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We the Women: We strive

An Anthology from the New Brunswick Women’s Correctional Centre

Over the past year, two groups of To pre-order your copy, please contact
women incarcerated at the New info@miramichiliteracy.org
Brunswick Women’s Correctional The MLC was established as a non-
Centre participated in “ReTelling Our profit organization in 1978 and became
Stories”, a six-week writing course a registered charity in 2023. Our
dedicated to the cathartic nature of mission is to help adults improve their
poetry, and the power of telling your literacy skills, and to promote literacy
own story. We the Women-We strive, is in our community. We do this through a
the result of those workshops. At times variety of literacy programs and
poignant, humorous, and self-reflective, initiatives, including one-to-one
the women explore a variety of poetic tutoring, The StoryWalk at Middle
genres while offering a glimpse of their Island, and programs for the clients of
past, their experiences, and their current the NBWCC. All our programs are
situations. offered free of charge. For more
We the Women is a publication of the information, or to find out how you can
Miramichi Literacy Council, produced in help, please call 506-836-7882, email
collaboration with the New Brunswick info@miramichiliteracy.org, or visit us
Women’s Correctional Centre, and All proceeds from this publication at www.readmiramichi.ca.
facilitator of ReTelling Our Stories, will fund future volumes of We the
Kayla Geitzler. It was made possible Women. The 63-page book of poetry
thanks to the support of Read NB. will be released on October 15, 2024.

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