The 2026 QWF Literary Awards Finalists
The winners will be revealed at the 2026 QWF Literary Awards Gala on Monday, November 9. Continue reading
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QWF: Writing in the Margins
Get an inside look at the vibrant world of QWF through the voices of Executive Director Lori Schubert and three engaging members.
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The inaugural edition of the National Literary Translation Mentorships is now accepting applications from prospective mentees and mentors. Deadline: November 11, 2026, 5:00 p.m. ET. Continue reading
Five Questions for: Lea Beddia
Lea Beddia is a writer for young adults, a high school English teacher, a storyteller, a mom of three, and QWF’s latest featured member.
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Besides the pleasure of being some use to a fellow writer, I’ve come away from this mentorship having developed new teaching tools and tricks that I’ll be very pleased to employ in my own career.
Raquel Rivera, author of Yippee's Gold Mountain
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Writers in the Community
QWF’s Writers in the Community program pairs small groups of young people with a professional writer or literary performance artist who can teach them and, more important, motivate them, to use language to express themselves in productive ways.
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The QWF Literary Database of Quebec English-language Authors is an ever-expanding online directory of over 2000 books by over 1100 Quebec writers publishing books in English.
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QWF’s online literary journal founded in 2004 by members of a Quebec Writers’ Federation workshop.
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