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The Armadillo will be available for purchase at our launch, through Descant (online by clicking here as well as by phone and mail order), and on magazine stands and in bookstores across the country as of December 2007.
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Save The Armadillo! now hear)) this! is a special project of the Descant Arts & Letters Foundation, which is a registered charity. Your generosity keeps the now hear)) this! program possible. Donations of any amount are greatly appreciated. All donations are tax deductible. (Charitable #12300 3709 RR0001).
After a smashingly successful inaugural year, SWAT (Students, Writers and Teachers), run in conjunction between Descant Arts & Letters Foundation’s now hear)) this! outreach program and the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), is proud to present The Armadillo, an anthology of creative writing by student participants of the program.
Between February and May 2007, over seven hundred students, ten writers and ten teachers took part in twelve weeks of innovative writing workshops in Toronto high school classrooms. The Armadillo showcases the greatest hits of the SWAT program: student-written stories, poems, personal essays, reviews and screenplays documenting the success of Toronto’s first-ever ongoing writers-in-schools program.
The Armadillo allows students to publish alongside their mentors and senior writers, exposing them to the ins and outs of the publishing process. What’s more, the students’ pieces are prefaced by personal essays by the writers, contextualizing the students’ creative work and outlining the workshops they developed to draw out each student’s original voice.
Check out the Armadillo Launch Photos.
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Now Hear This! is a project of
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