How to Tell Your Story

Name: How to Tell Your Story
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In this workshop we’ll focus on transforming the personal into something that reaches beyond

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Each of us has a story to tell. We all have memories. But how do you take what you’ve experienced and turn it into something more than a conversation in a bar?

How do you find the weight that is in each of our lives and stories?In this workshop we’ll focus on transforming the personal into something that reaches beyond.Here’s a loose outline of how we’ll approach it.

QWF provides English-language programs, services, opportunities, and community for aspiring, emerging, and established writers and the wider community. Our goals are to…

Provide professional development, support, community, and employment opportunities to Quebec-based English-language writers at appropriate stages of their careers;
Raise the profile of QWF members who are emerging or established writers through annual literary awards, a writing residency, two online publications, and a travel fund;
Increase access to literary activities for underserved communities through our Writers in the Community program;
Increase public interaction with the literary arts through public readings, literary dinners and teas, and an annual holiday book fair (in partnership with the AELAQ);
Facilitate contact between qualified writers and members of the community through our online Hire-a-Writer directory;
Encourage dialogue and collaboration between Quebec’s English- and French-speaking literary communities;
Create mutually supportive partnerships with literary presenters across the province and with other national, provincial and municipal arts organizations.
Communicate with all levels of government on behalf of our constituency.

Our Legal Mandate

The Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) is a provincially incorporated non-profit organization and a Canadian registered charity (14****** RR 0001). Our official purposes, as registered with the Charities Directorate, are:
To provide tangible community support for the promotion and encouragement of English language literary arts within the province;
To recognize the achievements of Quebec’s English language writers through the establishment of annual literary awards;
To undertake activities which will increase public awareness of the literary arts and of literary institutions within the province;
To apply for, raise and receive grants, bequests, legacies and devices and to hold, administer, invest, expand or deal with the same in furtherance with the purposes of the Society.