May 17, 2025
Leah Duarte is a finalist for the 2025 Mississauga Arts Awards in the Emerging Literary Arts category!
Congratulations Leah!
March 3, 2025
A huge thanks to Tali Voron-Leiderman who delivered the keynote speech during the virtual launch of the Forest Floor anthology. Read what she had to say about the importance of storytelling and building community to tell our stories.
January 16, 2025
A huge thanks to everyone who attended our anthology launch! Forest Floor is now available to download as a free e-book. Enjoy! Thank you for supporting our work.
January 12, 2025
Writers in Trees Anthology Book Launch – Forest Floor
Please join Writers in Trees for the virtual book launch of our very first anthology: Forest Floor. Two years in the making, and filled with blood, sweat, tears and (virtual) ink, we couldn’t be more excited to share this project with you! Thursday, January 16, 2025. Online. Free with registration.
July 5, 2024
Summer Scribes, a free online Q & A event hosted by WiT member Ann Y.K. Choi and author Adam Pottle, is back for the event’s fifth year. Open to emerging writers in Canada who have not yet published a full-length book or had a professional production, this year’s focus is on the craft of writing fiction. Guest interviewer, Syeda Shanzay Eliya Shah-Birousk, took a moment to interview the event’s hosts. Check it out and learn more about this learning opportunity here. Registration deadline: July 25, 2024; Event date: August 15, 2024.
May 24, 2024
John Bao was recently published in taclanese as part of the Youth Critics Initiative, writing a critique on a short film screened at the 27th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival which you can read here. Celebrate the launch of the zine, Review Underway, on May 30, 2024, 6-9 pm at 401 Richmond! Listen to a panel with the editors, get a free booklet with the Editors’ choices of past YCI iterations, and mingle with free food and drinks. No registration required!
John is also a fellow of the Justice For My Sister BIPOC Sci-Fi Screenwriting Lab, developing an all-ages animated TV pilot under the guidance of industry professionals.
May 16, 2024
Santhwana Micheal finished their Bachelor of Arts in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Toronto and is waiting eagerly for graduation ceremony in June 2024.
May 14, 2024
As the editor of Root & STEM, I’m so proud that we were nominated for the Best Science and Storytelling category of the 2024 Digital Publishing Awards. This category honours the best overall story dealing with issues or subjects of science or technology, including investigative reporting, analysis and/or profiles. Our piece, Cree Coding, by Jon Corbett tells an important story about the power of language in programming. – Chelsea Kowalski
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