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
Rachel McCrum
Rachel McCrum is a poet, performer, editor, and curator. Originally from Northern Ireland, she lived in Edinburgh, Scotland between 2010 and 2016, where she was the first BBC Scotland Poet in Residence and recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. Her debut collection The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate was translated by Jonathan Lamy and published in a bilingual edition with Mémoire d’encrier in Fall 2020 and was a finalist for the Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole from the Quebec Writers’ Federation in 2022. She has taught workshops on poetry and performance in Scotland, Ireland, England, South Africa, Greece, Haiti and Canada. Her new show La Belle-mère//The Stepmother, co-written with Amélie Prévost, will premiere in Montreal in September 2024. Rachel is the vocalist for noise-poetry group Pigs&Wolves.
For more information: https://rachelmccrumpoetperformer.wordpress.com/
Through the various activities, I realized that within me there was a poet that I did not know existed. I now have a great appreciation for poetry.
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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
