Toronto Street Writers

Are you 18-29 years old? Do you keep a blog or journal? Constantly update your Facebook page? Write super-long e-mails? Make up stories, films, rants, video game ideas, lyrics and/or poems in your head? Love to read and talk about books?

Why not join the…

Toronto Street Writers!

What will we do?
• Write about real life
• Produce song lyrics and poems
• Create our own comics
• Read/write film scripts
• Find and make art
• Publish your work
• Get advice from professionals
• Choose other kinds of writing

DATES/TIMES
Academy of the Impossible
231 Wallace Avenue, Toronto, ON
Tuesdays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

FINE PRINT
Participants must be 16-29 years old. Workshops are free, but please register! All supplies and snacks are provided for participants. TTC tickets available for people coming from outside the neighborhood.

TO REGISTER
Send a message to info(at)parkdalewriters.ca or call 416-779-1448.

Coordinator:
Emily Pohl-Weary: Award-winning Toronto author Emily Pohl-Weary’s most recent novel is Strange Times at Western High, featuring teen sleuth Natalie Fuentes, who teams up with a computer hacker and a graffiti artist to solve a mystery at her west-end Toronto high school. Her previous books include a collection of poetry, Iron-on Constellations, and a novel, A Girl Like Sugar (optioned for film and television by Spruce Street Films). She edited the acclaimed anthology Girls Who Bite Back: Witches Mutants, Slayers and Freaks, and completed her sci-fi writing grandmother’s biography, Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril. BtHL won a Hugo Award and was the finalist for the Toronto Book Award. Pohl-Weary published Kiss Machine magazine for more than nine years and writes a girl pirate comic (illustrated by Willow Dawson). She has mentored young people, been a writer-in-residence at a high school, run writing workshops for people of all ages, and done readings across North America.

Youth Coordinators:
Addi "Mindbender" Stewart
Dizia Raposo-Ferreira

Writer-in-Residence
Dianah Smith

Guest Authors
This year, participants will be working with:

• Sound artists and performers Rose and Nic from LAL
• Novelist Martin Mordecai
• Science fiction and young adult author Kristyn Dunnion
• Playwright Jean Yoon
• Graphic novelist Willow Dawson
• And many more!