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Write Now! Creative Writers Speaker Series featuring Qurat Dar
Everyone is invited to hear some of Canada’s best established and emerging writers read from their work and discuss their craft.
Presented by Writing 2520A: Write Now! Writers on Writing, the Department of English and Writing Studies, and the Creative Writers Speaker Series at Western.
Qurat Dar is the author of Non-Prophet (Icehouse Poetry 2025), winner of the inaugural Claire Harris Poetry Prize. The collection was also a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Qurat was the City of Mississauga’s third Youth Poet Laureate and a Canadian Individual Poetry Slam National Champion. Her poems have appeared in EVENT, Arc Poetry Magazine, Room Magazine, and across the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) network, among other places.