Toronto Street Writers

Toronto Street Writers

06/04/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, two of our participants will be leading one-hour mini workshops on different aspects of writing.

Must pre-register via torontostreetwriters.ca

Toronto Street Writers: Poetry

04/30/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, our coordinator Emily will be leading a workshop on writing poetry.

Toronto Street Writers: Writing Longer Works

04/23/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, our coordinator Emily will be sharing some tips and strategies to manage the process of writing novels and other long-form projects.

Toronto Street Writers: Flying Squad Editing III

04/16/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, we will be doing some intensive group editing.

Toronto Street Writers: Plays

04/09/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, we have special guest Pamela Mordecai leading a workshop on writing plays.

Toronto Street Writers: Participant-Led Workshops

04/02/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, two of our participants will be leading one-hour mini workshops on different aspects of writing.

Toronto Street Writers: Flying Squad Editing II

03/26/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, we will be doing some intensive group editing.

Toronto Street Writers: Comics II

03/19/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, our coordinator Emily will working with the group on comics, continuing off of Claudia Davila's workshop last week.

Toronto Street Writers: Comics I with Claudia Davila

03/12/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, we have special guest Claudia Davila in to work with the group on writing and creating comics.

Toronto Street Writers: Gender

03/05/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, our writer-in-residence Dianah Smith will be leading the group in a workshop about gender issues in writing.

Toronto Street Writers

02/26/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, our writer-in-residence Dianah Smith will be working with the group to prep for a special Street Writers edition of the Art Bar reading series.

Toronto Street Writers: Free-Form Poetry

02/19/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, our coordinator Emily will be leading a workshop on free-form poetry.

Toronto Street Writers: The Personal Essay

02/12/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, our coordinator Emily will be leading a workshop on writing personal essays.

Toronto Street Writers: Flying Squad Editing I

02/05/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, we will be doing some intensive group editing.

Toronto Street Writers: Fiction and Poetry

01/29/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, we have guest author Susan Musgrave (in all the way from Haida Gwaii, BC) leading a workshop on fiction and poetry.

Toronto Street Writers: Screenplays and Scripts

01/22/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, our coordinator Emily will be leading the group on writing screenplays and scripts.

Toronto Street Writers: Found Poetry

01/15/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, our writer-in-residence Dianah Smith will be leading a workshop on found poetry: creating poems from lines collected from other sources.

Toronto Street Writers: Realistic, Unique Characters

01/08/2013 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, we're happy to have guest writer Kristyn Dunnion leading a workshop on creating realistic, unique characters.

Toronto Street Writers -- Characterization

12/18/2012 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, we'll be covering the topic of characterization and trying our hand at creating realistic and believable characters.

Toronto Street Writers -- How to Turn Life into Fiction

12/11/2012 5:30 pm

Toronto Street Writers is a free writing workshop program for 16-29 year olds led by kickass local authors, graphic novelists, hip hop poets, and performers.

This week, our writer-in-residence Dianah Smith will be expanding on her previous workshop to teach us how to turn life into fiction.

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
—Red Queen, Alice in Wonderland

“Be Realistic:
Demand the Impossible"
—political slogan used by
the Situationists in 1968

“Let's set our sights beyond the abominations of today to divine another possible world.”
—Eduardo Galeano

"Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."
- Muhammad Ali