Every year writers impart their words of wisdom to LCC students in numerous presentations and workshops. From the most world-renowned writers, like Colm Toibin (Booker-Mann Prize nominee), Alistair MacLeod (IMPAC Dublin Literary Award-winner) and LCC alumnus Stuart McLean (Stephen Leacock Award-winner), to local writers, like Heather O’Neill (Canada Reads selection Lullabies for Little Criminals), Ian McGillis (A Tourist’s Guide to Glengarry) and Carmine Starnino (A. M. Klein Poetry Prize-winner), LCC endeavours to expose students to the craft of writing and to the world of the imagination.

This year, Stuart McLean, Montreal journalist and poet Robyn Sarah and Montreal novelists Jeffrey Moore and Ami Sands-Brodoff have been invited to work with our Middle and Senior School students. Thanks to the work of past parents Ewa Zebrowski and Lori Schubert (QWF Executive Director), LCC has been blessed with a spectrum of talented writers who have stimulated students for the past eight years. In addition, a cross-section of students annually attend the Blue Metropolis Student Literary Festival where they work with writers in more intimate workshops.

If you have suggestions for writers who could work with our students, please contact me: Brian Moore (English Department Head).

— Brian Moore
Senior Department Head: English Language Arts, Communications Studies and Literacy Programs;
QAIS Curriculum Representative