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What happens when young writers are given space, mentorship, and community? ✨ Rising Voices. ✨

This weekend, INKspire celebrated the launch of our first print anthology featuring work from 25 incredible Writer Fellows exploring identity, race, grief, joy, resistance, and growth. 📸

To our fellows: thank you for trusting us with your stories. To our community: thank you for believing in youth voices. ❤️

A special thank you to MPP and Councillor Chris Moise joining us at the launch and celebrating this milestone with our writers and community.

We’re also deeply grateful to for their continued support of INKspire and our programming. Your support helps create opportunities for emerging writers to grow, connect, and share their voices. 📚✨

Signed copies of Rising Voices will also be available at upcoming events across Toronto this month:
📍 Saturday, May 16 | 1–5 PM — Indigo Toronto Eaton Centre
📍 Sunday, May 17 | 1–3 PM — Type Books (Forest Hill)
📍 Sunday, May 31 | 1–3 PM — Book People on Queen

We can’t wait to meet more readers and writers along the way.

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One way to build your voice is to explore with others.

During our Writer-in-Residence workshop at Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism, our writer fellows practiced giving peer feedback and learned how to make a writing portfolio. Our wonderful panelists Rebecca Rosenblum, K.M. Fajardo, Emily Macrae, and Rachel Chen provided mentorship and career advice.

Thank you to our Writer-in-Residence Erica Ngao for hosting this event and Ontario Trillium Foundation for funding our Writer Fellowship Program

If you are interested in developing your craft and career as a writer, follow INKspire to stay updated for when applications open to the next cohort of the Writer Fellowship Program.