REMI VILLEMURE
Rémi Villemure is a columnist at QUB Radio and contributor to Companies on the airwaves of Radio VM. Sensitive to issues surrounding Quebec identity and the French language, he contributed to the script-editing of the play To great evils, great speeches currently on tour throughout Quebec.
He is also the young author behind The tales of Hochelag. Recorded and published in audio form between 2019 and 2020, borrowed from the balconies, alleys and clotheslines of the Hochelaga district, the tales have been listened to nearly 150,000 times to date.
Recipient of the Louise-Spickler scholarship in 2019, elected to the preliminary list for the Radio-Canada Poetry Prize in 2020, Rémi Villemure also offered the podcast A street in your ears available on all platforms and had fifteen of his poems published on the sidewalks and windows of rue Saint-Denis in September 2021.
'' The Tales of Hochelag ''
Born of a difficult writing challenge, les Contes d’Hochelag are 17 relatively short stories written, recorded and edited in some 25 weeks. First broadcast on Facebook, they have been viewed nearly 150,000 times and are now available on all streaming platforms.
Download or listen to "les Contes d’Hochelag":
Read his articles: Press | Montreal Journal | Metro Newspaper
- Louise-Spickler Excellence Scholarship, Fondation de l’INIS (September 2019):
The excellence scholarships are awarded to students who have shown themselves to be outstanding throughout their studies. - Shortlist for the Prix Jeune Écrivain 2020:
The story submitted, “Le château de canettes” is one of the 30 stories shortlisted for the prize out of the 539 stories initially submitted.