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
Emily Tristan Jones
Emily Tristan Jones is an alumna of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Banff Centre, and University of Chicago (where she won the new poet prize). She started Hermes Gallery in Nova Scotia and has curated exhibitions for Dalhousie University and other venues. Her first book of poetry will be published by Chicago-based press, Verge. Pieces have been in The Puritan, EcoTheo, Harvard Review, Vallum, Denver Quarterly, Shearsman, and other journals. She lives in Montreal, where she runs Columba Poetry, and is currently writing with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
I feel like the poems helped me get over some hard stuff in my life.
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
