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
Chris Masson
Chris Masson is a poet, performer, and educator currently based in Montreal, where he organizes poetry slams and teaches poetry workshops to youth with the Throw Poetry Collective and the Quebec Writers Federation Writers in the Community program. He has been featured on stages across the continent, and toured his one-man play “Pathos, Punchlines, and Painkillers” to various festivals. His work appears in the love letter anthology Where the Nights Are Twice As Long (Goose Lane 2015).
I feel like writing this poetry really allowed me to look deep into my soul, and find out what kind of person I truely am
young writer
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
