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.
Recent projects
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Meet the writer-facilitators
Tawhida Tanya Evanson
Tawhida Tanya Evanson is a poet, novelist, scriptwriter, artist and Ashiq known for her innovative work blending poetry, orality, music and multimedia. A graduate of Concordia University Creative Writing born and based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, she performs and teaches internationally, has produced five audio recordings, six short films and the 2023 award-winning Afrofuturist concert film CYANO SUN SUITE. Evanson has two published poetry collections, and her debut novel Book of Wings won the 2022 CAM/Blue Metropolis New Contribution Prize. Her French autotranslation Livre des ailes was published in 2023. She was 2025 Poet Ambassador in Residence at the League of Canadian Poets, a past president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation and moonlights as a whirling dervish.
It made me feel good about myself. I like writing but I never thought I could.
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
