March 2-6, 2009

Canadian Council on Learning, Knowledge Exchange Grant for writing workshop offered at Turtle Island Kaakiyow Ii Moond Likol, “Creative Resistance: Women Write From Their Lives.”

I Co-Facilitated a four-day, intensive writing and publishing workshop with Lorri Neilsen Glenn for adult women in marginalized communities. The women wrote, edited, collaborated and published a literary of poetry, vignettes, drawings and black and white photographs of their experiences on the margins.

The workshop ended with the publication of a zine and a public reading of the women’s work. The zine had a one-time print run of 100, and was distributed to other adult learning centres, libraries, and resource centres that specialize in adult learning. The publication and reading of the women’s work coincided with International Adult Learners’ Week and International Women’s Day. I am totally inspired by these amazing women!

Lorri Neilsen Glenn grew up in Western Canada and now lives and teaches in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lorri is the author and editor of thirteen collections of (academic and trade) nonfiction and poetry, including Threading Light (2011) and Lost Gospels (2010). Untying the Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of the 1950s (Guernica, 2013) is now in its third printing.

KAAKIYOW LI MOOND LIKOL in Turtle Island Neighbourhood Centre is an adult learning centre that offers free enrolment, mature student diplomas, upgrading, computer classes, tutors, field trips, a breakfast program, links to community resources, and a cultural focus.