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SUMMARY:Double Book Launch: Sean Michaels & Catherine Leroux
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, Sept 10\, 7 pmShakti Rock Gym (175 rue Saint-Viateur E.\, Montreal)\n\n\n\nJoin Sean Michaels and Catherine Leroux at Shakti Rock Gym at 175 St Viateur St. E H2T 1B4 at 7 pm on Sunday\, September 10th for the double launch of Do You Remember Being Born? and The Future! The evening will feature readings\, Q&A\, and signings. \n\n\n\nThe event is free and open to all. Books will be available for purchase at the event and the authors will sign copies of their books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScotiabank Giller Prize-winner Sean Michaels‘ luminous new novel takes readers on a lyrical joy ride—seven\, epic days in Silicon Valley with a tall\, formidable poet (inspired by the real-life Marianne Moore) and her unusual new collaborator\, a digital mind just one month old. It’s both a love letter to and an aching examination of art-making\, AI\, family\, identity and belonging. \n\n\n\nSean Michaels is the author of the novels Us Conductors\, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize\, and The Wagers; his non-fiction has appeared in The Globe and Mail\, The Guardian\, Pitchfork and The New Yorker. He lives in Montreal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn an alternate history of Detroit\, the Motor City was never surrendered to the US. Its residents deal with pollution\, poverty\, and the legacy of racism—and strange and magical things are happening: children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves. When Gloria arrives looking for answers and her missing granddaughters\, at first she finds only a hungry mouse in the derelict home where her daughter was murdered. But the neighbours take pity on her and she turns to their resilience and impressive gardens for sustenance. When a strange intuition sends Gloria into the woods of Parc Rouge\, where the city’s orphaned and abandoned children are rumored to have created their own society\, she can’t imagine the strength she will find. A richly imagined story of community and a plea for persistence in the face of our uncertain future\, The Future is a lyrical testament to the power we hold to protect the people and places we love—together. \n\n\n\nCatherine Leroux is a Québec novelist\, translator and editor born in 1979. Her novel Le mur mitoyen won the France-Quebec Prize and its English version\, The Party Wall\, was nominated for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Future received the Jacques-Brossard award for speculative fiction and was nominated for the Quebec Booksellers Prize. Catherine also won the 2019 Governor general award for her translation of Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. She lives in Montreal with her two children.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/double-book-launch-sean-michaels-catherine-leroux/
LOCATION:Shakti Rock Gym\, 175 rue Saint-Viateur Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 1B4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Mona Awad launches Rouge with Heather O'Neill and a special No Joy solo set
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, Sept 13\, 6:30 pm\n\n\n\nOn September 13th\, Librairie Drawn and Quarterly will be hosting a captivating event for the launch of Mona Awad’s upcoming novel\, Rouge\, featuring Montreal’s coup de coeur Heather O’Neill as well as an experimental solo performance by a local shoegaze artist\, No Joy.  \n\n\n\nThe evening will take place at La Sotteranea at 4848 St Laurent Blvd H2T 1R5 on Wednesday\, September 13th\, and will feature a special No Joy solo set\, a reading\, a conversation\, an audience Q&A\, and a signing. \n\n\n\nDoors: 6:30pmShow: 7:00pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\nTicket deal! Free entry to the event with a purchase of Rouge! \n\n\n\nBuy tickets here: https://www.venuepilot.co/events/81344/orders/new \n\n\n\nBook + ticket purchasers can pick up their copy of Rouge at the launch. Tickets also available in store at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly. \n\n\n\nBooks will be on sale at the event and the author will be signing. \n\n\n\nTicket Giveaway\n\n\n\nQWF is delighted to partner with Librairie Drawn & Quarterly to offer two free tickets to our members (one ticket each)! \n\n\n\nTo enter the giveaway\, email John Wickham at john@qwf.org with your full name and with “Giveaway” in the subject line. \n\n\n\nThe deadline to enter is Sunday\, September 10. The names of the winners will be drawn on Monday\, September 11. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Rouge\n\n\n\nFrom the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted\, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep? \n\n\n\nFor as long as she can remember\, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies\, Belle finds herself back in Southern California\, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral\, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise\, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes\, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse\, the same lavish\, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There\, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass. \n\n\n\nSnow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty\, envy\, grief\, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror\, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals\, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality\, our collective fixation with the surface\, and the wondrous\, deep longing that might lie beneath. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMona Awad is the author of Bunny\, named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME\, Vogue\, and the New York Public Library. It was a finalist for the New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. It is currently optioned for film with Bad Robot Productions. Awad’s debut\, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl\, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize\, winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Her most recent novel\, All’s Well\, was longlisted for the International Dublin Award and a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror. Rouge\, her fourth novel\, is forthcoming September 2023 with Simon & Schuster. She teaches fiction in the Creative Writing program at Syracuse University and is based in Boston. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeather O’Neill is a novelist\, short-story writer and essayist. Her bestselling novel The Lonely Hearts Hotel won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and CBC’s Canada Reads. Her previous work\, which includes Lullabies for Little Criminals\, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Daydreams of Angels\, has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction\, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize two years in a row. She has won CBC’s Canada Reads and the Danuta Gleed Award. Born and raised in Montreal\, O’Neill lives there with her daughter. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSince first arriving on the scene in 2009 with blistering inversions of shoegaze\, Montreal’s No Joy has always found formidable ways to reinvent itself. Now solely composed of musician Jasamine White-Gluz\, No Joy has evolved over the course of four studio albums and five EPs\, defying expectation and genre\, and cementing itself as something rare: a band without a category. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLibrairie Drawn & Quarterly would like to acknowledge that their events and bookstores are located on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. Many of us refer to Montreal as our home\, but it is named Tiohtiá:ke. It has always been a gathering place for many First Nations and continues to be home to a diverse population of Indigenous peoples. We are grateful that creating and sharing stories has been a part of this land for thousands of years. \n\n\n\nLa Sotteranea is located in the basement down a flight of stairs (approximately 38 steps). There are gender neutral washrooms which are not wheelchair accessible. Anyone needing assistance accessing our space can contact the venue as they are more than happy to try and accommodate people to the best of their ability.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-rouge-by-mona-awad/
LOCATION:La Sotteranea\, 4848 Boulevard Saint-Laurent\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 1R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Performance
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SUMMARY:5 voix
DESCRIPTION:Montreal writer Carolyn Marie Souaid will be presenting her latest poems in the form of abstract landscapes\, September 14th to 19th (1 to 8 pm) at Galerie Espace\, 4844\, Boul. Saint-Laurent. Opening night is Thursday\, September 14th at 5 pm. Souaid will be joined by visual artists Sylvie Lauzon\, Jocelyne Aubry\, Claire Bolduc and Lucie Arsenault.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/5-voix/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 16\, 10:00 am–12:30 pmOnline via Zoom—RSVP below to receive the Zoom link\n\n\n\nLooking for some dedicated\, quiet writing space? \n\n\n\nRegister below to do all that writing you’ve been meaning to do. 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. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member.  \n\n\n\nThe Zoom link will be sent out a day or two before the session. \n\n\n\nPlease note that these sessions are designed for silent writing\, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work. \n\n\n\n10:00–10:25: Writing 110:25–10:30: Break10:30–10:55: Writing 210:55–11:00: Break11:00–11:25: Writing 311:25–11:30: Break11:30–11:55: Writing 411:55–12:00: Break12:00–12:25: Writing 5 \n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom link\, RSVP below.Note: RSVPs will close 24 hours before the event starts. If there is no option to RSVP\, RSVPs are closed.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-34/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Shut Up & Write!
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