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
Raquel Rivera
Raquel Rivera is a writer, performer, and author of books for children and young adults. She is based in Montreal since 1999. Prior to this Raquel has lived and worked in Washington DC, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Barcelona, and Toronto, where she was born and raised. Her travel experiences and mixed heritage have led her to write on themes such as opposing viewpoints, cultures in conflict and cooperation. More recently Raquel been researching present-day thinking on—and actions for—global sustainability. With more than 20 years’ writing experience in literary and commercial genres, working in different cultures around the world, Raquel takes great pleasure in sharing knowledge with fellow- writers, working with children, youth and adults in creative collaborations of all kinds. For these collaborations, she also draws on her background in visual art and visual literacy, as well as her practice in movement, rhythm and performance.
The girls were phenomenal. Workshops were last period of the day but from the second one they were “into it” and brought/wrote lots of poetry.
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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
