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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Oyster by Marianne Ackerman
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the launch of local author Marianne Ackerman’s latest release\, OYSTER! Join us on Sunday\, February 15th from 4-6 pm EST at Bar le Sparrow! Books will be available for sale and for signing.  \nIn this satirical family drama\, a bestselling author struggles with writer’s block until she reconnects with her ambitious niece at a funeral — perfect for fans of Where’d You Go\, Bernadette. \nOne-time bestselling novelist Amelia Cameron has writer’s block. After her octogenarian father falls off a roof during a windstorm\, his funeral brings the four Cameron siblings together on the family farm\, following years of separation. With the patriarch gone\, familiar relationships begin to crumble. \nWhile the siblings spar\, Amelia’s niece\, Ginny Gupta\, begs her famous aunt for writing advice on her first novel. After a wine-soaked weekend and an innocent bit of typing\, the resulting novel\, The World Is Your Oyster\, brings both women to the brink of scandal with the potential to shake the powerful literary world.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-oyster-by-marianne-ackerman/
LOCATION:BAR LE SPARROW\, 5322 Saint-Laurent\, 5322 Saint-Laurent\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Reading by Ricardo Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 17\, 2026\, 5:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nPlease join us next Tuesday\, Feb 17th at 5:30 pm for a Reading with Professor Ricardo Wilson\, McGill English Department’s Richler Writer-in-Residence for 2025/2026. (Location: Arts Building 160\, 853 Sherbrooke W.) \n\n\n\nRicardo Wilson\, a creative writer and scholar\, is an associate professor of English at Williams College and the founder and executive director of The Outpost Foundation\, a residency and arts advocacy organization for writers of color from the United States and Latin America. He has\, most recently\, extracted from the archive and edited Troubled Lands\, a forthcoming and previously unpublished collection of short fiction from Mexico and Cuba translated by Langston Hughes in 1935 (Princeton University Press) and is the author of An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories (PANK Books) and The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico\, the United States\, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness (Northwestern University Press). He is at work on his forthcoming novel Even Worse than the Nightmare. \n\n\n\nAt next week’s reading (Feb 17)\, Ricardo will share work from An Apparent Horizon (2021)\, as well as from Even Worse than the Nightmare (his forthcoming novel)\, and El Negrero (a forthcoming work of translation). There will be wine and other refreshments! I hope you to see you there and I encourage you to share this event widely. \n\n\n\nRead a recent interview with Ricardo Wilson here. \n\n\n\nMore on the Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence Program: \n\n\n\nSituated in both the Department of English and the Département des littératures de langue française\, de traduction et de création (DLTC) within the Faculty of Arts at McGill\, the Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence Program brings a creative writer to the Department of English for one semester each year. By providing valuable insight into the creative process through events\, student meetings\, and workshops\, the Richler WiR nurtures emerging student talent. Students take in practical and theoretical approaches to writing for such media as television\, film\, radio\, stage\, interactive media and print publications.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/reading-by-ricardo-wilson/
LOCATION:Arts Building 160\, 853 Sherbrooke W.
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, February 20\, 2026\, 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis session is now full. To be put on the waitlist\, please email john@qwf.org. \n\n\n\nIf you registered for the session but can no longer attend\, please email john@qwf.org.
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LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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