QWF’s Writers in the Community program pairs small groups of young people with a professional writer or literary performance artist who can teach them and, more importantly, motivate them, to use language to express themselves in productive ways. In each project, a writer-facilitator works with a small group for 10 weeks, teaching them language tools, giving them writing prompts, and ultimately, boosting their self-confidence by showing them that they are capable of producing literary work of value.
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Meet the writer-facilitators
Kate Lavut
Kate Lavut writes and draws and puts them together to make comic books. Chico, a finalist for the Quebec Writers Federation Award, is a graphic novel that tells the story of the time Kate dressed as a boy, jumped on a bus and went to Mexico. She is currently working on a new graphic novel about her experience having breast cancer. In 2010, Lavut founded a small publishing house called Paper Dog Press. Over the first covid lockdown, she mentored a grade ten student who realized her dream of writing her first book. Kate loves working with people and getting them to express their best selves. She has recently started teaching comic bookmaking and creative writing classes and will soon add teaching drama to her repertoire.
www.PaperDogPress.com
I particularly liked the fact that we would write a lot and there wasn’t very much theory and
young writerwe would become better by writing every day.
Program sponsors
We would also like to express our gratitude to the following sponsors, without whom the Writers in the Community program would not be possible
