Writers in the Community

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The Centre for Literacy, in collaboration with the Quebec Writers’ Federation, offers and tracks the outcomes of writing workshops for Montreal adolescents and young adults excluded from the mainstream.

Several “zines” by young writers have been produced this year, the most recent by a group of single mothers in a local transition home. Another is a recent launch of a collection of poems by young writers from Mountainview, an alternative school in the youth protection system.

Kadeem, one of the young writers, was honoured by the Montreal Review of Books selecting his poem ("If You Have …") for publication. See http://www.qwf.org/programs/pdf/wic_magnetic-poets.pdf for Kadeem’s poem and other young writers’ work.

Partners in the program have included Jeunesse 2000, Head & Hands, Mountainview High School, Batshaw Youth and Family Services, Leave Out ViolencE, Tyndale St-Georges Community Centre, the Jewish General Hospital, and VOYCE (Voices of Youth in Care).

This photo was taken at a Writers in the Community workshop led by Montreal poet Larissa Andruyshyn:

Poet Larissa Andrusyshyn works with a Mountainview School student.

Dave Sidaway, The Gazette (Montreal) © 2009.

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