Writers in the Community

Writers in the Community, which the QWF runs in collaboration with the Centre for Literacy of Quebec, brings the literary arts to young people who are left out of the artistic mainstream. Past and present partners include Mountainview High School, Jeunesse 2000, Head & Hands, Batshaw Youth and Family Services, Leave Out ViolencE, Tyndale St-Georges Community Centre, the Jewish General Hospital, and VOYCE (Voices Of Youth in Care).

MEDIA: Montreal Gazette article, May 2009

The zines below were created in 2009 and 2010 by young writers participating in the Writers in the Community program under the guidance of Larissa Andrusyshyn. To read the zines, click on the cover pages. At the request of the organization with which we collaborated, we are using only the first names of the poets.

    zine cover - magnetic poets zine cover - freedom writers zine cover - sheena
    zine cover - mikhail zine cover - jahlyssa zine cover - poet revolutionaries

The following poems were written by young writers participating in previous workshops within the program.

View the video “Street Story,” with music, words, and performances by participants in the 2007 Writers in the Community program, under the guidance of Manchilde (Osei Alleyne). Video production by LabNoise Productions.

We acknowledge the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and English Language Arts - Program Branch - DGFJ, MELS.

Canada Council for the Arts / Conseil des Arts du Canada