To the editor:
The Northwestern Ontario Writers Workshop has selected its e-Writer in Residence for the spring of 2013.
Marilyn Dumont, a Canadian poet of Cree/Métis descent, will provide manuscript critiques and workshops to Northwestern Ontario writers between March and May 2013.
Dumont is the second e-writer in residence for NOWW, following a successful program in 2011.
Dumont will provide manuscript critiques by email. She will also deliver writing workshops via videoconference, thanks to a partnership with K-Net Services, a branch of the Northern Chiefs Council. (knet.ca).
Through distance workshops, Dumont will teach youth from off-road First Nations at the Keewaytinook Internet High School, as well as beginner writers located in the far north of our region.
She will also be in Thunder Bay in person for a program launch event in late April, at which time she will visit with students at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School.
Marilyn Dumont’s first poetry collection, A Really Good Brown Girl, won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.
The Northwestern Ontario Writers Workshop is a group of Northwestern Ontario-based writers who provide inspiration and support through workshops, a newsletter, and a writing contest.
Amy Jones,
Thunder?Bay
