Contact details:
Website address: torontowriterscollective.ca
Email address for general inquiries: info@torontowriterscollective.ca
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Toronto-Writers-Collective-755570877856302/
Goals/Mission:
- Offers free writing workshops in partnership with other organizations or agencies
- Official mission statement: “inspire and empower the unheard through writing”
- Through writing, “encourage voice, connect people, and promote individual and community well-being”
- Founded on the idea that “everyone is a writer”
- Seek to foster creativity, critical thinking, and literary skill towards improving self-esteem
- Focus on “the homeless, the LGBTQ community, women at risk and Aboriginal communities”
Notable past and current activities:
- Currently 14 writing workshops around Toronto; described as “prompted writing parties”
- Partnered with wide range of organizations/agencies: e.g., CAMH, LOFT, Anishinaabe Health, Renascent House, the 519, PWA
- Publishing of Front Lines anthology
- 2016 presenter of Words From The Street
Ways in which people can get involved:
- Donate
- Purchase Front Lines
- Join a workshop as a writer or as facilitator
- “Like” them on Facebook