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SUMMARY:Book launch
DESCRIPTION:A book launch of whispers
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-5/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Lisa Richter's Sublunary\, with Gillian Sze\, Misha Solomon and Jessica Bebenek
DESCRIPTION:Join Pulp Books in launching Lisa Richter’s newest poetry collection\, Sublunary on Thursday\, June 4th at 7:00pm! Lisa will be joined by special guests Jessica Bebenek\, Misha Solomon\, and Gillian Sze\, and host James Hawes. This event is supported by the League of Canadian Poets. Free to attend! \nIn Sublunary (University of Alberta Press)\, Lisa Richter explores what it’s like to live “under the moon” in a world that is simultaneously a heartbreak and a total wonder…From Atlantis to Mount Olympus to Christie Pits\, these poems interweave moments of absurdity and awe\, creating a nuanced portrait of what “a reckless intimacy with the world” might look like—for better or worse. Sublunary is a book of elegy\, play\, and rupture that advocates for an ethics of care\, solidarity\, and compassion for our perfectly imperfect selves and each other: a mode of survival that is full-throated and\, at times\, even joyous. \nTo reserve a spot\, please visit the Pulp Books website event page: https://pulpbooks.ca/events/5411620260604
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-lisa-richters-sublunary-with-gillian-sze-misha-solomon-and-jessica-bebenek/
LOCATION:Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe\, 3952 Wellington Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4G1V3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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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 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-virtual-61/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Shut Up & Write!
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SUMMARY:Solace: A Masterclass in Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Atelier ECHEVERRíA in the Laurentides \nMemoir writing can be freeing. It can also leave an author feeling exposed or lost. Join New Quarterly (TNQ) consulting editor Susan Scott to understand how revising your work for publishers can help you find your footing and hone your voice. In this interactive session for writers drawn to nature\, art\, and lively conversation\, we’ll explore thorny craft and submission issues\, including how to work with publishing professionals when it’s your life story that is on the line. \natelier ECHEVERRíA is a bespoke studio-gallery at the foot of a pristine lake in the Laurentides\, 80 minutes north of Montreal. Directions will be sent during registration. \nSusan Scott (susanlscott.ca) is the editor of groundbreaking works in life writing\, including the celebrated Body & Soul. She collaborates globally with artists\, activists\, and scholars from her home in Waterloo\, Ontario\, where she has been editing with the award-winning tnq.ca since 2007. \nPLEASE BRING: A printed 2-page (500-word) excerpt from your work. \nFEE: $85 workshop only | Optional: $285 includes a post-workshop manuscript assessment (max 3\,500 words). Simply use e-transfer to complete your registration. \nCONTACT: Email echeverria.art@gmail.com to register. Reach out to Susan Scott at sscott@tnq.ca for a manuscript evaluation.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/carolina-echeverria/
LOCATION:QC
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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:QC
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Speed-Dating for Children's and YA Authors and Publishers
DESCRIPTION:Writers\, bring your pitch and get ready to present it to two acquiring editors at major children’s and young-adult literature publishing houses. Meet your “date\,” after which you’ll have four minutes to tell them about your book\, ask questions\, and get to know each other. When the bell dings\, move to the next seat and do it again. Whether you find a home for your manuscript or not\, you’ll make a couple of contacts and gather information that will serve you well both now and in the future.  \nWant to perfect your pitch? Need more info about the flow of the event? Read our tip sheet. \nFeaturing: \n\nClarissa Sorgiovanni from CrackBoom! Books (Children’s/YA)\nShelley Tanaka from Groundwood Books (Children’s/YA)\n\nThis event is exclusively for QWF members. Not a member yet? Become one. \nAbout the Publishers\nClarissa Sorgiovanni is a senior editor and writer at the Canadian publishing company PAPP International with over eight years of experience in print and digital publishing. She specializes in creating engaging\, thoughtful books for readers of all ages\, with a particular focus on children’s educational content and storybooks. \n\n \n\nShelley Tanaka is an editor\, writer\, teacher\, and translator of works for young readers. She is the long-time fiction editor at Groundwood Books and has edited more than a dozen Governor General’s Award–winning titles. She is faculty emerita in the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts\, where she has mentored more than a hundred graduate students. She also teaches at Whale Rock Workshops. Shelley lives in Kingston\, Ontario. \n\n \n\nAccessibility\nThe Centre Sanaaq is accessible to all. People who use paratransit should ask to be dropped off at the bottom of the outdoor access ramp\, at the southeast corner of Place Henri-Dunant\, in front of the main entrance of the centre. More information. \nRegister\nThis event is exclusively for QWF members and has a maximum capacity of 22 participants. Registration will be accepted on a first-come\, first served basis \nUse the RSVP form below to register for the event.  \nRegistration will open on Friday\, May 22\, 8:00 a.m. ET\, and will close on Wednesday\, June 3\, 5:00 p.m. ET.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/speed-dating-for-childrens-authors-and-publishers/
LOCATION:Centre Sanaaq\, 1200 Rue du Sussex\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3H 0E3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Member Meetup
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