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SUMMARY:2024 QWF Mentorship Reading
DESCRIPTION:June 9\, 2024\, 2:00–4:00 pm ETBar La Marche à côté (5043 Saint-Denis St.\, Montreal)$10 ($5 for QWF members and students)Buy tickets on Eventbrite (or at the door)\n\n\n\nJoin us for the 2024 QWF Mentorship Reading! \n\n\n\nFor four months\, seven emerging writers have worked to hone their craft through the QWF Mentorship Program. Each has received one-on-one guidance from a professional writing mentor to help them transition to the next stage of their careers. Now\, their journey culminates in a public reading where each mentee will present an excerpt from their work in progress. \n\n\n\nThis year’s cohort features: \n\n\n\nRaphaëlle Aubin\, mentored by Su J. Sokol in FictionRiver Lee\, mentored by Chris DiRaddo in FictionMegan Hunt\, mentored by Alexandria Haber in PlaywritingEmily Gaudet\, mentored by Sarah Wolfson in PoetrySantiago Eastman Herrera\, mentored by Raquel Rivera in Young Adult Literature (Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship)Robin Macdonald\, mentored by Elise Moser in Non-FictionEmira Tufo\, mentored by Daniel Allen Cox in Non-Fiction* \n\n\n\n*Emira will not be able to join but has arranged for a friend to read her work on her behalf. \n\n\n\nBuy your tickets now on Eventbrite. Tickets will also be available at the door by cash or e-transfer. \n\n\n\nOpen to the public\, so invite your friends and family! \n\n\n\nAbout the QWF Mentorship Program\n\n\n\nThe QWF Mentorships are designed to help promising emerging writers make the transition to the next stage of their careers. Over a period of four months\, each mentee received one-on-one guidance and support from a professional writing mentor. Now\, their journey culminates in a public reading where the mentees present an excerpt of their works-in-progress. Learn more about the QWF Mentorship Program.  \n\n\n\nAccessibility: The venue is situated on ground level with one step leading to the entrance. Should you require a ramp for accessibility\, kindly notify us at least a few days prior to the event and we will arrange for one. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuy Tickets\n\n\n\nShare on Facebook
URL:https://qwf.org/event/2024-qwf-mentorship-reading/
LOCATION:Bar La Marche à Côté\, 5043 Saint Denis St\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2J 2L8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Launch - Dear Haider by Lili Zeng
DESCRIPTION:Robin Philpot\, publisher of Baraka Books\, and Librairie n’était-ce pas l’été invite you to the launch of: \nDEAR HAIDER\nBY\nLILI ZENG \n“Lili Zeng’s slow-burn account of Liz’s summer student internship lays the foundation for a rollercoaster ride filled with often unexpected life adventures as Liz steps into a new chapter of her life. Zeng’s awe-inspiring debut novel is a fearless and courageous narrative of first love\, loss\, despair\, and ultimately of hope and healing. Truly\, a testament to the resilience and enduring faith of the human spirit!”\n— Mary Anne Levasseur\, caregiver and youth mental health advocate \nThe launch will be livestreamed. Write to info@barakabooks.com for the link.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/launch-dear-haider-by-lili-zeng/
LOCATION:Librairie n’était-ce pas l’été\, 6792 St Laurent\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Writing While Disabled: Making Spaces For Ourselves and Our Characters
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, June 13\, 2024\, 7:00–9:00 PMArgo Bookshop\n\n\n\nPlease join us as three disabled writers—Cait Gordon\, Jason M. Harley\, and Madona Skaff-Koren—converse about their process\, their protagonists\, their world-building\, and how they make spaces both for their characters and themselves as creatives. Moderated by Su J Sokol\, the discussion will be followed by a Q&A period and an opportunity to obtain signed copies of the authors’ works. \n\n\n\nThis event will take place in store at Argo Bookshop\, which can be accessed by elevator. Masks are required. The event is free\, but space is limited\, so please RSVP on TicketSource. \n\n\n\nAbout the Guests\n\n\n\nCait Gordon is an autistic\, disabled\, and queer Canadian writer of speculative fiction that celebrates diversity. She is the author of the award-nominated\, disability-hopepunk adventure\, Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! Her short stories featuring disabled and/or neurodivergent heroes appear in Spring into SciFi (2024)\, We Shall Be Monsters\, Mighty: An Anthology of Disabled Superheroes\, There’s No Place\, and Stargazers: Microtales from the Cosmos. She has had poems published in Polar Borealis and Mollyhouse. Cait also twice joined Talia C. Johnson to co-edit the (award-nominated) Nothing Without Us and (award-winning) Nothing Without Us Too disability fiction anthologies. \n\n\n\nJason M. Harley is a queer\, non-binary McGill University professor in the Faculty of Medicine and a Scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. Their comic book\, Fake News and Dinosaurs\, co-created with their husband and visual artist\, Daniel Beaudin\, has been featured on Global News TV and the Toronto Star. Their fiction is forthcoming from Baffling Magazine and has appeared in Tesseracts\, Polar Borealis and elsewhere. They have served on panels for Chicon (WorldCon)\, World Fantasy\, and Can-Con science fiction and fantasy conventions and are a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFFWA; Associate Member) and the Quebec Writers’ Federation. \n\n\n\nMadona Skaff-Koren is the author of the Naya Investigates series\, about a young woman disabled by multiple sclerosis\, who turns sleuth to solve crimes. The character was inspired by her own MS diagnosis. The series so far includes Journey of a Thousand Steps (2015)\, and Death by Association (2020). Her stand alone novel\, Shifting Trust (2021) is a science fiction thriller set twenty-five years into the future. She has several SF and mystery short stories appearing in various anthologies. Her essay on “Number One from Star Trek” is in the anthology\, Women on Women in Trek (2024). \n\n\n\nSu J Sokol (moderator) is a social rights activist and a writer of speculative and interstitial fiction. A former legal services lawyer from New York City\, xe now makes Montréal xyr home. Sokol is the author of three novels: Cycling to Asylum (2014)\, which was long-listed for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic\, Run J Run (2019)\, and Zee (2020)\, a finalist for the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Sokol’s short fiction and essays have appeared in various magazines and anthologies When xe is not writing\, battling slumlords\, bringing evil bureaucracies to their knees\, and smashing borders\, Sokol curates and participates in readings and literary events in Canada and abroad. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP on FAcebook
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LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, June 14\, 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.
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LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Land-Based Writing and Creative Writing Pedagogy
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, June 14\, 2024\, 2:00-3:30 pm ETLB 646 (Webster Library)\, Concordia University\n\n\n\nCome to an Un-Conference Panel! \n\n\n\nWith Catherine Bush\, Kit Dobson\, and Julija Šukys. \n\n\n\nThis three-person panel/discussion will highlight insights and strategies from our explorations in land-based writing and teaching\, using techniques including those of mapping\, and sensory exploration\, and outdoor learning. As writers\, we endeavour to respond meaningfully to the climate and ecological crises\, both in our work and in the classroom\, and to move beyond the framing of dystopic narratives. We have also begun to teach creative writing in new ways.  \n\n\n\nParticipants: \n\n\n\n“Writing the Sensory.” Catherine Bush is the author of five novels\, including the climate-themed novel Blaze Island (2020) and the forthcoming story collection Skin (2025). Currently the Writer-in-Residence Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Germany\, she is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Guelph.  \n\n\n\n“Between Fiction and Non: Literary Approaches to Land.” Kit Dobson is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. His previous book\, Field Notes on Listening\, was one of the CBC’s top nonfiction books of 2022\, and he has just published his first novel\, We Are Already Ghosts.  \n\n\n\n“Flipping the Map: Lessons in Place-Writing.” Julija Šukys is the author of three books (Silence is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout\, Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė\, and Siberian Exile: Blood\, War\, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning). Her current book project is called Stone\, Paper\, Petal: In the Campus Shooting Archives. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.
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SUMMARY:El Ghourabaa Launch
DESCRIPTION:El Ghourabaa\, an Arab queer and trans anthology edited by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and Samia Marshy\, is being launched on June 15th @ 6:30PM at Brique par Brique in Park-Ex! Seven of our contributors will be reading excerpts of their pieces. There will be music\, book signings\, and free food & drinks! The event is free to attend\, but we will be collecting donations for a fundraiser to support a Palestinian trans woman in crisis. More information on this fundraiser can be found in the “event website” section of this posting.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/el-ghourabaa-launch/
LOCATION:Brique par Brique\, 633 av. beaumont\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3N 1V7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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