Your Chance to Collaborate With Professional Authors
CRY has partnered with Toronto Writers Collective (TWC) to share this incredible opportunity for emerging writers. TWC’s mission is to inspire and empower the unheard through writing and they’ve done just that for a countless number of writers.
Please read below and apply if you’re interested. You DO NOT need to be from Toronto to participate.
Do you have a story to tell? The Toronto Writers Collective is offering the opportunity to celebrate and amplify powerful voices in collaboration with 8 professional authors. Your voice, your stories.
Between July and September, emerging authors will create new works that explore the themes of: Hope, Courage and Survival. Selected pieces will be published in a new Front Lines anthology. Through writing together and listening to others, writers discover and cultivate their voices, inspire others with their stories, and celebrate the diversity within their communities.
The deadline to apply is June 15 at 5 p.m.
More about the Write On! Program
The Toronto Writers Collective has published three anthologies in its Front Lines series. Over 50 emerging authors have been given the opportunity to work with professional authors to develop craft and have their voices heard.
As a Community Arts Development program, Write On! III encourages the artistic development and personal growth of the writer/participants. By working with professional artists, the emerging authors will learn new skills, improve literacy, explore different genres, and have their work published and presented. By creating a community inclusive of race, ethnicity, class, age, gender, sexual orientation, neurodiversity and physical ability, the TWC’s Write On! III Program celebrates creativity, expression, and voice.
The 2021 Write On! III Program will use the TWC method to create new material. The 10-week mentorship will give 6–8 writers in each group the opportunity to develop and hone their writing skills and submit edited material for publication. Applicants will be selected based on their submitted material and included in a group based on their availability to work with the mentors.
Each workshop will be one and a half hours long with additional consultation possible by mutual agreement. The day and time of the workshops may be adjusted based on the mentor’s and participant writers’ availability. Poetry, fiction, biography, memoir and lyrics are genres that have been previously published.
Result of the writing: What to expect
Each emerging author can submit up to six pages of edited material: 1,750 words for fiction, biography, or memoir. A 50-word biography will accompany the finished material. Final editing and assembly will occur during the months of September and October.
