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The 2024 QWF Literary Awards are now open to submissions. New this year: Submissions to be completed via Submittable. Deadline for book prizes: June 3, 2024. Deadline for the Spoken Word Prize: July 2, 2024. Continue reading
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Learn moreThe 2024 Max Margles Writing Residency in Ireland is now open to applications. Deadline to apply: April 22, 2024. Continue reading
Derek Webster is a poet, editor, and QWF’s latest featured member. Derek’s new collection of poems, National Animal, is published by Signal Editions. Mockingbird (2015) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poems in Canada. He received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied with Carl Phillips, and was the founding editor of Maisonneuve magazine. He lives in Montreal and Toronto.
learn MoreI have received way more than I expected from this mentorship. It’s been an absolute pleasure working with Tara and I feel like I have grown as a writer in the last few months because of her. More importantly, I have gained a friend who is supportive.
Chanel M. Sutherland, 2022 Mairuth Sarsfield Mentee
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.
Learn moreThe 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.
Learn moreQWF’s online literary journal founded in 2004 by members of a Quebec Writers’ Federation workshop.
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