Facilitating Mentorship, Creating Community
The Union welcomes mentee applications from Black, Indigenous, and racialized emerging writers across Canada to participate in this year’s virtual conference and mentorship program.
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Yann Martel
Novelist (Photo: Emma Love Photography)
We all need to stand up for ourselves. TWUC makes it easy for writers to do so.
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- Powerful advocacy in support of writers’ rights
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Aug. 7 2026
Kelly Madden
Unresponsive is a raw, unflinching, and necessary poetry collection that descends into the alleys, shelters and forgotten corners where the addicted, the lonely and the discarded struggle to survive. Urgent in tone and moral clarity, the collection stands as a call to action in the face of the…
