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
Annabel Howard
Originally from the UK, Annabel Howard is an author of creative nonfiction. She has been a guest in Tio’tiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal for four years. She has published three books, translated into eleven languages, and her essays, poems, and prose-poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Best Canadian Essays, The White Review, The Puritan, Demeter Press, and Emergence Magazine. Besides writing, Annabel has twenty years experience as a teacher, facilitator, and mentor who’s worked with children, high school students, undergraduates, and adults in art galleries, museums, classrooms, and outdoors.
I can’t imagine a greater example of success than when during our launch one student, almost thinking aloud, asked me how he could continue to write and publish his work while he was in trade school next year. He is interested in writing and wants to continue to pursue it; he clearly is benefitting and getting the most out of these workshops. He even read a poem in front of the school during their annual Christmas party. If a student makes the choice to continue his education that is success.
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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
