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
Moe Clark
Métis/mixed-settler multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark is a 2Spirit singing thunderbird. She works across disciplines of vocal improvisation, spoken word, sound design, and performance creation, to create work that centres embodied knowledge, 2Spirit Indigenous resurgence, and creative kinship. Originally from Treaty 7, Moe has resided as a guest in Tio’tiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal for more than a decade. Moe has performed the world over, including the Sydney Opera House (AU), UBUD Writers & Readers Festival (ID) and Origins Festival in London (UK). Moe has seven albums of music, both solo and collaborative and multiple performance videos. Her last solo album Within toured across North America and her collaborative video poem “nitahkôtân” won best Indigenous language music video at the ImagiNative film festival. In 2013 she directed the 10th Annual Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, highlighting Indigenous Languages, and was named Poet of Honour at the same festival in 2014. As a composer, Moe’s music and voice have appeared in film, theatre and dance performances alike, including Imago Theatre’s The Flood (2024), Ce Silence qui Tue (Kim O’Bomsawin, 2018), and Winnie Ho’s aWokening (2022). She is co-founder of Weather Beings, a 2Spirit performance collective with Mâori interdisciplinary artist Victoria Hunt (AU).
I learned tons of new ways to write poems and different ways to express how I was feeling or what my thoughts were through words rather than being on the streets getting into fights.
young author
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
