Spoken Word Café dazzles with diverse readings and dance by Janet Creery Readers from all eight Ottawa-based WCC workshops celebrated their work in a virtual Spoken Word Café on September 21, which included 50 attendees and a dance performance.  Westwind Evening, who is…

by Steve Elliot Big things are happening in Mississauga, or should I say Peel? That’s the first bit of news to share, since we have workshops taking place in Brampton and Mississauga, we felt that a name change was in order. We will now be…

by Basil Chui One of Toronto Writers Collective’s partners, Mood Disorders Ottawa, or MDO, held a recital in late March, allowing its writers to share their stories and talents with the group’s wider membership. Twelve participants from around Ontario shared their writing to…

By Maria Sabourin-Jovel I am from where the sun shines bright and high most of the year. I am from where there is no snow and being freezing cold means a temperature of 15 degrees. I am from where beaches go forever with…

Our very own Janet Creery spoke to Apt613 about our Ottawa chapter and the power of writing together. “To me, a process where you are experiencing the deep humanity of others in a really protected space,” she told them, “where everyone is valued,…

Co-Executive Director of the TWC Shelley Lepp writes about her experience balancing work, parenting and other anomalies of life over the past year in the April edition of The Bridge.