PRiSMs: Life Writing of Women’s Voices
NEW is pleased to have renowned novelist and sociologist Dr. Althea Prince as our writer-in-residence for 2011. Dr. Prince will run writer’s workshops for women to engage in literary life writing through workshops, writing circles and one-to-one feedback. Women will have a supportive place to create original stories, poems, essays and plays. This program is generously funded by the Ontario Arts Council.
Writing circles take place on Tuesday afternoons & Saturday mornings – for more information please contact Molly at (416) 469-0196 or molly@newcomerwomen.org. Childcare is offered.
“This is the first time anyone has ever asked my opinion. I feel comfortable in speaking up and get mindful feedback on my writing and ideas.”
- S.H., emerging writer and survivor of domestic violence
Award winning author, Dr. Althea Prince was born in Antigua, the Caribbean, and has resided in Canada since the nineteen-sixties. She is a professor of sociology, teaching first at York University, and the University of Toronto. She now teaches at The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University. During the years 2002 to 2005, Dr. Prince was Managing Editor of the publishing company, Canadian Scholars’ Press & Women’s Press. Her awards include The Children’s Book Centre ‘Choice’ Award for "How the Star Fish Got to the Sea". In 2007, she received the Antigua and Barbuda International Writers’ Festival First Annual Award for Literary Excellence.
Dr. Prince’s latest work is entitled, The Politics of Black Women’s Hair (Insomniac Press. Toronto, 2009). Her other publications include: a novel, Loving This Man; a short story collection, Ladies of the Night; and Being Black a collection of essays.
More information here.
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