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SUMMARY:Late Winter Writers Residency Online 2024
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nThe Late Winter Writers Residency Online is a small cohort program that gives you a chance to learn from each other and faculty\, attend exclusive talks\, ask questions\, and develop your practice. \nWhat does the program offer?\nThis two week online residency provides broad thematic teaching from faculty members\, Fawn Parker and Annick McAskill\, Q&A sessions and workshopping. Instructors will discuss ideas\, experiences\, and obstacles that you may be encountering with your writing of both poetry and fiction. \nOne-on-one mentorship will allow you to receive direct mentorship on craft and professional development. \nWho should apply?\nWriters in all creative genres are invited to apply. The online program is designed for emerging and established writers with a proven publication record. We welcome writers from all ages (18+)\, backgrounds\, and all gender identities and expressions. \nThis Residency only accepts projects that are being written in English. \nThis program is not open to applicants who have taken part in a Banff Centre residency in the last year\, nor to current faculty members of any other Banff Centre programming. \nApplication Deadline: November 08\, 2023\nProgram Dates: February 12 – February 23\, 2024\nLearn more and apply online: https://bit.ly/3o6Sf0q \n*Financial Aid of 100% of the program fee is available for this program.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/late-winter-writers-residency-online-2024/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Youth-Led Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, Feb 29\, 2024\, 7:00 pm ESTViva Vida\, 278 Ch. du Bord-du-Lac-Lakeshore\, Suite 2Point-Claire\, QC\, H9S 4K9\n\n\n\nYou’re invited to a Youth-Led Poetry Night\, a free event encouraging young writers to share their work with an audience. Everyone is welcome!  \n\n\n\nDesserts\, coffee\, and tea will be available.  \n\n\n\nHosted by MNA Greg Kelley & Samara O’Gorman (Poète/Poet). \n\n\n\nFeel free to bring your poetry\, or other forms of written work for our open mic—it will be a night of sharing stories\, art\, and connecting with other local artists \n\n\n\nTo RSVP: Email Gregory.Kelley.JACA@assnat.qc.ca.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/youth-led-poetry-night/
LOCATION:Viva Vida Art Gallery\, 278 Lakeshore Road\, suite 2\, Pointe-Claire\, Quebec\, H9S 4K9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Reading
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SUMMARY:Perspective in Literary Fiction
DESCRIPTION:This five-week workshop will offer a deep dive into the use of perspective in fiction. Storytellers operate in first-person\, second-person\, third-person limited\, third-person omniscient\, and more unusual points-of-view. What distinguishes these perspectives? What are their gifts and limitations? Most importantly\, what can your chosen perspective do for the story you want to tell? \n\n\n\nEach class will open with a discussion of perspective in some published fiction. How close is the narrator to the characters? How does the perspective affect the voice in which the story is told? What is the relationship of the voice to the characters? \n\n\n\nNext\, we will do two writing exercises. The first will be largely generative\, based on the reading. The second will be integrative\, guiding participants to apply what we are learning to their own stories or characters. \n\n\n\nAfter discussing the writing exercises\, we will devote the last part of each class to discussing participant stories. \n\n\n\nOn registration\, participants will receive a packet of published stories or samples to be discussed in the first class; reading for subsequent weeks will be distributed after our first meeting. Participants are encouraged to bring ½-1 page of fiction to share on the first day\, though they may choose instead to share some work generated in class. Subsequently\, each participant is encouraged to submit 3-10 pages of fiction to be discussed by the class with a special focus on perspective. Otherwise\, discussion will be tailored to participant preferences\, with an eye to making discussion as useful to the writer as possible.   \n\n\n\nParticipants should arrive each week having read the assigned stories and their peers’ work (approximately 40 pages). Be prepared to discuss these thoughtfully and with engagement! My goal is to create a space for candid and open-ended discussion. \n\n\n\nParticipants will finish the workshop with greater fluency and command in perspective\, as readers able to discern the subtleties and mechanics of this important aspect of our craft\, and as writers able to choose and employ a storytelling perspective with verve and confidence. \n\n\n\nPadma Viswanathan’s novels have been published in eight countries and shortlisted for various awards\, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her most recent book is Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime (Random House Canada\, 2023). Her short fiction\, essays\, and short translations can be found in Granta\, The Paris Review\, BRICK\, and elsewhere. Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas\, she has also served as fiction faculty at the Banff Center\, the Vermont Studio Center\, the Bread Loaf Conferences\, and the low-residency MFA of Fairleigh Dickinson University. More at www.padmaviswanathan.com 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/perspective-in-literary-fiction/2024-02-21/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 23\, 12:30 pm–3:00 pmFree\, In PersonQWF Office (Room 3\, 1200 Atwater Ave.\, Westmount)\n\n\n\nRegister for the session by filling out the RSVP form below. \n\n\n\nLooking for some dedicated\, quiet writing space? \n\n\n\nJoin us for an in-person Shut Up & Write session at the QWF office! \n\n\n\nDo all that writing you’ve been meaning to do\, and meet a few of your fellow QWF members. Using the Pomodoro technique\, participants write in 25 minute bursts\, with 5-minute breaks in between. \n\n\n\nThis event is for QWF members only. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member.  \n\n\n\nPlease note that these sessions are designed for silent writing\, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work. \n\n\n\n12:30–12:55: Writing 112:55–1:00: Break1:00–1:25: Writing 21:25–1:30: Break1:30–1:55: Writing 31:55–2:00: Break2:00–2:25: Writing 42:25–2:30: Break2:30–2:55: Writing 5 \n\n\n\nTo register\, RSVP below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting to the QWF Office\n\n\n\nOur office is located on the top floor of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, in Room 3. \n\n\n\nAddress: 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3Westmount\, QC H3Z 1X4 \n\n\n\nClosest Metro: Atwater Station \n\n\n\nClosest Bus lines: 24\, 63\, 90\, 104\, 138\, 144\, 150 \n\n\n\nAccessibility:\n\n\n\nThe QWF Office is fully accessible by wheelchair from the side entrance on Tupper Street. Once inside\, there is an elevator to the second floor\, where the QWF office is. \n\n\n\nLearn more about the office location and accessibility.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-in-person-8/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Illuminated Grant-Writing
DESCRIPTION:This series of four workshops will examine how writers with projects for print\, spoken word\, or storytelling can develop a strong literary arts grant application. From drafting a project description to balancing a budget\, we will also discuss artistic risk\, impact\, and cultural appropriation. Focus will be on funding programs at the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA) and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)\, and an arts council program officer will join us to answer questions. This series is information-heavy and intended for Quebec-based writers at all stages of their practice: emerging\, mid-career\, or established. Participants must have an original literary arts project in mind in order to focus their efforts and be prepared to complete tasks between sessions. \n\n\n\nAccess to MS Word or similar writing software will be necessary as well as a willingness to share work\, and give and receive feedback in a workshop setting. \n\n\n\nAs soon as they have registered for the workshop\, participants should email a short\, one-sentence description of their current literary arts project to riley@qwf.org with the subject line “For Tawhida Tanya Evanson.” \n\n\n\nTawhida Tanya Evanson is a poet\, author\, performer and producer. Her poetry collections include Bothism and Nouveau Griot\, and her debut novel Book of Wings won the 2022 CAM/Blue Metropolis New Contribution Prize. Her French autotranslation Livre des ailes (2023) is fresh from Marchand de feuilles. With a twenty-five-year practice in oral poetry and music\, she performs internationally and has released studio albums and short films including the upcoming concert film CYANO SUN SUITE. She is president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation\, director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word Program\, and produces interarts events as Mother Tongue Media. She moonlights as a whirling dervish. www.mothertonguemedia.com
URL:https://qwf.org/event/illuminated-grant-writing-4/2024-02-24/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Naniki by Oonya Kempadoo
DESCRIPTION:February 24\, 2–4 pmLibrairie Paragraphe Bookstore\, Montreal\n\n\n\n𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 and 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 present a book launch for 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒌𝒊 by 𝐎𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐊𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐨. \n\n\n\nJoin us as author 𝐎𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐊𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐨 discusses and signs copies of her latest book 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒌𝒊. \n\n\n\nAdmission is Free. \n\n\n\n𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑:\n\n\n\nOonya Kempadoo is the author of three novels and is critically acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. A creative practitioner with an interest in cross-disciplinary dialogue\, she is a citizen of England\, Guyana\, and Grenada\, and currently lives in Montreal. \n\n\n\n𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊:\n\n\n\nThrough luminescent light\, ancestral paths\, and a Caribbean spirit-inflected world\, Naniki explores the musings and inner workings of the deep blue — the Caribbean Sea — and its shape-shifting sea beings. \n\n\n\nAs the sea mirrors the light from the blue skies\, and its depths are exposed by daggers of sunlight\, so too Naniki reveals and honours the Indigenous roots of the Caribbean and its people\, whose destiny is tied to the sea\, the vessel of collective memory. \n\n\n\nAmana and Skelele are made of water and air\, their essence intertwined with Taino and African ancestry. They evolved as elemental beings of the Anthropocene\, and shape-shifting with their naniki (active spirits) or animal avatars\, they begin an archipelagic journey throughout the Caribbean Basin to see the strange future they dreamed of. Until devastation erupts. \n\n\n\nTasked by their elders to go back in time to the source of the First People’s knowledge\, they must surmount historical and mythological challenges alike. How can they navigate and overcome these obstacles to regenerate themselves\, their love\, their islands\, and their seas?
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-naniki-by-oonya-kempadoo/
LOCATION:Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore\, 2220 McGill College Ave\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 3P9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Book launch of 'Take Out the Jocks: a feminist revenge comedy'
DESCRIPTION:Join Michael Nest for the launch of his new novel ‘Take Out the Jocks: a feminist revenge comedy’\, with Linda Morra\, the host and writer of Getting Lit With Linda. The novel explores what would happen if the people afraid to go out at night were young men\, not young women. It follows Kate\, Carly\, and Seyram\, friends since childhood\, who are outraged by the acquittal of a local rapist and frustrated at the lack of progress with the #MeToo movement in their community. They decide to reverse gender freedoms by targeting the town’s jocks in a series of ever-more brazen attacks. On the case are local police\, who can’t conceive that middle-aged moms could be capable of such things. But also on their tail are the FBI and a local journalist who suspect their involvement. Set against the backdrop of Trump’s America in 2018\, the novel is a dark comedy of female vengeance that blows open literally a small American town. Michael Nest lives in Montreal. His previous book\, Cold Case North: the search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett was shortlisted for Crime Writers of Canada’s Best Nonfiction Crime Book (2021) and won SaskBooks’ Creative Publishing Award (2022).
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-of-take-out-the-jocks-a-feminist-revenge-comedy/
LOCATION:l’Euguélionne Bookstore\, 1426 rue Beaudry\,\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2L 3E5\, Canada
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