Armadillo anthology by students celebrated by Descant

Descant Arts & Letters Foundation (publishers of Descant magazine) runs a laudable literacy program called Now Hear This!, an outreach with the Toronto Catholic District School Board that sends professional writers into schools to conduct writing workshops with students.

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 as part of Students, Writers and Teachers (S.W.A.T), a Now Hear This! initiative. After a smashingly successful inaugural year, S.W.A.T. is proud to present The Armadillo, an anthology of creative writing by student participants of the program.

The Armadillo showcases the greatest hits of the S.W.A.T. program: student-written stories, poems, personal essays, reviews and screenplays documenting the success of Toronto¹s first-ever ongoing writers-in-schools program.

The anthology will be launched with a celebration of Now Hear This! on Monday, November 19 from 7-9 pm at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto (Terrace Room, 3rd Floor, 111 Queen¹s Park). Admission is free.