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
Kate Lavut
Kate Lavut is an award-winning playwright, whose first play A Little Bit Pregnant won best drama at the New York City Fringe Festival. She is also a comic book creator, who wrote and illustrated ‘Chico’, about that time she dressed as a boy, jumped on the bus, and went to Mexico. Lavut was born in Toronto but doesn’t admit that to people, now that she resides in Montreal. A natural teacher, Kate has been said to do therapy with her students as well as creative writing. Kate Lavut is currently at work on her new play Dating My Mother.
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There is no organization more worthy of support than the QWF. You made a huge difference in my school … Keep up your worthy mission to help our youth find the means to express themselves. It makes all the difference.
Danny Olivenstein, former teacher at Mountainview School
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
