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[roomwiththewind]

Four years of telling stories

I've been telling stories for FOUR YEARS WOW! and now I'm ready to help you tell yours

It has been nearly four years since I attended my very first storytelling workshop, something I signed up for on a whim without fully understanding what I was getting into. I was working on a novel, the Quebec Writers’ Federation workshops had opened for fall registration, and the theme fit my work; though my book was not a memoir, there was a great deal of truth going into it. The first word I…

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[faehrys]

pissbabytwt my beloved

[faehrys]

i need quackity to stream with dream and make him laugh for at least two hours straight

[roomwiththewind]

A walk in the park

A walk in the park: my first public reading, in front of an audience, yet also in my bedroom.

The QWF mentorship has been split in two for me from the beginning, and I don’t mean in the universal sense of Before Coronavirus and After. When April and I first met, we set a goal of pitching my novel for publication, and that deadline fell neatly in the middle of our time together. A synopsis, a cover letter, and the first three chapters were all I had to convince someone to publish my book.

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[gregsantospoet]

It’s been challenging to get any poetry writing done these days so thank you to @officialqwf’s QWF Writes for the opportunity share my thoughts on being a homeschooling parent and a writer during this global pandemic. Please feel free to share and let me know how you are all doing with homeschooling and/or writing in this really strange time. Thanks for reading. Read my entire article at the following link or temporarily in my bio: (https://qwfwrites.wordpress.com/2020/05/11/homeschooling-in-a-pandemic-by-greg-santos/) . . . #gregsantos #qwfwrites #qwf #quebecwritersfederation #homeschooling #homeschool #covid #covid19 #coronavirus #montrealwriter #montrealpoet #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity (at Montreal, Quebec) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAFyZwhgzOb/?igshid=1sn5gbw0j6u06

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Distance

Distance: how I've managed to keep going with the constant background stress of a global pandemic sapping most of my energy.

Is anyone else feeling very Lady of Shalott these days? Locked in a tower, cursed to see the real world only through a magic mirror? I appreciate that it’s for our collective safety, and I feel fortunate to be in a position where I can stay home. Still, it’s fair to be half sick of shadows.

Luckily, it has never been easier to reach out to people I care about. That is, when I have the energy to…

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Is it always transitions?

Is it always transitions?

I had such good momentum, but autumn turned to winter and a lot of shifting took place.

First of all, I will remind myself to never underestimate the effect of darkness suddenly coming an hour earlier. I feel more pressure to use the daylight to best effect, I get mopey when I haven’t seen a blue sky in too long, and the cold can be a huge deterrent when it comes to enjoying being outside.

There…

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[gregsantospoet]

MENTORSHIP OPPORTUNITY! Have you applied to be a guest co-poetry editor for carte blanche yet? The deadline to apply is November 5, 2019! Consider applying to this “Fresh Pages” mentorship program. It’s a pilot project collaboration between the Quebec Writers’ Federation (@officialqwf) and carte blanche magazine (@alacarteblanchemtl) designed to help an aspiring writer/editor who is Indigenous, Black, or a person of colour. The successful mentee candidate will help co-edit the Winter 2020 poetry section of carte blanche with mentor, Marcela Huerta (@marsmella), carte blanche’s poetry editor. Visit the following link (https://qwf.org/activities/programs/fresh-pages/guest-editorship-for-underrepresented-writers/) or the QWF website to learn more about this Editorial Mentorship initiative. Thank you and please spread the word! . . . #qwf #quebecwritersfederation #carteblanchemagazine #poetry #editor #mentor #mentorship #bipoc #mentorshipprogram #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity (at Quebec Writers' Federation) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3reKCBg56Y/?igshid=1irhl4zd18c0v