In April 2020, we invited writers in Quebec to submit a story of a single day during the strange, uneasy time of coronavirus and pandemic, of social distancing and self isolation, of lockdown and quarantine.
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“We’re thinking of moving to the country,” I told mystery writer Louise Penny when I bumped into her at the Knowlton Literary Festival in 2010, adding that my husband and I weren’t sure if it was the right thing for our writing careers. Penny was enthusiastic: “Do it,” she said, “while you can!” A few months later, we bought a 200-year-old farmhouse in the tiny hamlet of Hatley.
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QWF Writes 
Great article, Angela! As a fellow Eastern Townships resident, I can totally relate. 🙂
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A breath of fresh air, Angela. Thank you! As a former Montrealer and a frequenter of some of the writing groups you mention, and others you don’t, I can attest to the vibrance of the Townships writing and artistic scene. I have lived 25 years in “the forgotten Townships” – even further east than your garden of Hatley – and I consider it a precious secret that living close to nature and less frenetically nurtures creativity in surprising ways.
Thoreau wrote, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
To live deliberately…
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