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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Free\, open to QWF members \nRegister for the session by filling out the RSVP form below. \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-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\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. You will receive the Zoom link a few days before the session. \n\n\n\nNote: RSVPs for virtual Shut Up & Write! sessions close 24 hours before the session begins. If there is no option to RSVP\, RSVPs are closed. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you are registered but can no longer attend\, please email john@qwf.org. \n\n\n\n 
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LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Shut Up & Write!
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SUMMARY:Borderlands: A QWF Springtime Writing Workshop in the Eastern Townships
DESCRIPTION:Borderlands are in-between places\, neither here nor there\, yet shot through with newness\, variability\, and change. Borders can be physical or spiritual. They can feel exciting or uncomfortable. They hold an element of uncertainty. \n\n\n\nThis writing workshop takes place over two three-hour Saturday sessions in Sutton\, Quebec. Sutton is a few minutes from the US border\, whose troubled or untroubled status has known eras filled with bloodshed\, sorrow\, and filial love and has experienced complex tensions today. Those of us who once crossed that border for an ice cream cone and a joyful waterfall swim may have a very different relationship with it now. \n\n\n\nSimilarly\, our own interior border crossings are fertile with meaning: perhaps you are navigating a border between youth and age\, or between health and frailty. Maybe you are in a process of losing or seeking something that profoundly affects how you are positioned in the world. Or maybe the past and the future have begun to feel intertwined instead of delineated\, thus altering time itself. \n\n\n\nThis writing workshop will give you space and time to think and write about borderlands—interior or exterior—in your current experience. We will use conversation\, art supplies\, writing prompts\, and writing materials to compose fluid-genre writing that helps us inhabit the uncertainty of the in-between places in our lives\, with curiosity and hope rather than resistance or fear. Please bring coloured pens or pencils and something on which to write\, such as paper or a notebook. \n\n\n\nOnce you have registered\, please send a brief description of no more than 250 words of a place you know or remember—a place that makes you feel something—to riley@qwf.org. The subject line should read “For Kathleen Winter.” \n\n\n\nKathleen Winter writes novels\, short stories\, memoir\, and essays. These include the novel\, Annabel\, and the Arctic memoir\, Boundless (Anansi)\, both of which won or were shortlisted for multiple Canadian and international awards. Her latest novel\, Undersong (Knopf Canada)\, is inspired by Dorothy Wordsworth’s late unpublished diaries. She is currently working on a book of poetry about a local mountain and its non-human voices. Winter was born in the U.K.\, grew up in Newfoundland\, and in 2010 moved with her family to Montreal. For the past five years she has lived in Sutton\, in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/borderlands-a-qwf-springtime-writing-workshop-in-the-eastern-townships/2026-06-06/
LOCATION:Quebec
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