The Quebec Writers’ Federation is delighted to announce that the 2025 Max Margles Writer in Residence is H Felix Chau Bradley!
Felix will spend three weeks at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan, Ireland, in October 2025 as the fourth Max Margles Writer in Residence. Previous winners were Aimee Wall (2024), Heather O’Neill (2023), and Tracey Waddleton (2022).
Established in 1981, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre is Ireland’s foremost artistic residency centre. Located on the shores of Lake Annaghmakerrig in the quiet countryside of County Monaghan, the centre offers a flourishing creative environment, with studios, performance spaces, and more. The Annaghmakerrig House, or “Big House,” has eleven private bedrooms and offers residencies to international artists in all disciplines, from literature and dance to music and theatre.
I am thrilled to have been chosen for this year’s Max Margles Writing Residency! For a couple of years now, I have been dreaming of that thing writers long for: uninterrupted time in which to work on a book, somewhere outside of my usual environment. At the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, I will begin work on a second draft of my first novel, Lazy Tongue, which is about heritage language learning, familial estrangement, ghosts, and messy they/thems.
H Felix Chau Bradley, 2025 Max Margles Writer in Residence
H Felix Chau Bradley is a writer and editor living in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). They are the author of Personal Attention Roleplay (Metonymy Press, 2021), which was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Kobo Rakuten Emerging Writer Prize. Their writing can be found in carte blanche, ESPACE art actuel, The Ex-Puritan, Feeld magazine, Maisonneuve, The Malahat Review, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. They are the fiction editor at This Magazine and a book columnist at Xtra. They are currently writing a novel.
The finalists for this year’s residency were:
- Susan Doherty
- Suzanne Keeptwo
- Yusuf Saadi
50 writers applied for the 2025 Residency. The jurors were Jan Carson, Hasan Namir, and Aimee Wall, the 2024 Max Margles Writer in Residence.
The Max Margles Writing Residency is made possible with the support of Roslyn Margles in memory of her husband Max. The project keeps Max’s memory alive, provides an opportunity for Quebec writers to spend meaningful time in a space in which they can contemplate and create, and supports a significant new contribution to English-language culture in Quebec.