News

Coffee Shop will begin in September 2024 and run for eight weeks.  

Coffee Shop will begin in January 2024 and run for eight weeks.  

Sister Writes’ Newest Program is Coffee Shop! It launches in Spring 2023.

Register for The Writing Workshop’s online edition. Next session begins May 2022.

The Work Issue is written by women working in Toronto’s service industry.

We’re in the news again!

A piece of writing is a work of art, but so is the process that brings it into being. In 2015, Sister Writes launched an exhibition, The Art of Writing, which celebrated both the verb and the noun: the writers process of writing as well as the writing they produce.… Read more

We’re going on the road.

Sister Writes’ 2017 launch was held on December 8, 2018, at a packed event at the Bloor-Gladstone Library. With art by Marsha Matheson, and designed by Virginia LeBlanc, we’re particularly proud of this year’s magazine, which has not one, but two, unique covers, and 12 beautiful stories inside written by… Read more

Hoa Nguyen, two-time guest workshop leader at Sister Writes, has made the shortlist for the world’s largest poetry prize, the Griffin. She is nominated for her latest collection of poems, Violet Energy Ingots, a book that the judging committee described as “…confident of both its voice and its readers’ alertness. It… Read more

We have grown – and joined the Permanent Collection.

Sister Writes recently launched two new magazines Sister Writes 2.3 and 2.4 — it’s been quite the whirlwind of activity here! If you didn’t get a chance to join us at our launch on Saturday January 14,  you can also read new magazines in our archive. In the meantime, scroll down to see some… Read more