in nature. Your tutor will guide you through daily workshops and discussions on key elements of writing\, such as characterisation\, plot\, point of view\, sense of place and dialogue. The final session will offer a practical approach to various stages of editing. The daily schedule incorporates private writing time. You can view a sample timetable on the website.\nHosted by an author and creative-writing tutor with years of experience (teaching all age groups and levels: from secondary-school pupils to students on Creative Writing undergraduate and Masters degrees).\nAccommodation will be at the intimate Gasthaus Paxmontana (built 1617) which belongs to the nearby Jugendstil-Hotel Paxmontana\, an icon of Art Nouveau listed in the Swiss Historic Hotels directory.\nThe course fee is inclusive of tuition\, accommodation and meals.\nTo learn more\, see website: https://valeriavescina.com/teaching/writing-retreats/
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-retreat-in-idyllic-central-switzerland/
LOCATION:Fl\, Gasthaus Paxmontana\, Flüeli-Ranft\, Obwalden\, Switzerland
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SUMMARY:The Art of Literary Translation
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, we will explore literary translation from French to English: fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, and songs. \n\n\n\nWe will look at contemporary literature from Quebec and France\, as well as some older (nineteenth- and twentieth-century) texts. Sources may include Gabrielle Roy\, Anne Hébert\, Annie Ernaux\, and Samuel Archibald. We will start by looking at an excerpt of a literary text in French and reading a published English translation of it. What difficulties (such as euphony\, voice\, word play\, and verb tense) did the translator face\, and how successful were they? At each meeting\, there will be time to produce your own translations\, often in groups. We will read our work aloud and comment on difficulties and strokes of inspiration. \n\n\n\nParticipants will have the opportunity to translate a further passage from the same work (or from another) as a homework assignment for the next meeting. The corrected assignments provide individual feedback and lead to discussion of the issues encountered. \n\n\n\nDuring the course of the workshop\, you’ll be asked to present a passage you have translated from a work you have chosen\, commenting on the issues it presents\, and describing ways of solving these issues. This is an ideal opportunity to begin or pursue a project you intend to submit to a publisher. Jonathan Kaplanskywon a French Voices Award to translate Nobel Prize-winning author Annie Ernaux’s La vie extérieure (Things Seen)for the University of Nebraska Press. Recent translations include Jonathan Bécotte’s Like a Hurricane (Orca\, 2023) and Hélène Rioux’s The End of the World is Elsewhere (Guernica\, 2022). He has sat on the juries for the translation category of the Governor General’s Literary Awards and the John Glassco Translation Prize and recently translated the libretto of an opera by Hélène Dorion and Marie-Claire Blais entitled Yourcenar: An Island of Passions.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-art-of-literary-translation-2/2023-05-29/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Épiques Voices poetry reading
DESCRIPTION:The bilingual opening show\, Épiques Voices part of the 24th edition of the Festival de la poésie de Montréal under the theme Constellé*e*s.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/epiques-voices-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Café Cléopâtre\, 123o St. Laurent Blvd\, Montreal\, QC\, H2X2S5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Metatron Press Presents: CAPSULE: A Tetrad Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, June 1\, 7:30 pmUrsa Montreal\, 5589 Park Ave.\, Montreal\n\n\n\nJoin us for a long-awaited book launch to celebrate four Metatron Press releases that have come out over the past 3 years. Due to the pandemic\, we were unable to celebrate these books the way we had wished\, so it’s our hope to do right by these powerful works and share in welcoming them into our psychic and physical milieus by participating in an evening of active listening as each author reads from their books. \n\n\n\nFeaturing:\n\n\n\nLee Suksi (Toronto) launching The Nerves (2020)Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch launching knot body (2020)Trynne Delaney launching the half-drowned (2022)Jayson Keery (Philadelphia) launching The Choice Is Real (2023) \n\n\n\nDoors open at 7:30 pmReadings start at 8:00 pm \n\n\n\nBooks Being Read:\n\n\n\nThe Choice Is Real by Jason Keery\n\n\n\nChallenging the conventions of how queer and trans people are encouraged to tell their stories\, The Choice is Real engages the concept of choice in queerness and trivializes the linear “born-this-way” narratives that queer people are sold. In response to a second puberty brought on by medical transition and an unravelling of family structures following the death of their stepmother\, Keery regresses through a warped and foreboding childhood landscape saturated with pop culture iconography. Writing with and against Disney classics\, Keery moves between formative memories and contemporary moments\, weaving in accounts of current relations in their playful uprooting of assumptions of queer relationality. Opening with a cheeky epigraph from trans author and activist Lou Sullivan: “I love being a girl. So delicate\,” The Choice is Real explodes with celebration and criticism of girlhood from a transmasculine perspective. \n\n\n\nthe half-drowned by Trynne Delaney\n\n\n\nthe half-drowned is a vision of a future at the end of the world where what survives is the shapeshifting love of family both given and chosen. Drawing on the Afro-diasporic ancestral knowledge of water and the urgency of desire\, Delaney builds a glittering\, speculative world where community holds through grief\, where we must choose to fend for ourselves while also caring for others. the half-drowned is a genre-bending novella that crafts a polyphony of voices to speak to and through our lives and dreams in order to reach for the unspoken and unsayable and make it heard. \n\n\n\nthe half-drowned was the winner of the Concordia University First Book Prize at The Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards in 2022. \n\n\n\nknot body by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch\n\n\n\nBringing together poetry\, essay\, and letters to “lovers\, friends and in-betweens\,” Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch confronts the ways capitalism\, fatphobia\, ableism\, transness\, and racializations affect people with chronic pain\, illness\, and disability. knot body explores what it means to discover the limits of your body\, and contends with what those limitations bring up in the world we live in.  \n\n\n\nknot body was shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s Concordia University First Book Prize. Their second collection of poetry\, The Good Arabs (Metonymy Press)\, won the 2022 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. \n\n\n\nThe Nerves by Lee Suksi\n\n\n\nThe Nerves subverts the literary approach to sexuality by treating the erotic not as a site of anxiety but of reverie. Set in an imaginary world where our sense memories tell us who we are\, Lee Suksi’s literary debut is psychedelic\, attentive\, cinematic and hot. Writing toward sensitivity and ecstasy\, exploring touch as healing abandon\, The Nerves is charged with desire\, devotion\, and creative fantasy. Through a series of joyful encounters\, Suksi reminds us that pleasure can be abundant\, nuanced and that it can heal. Engaging in a queer erotics of language\, Suksi’s debut is a bundle of wet atmospheres\, speaking to faith in touch.The Nerves won the award the award for LGBTQ Erotica at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2021.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/metatron-press-presents-capsule-a-tetrad-book-launch/
LOCATION:Ursa Montreal\, 5589 Park Avenue\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2V 4S8\, Canada
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