ReLit offers writing mentorships for Canadian teenagers (ages 14 - 19 years old).

Students will be paired with ReLit authors to work together on a selected piece.

Participants will have a chance to be featured in our literary journal.

Please contact us if you are interested in participating.

First round of mentors include:

Katherine Leyton's debut collection of poetry, All the Gold Hurts My Mouth, won the 2017 ReLit Award, and was a finalist for the Ottawa Book award. Her writing has appeared in Arc, the Globe and Mail, Hazlitt and Bitch. She is currently working on a book of creative nonfiction about the politics of pregnancy and motherhood.

Suzette Mayr is the author of five novels, including her most recent, Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall. Her fourth novel Monoceros won the ReLit Award and the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize. Her novels have also been longlisted for the Giller Prize, and nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in the Canada-Caribbean region, the Writers' Guild of Alberta's Best First Book and Best Novel Awards, and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction. She teaches Creative Writing at the University Calgary.

Craig Francis Power is a Canadian writer and artist from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. His debut novel, Blood Relatives, won the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador's Fresh Fish Award in 2007, and the Percy Janes First Novel Award for unpublished manuscripts in 2008. It was published in 2010, was short-listed for the BMO Winterset Award that year, and won the ReLit Award for Fiction in 2011. His second novel, The Hope, was published in 2016, and was again a ReLit Award finalist. His third novel, Skeet Love, followed in 2017.

Stuart Ross is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and small press activist living in Cobourg, Ontario. He is the award-winning author of twenty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, most recently Pockets (ECW Press, 2017), A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent (Wolsak and Wynn, 2016), and A Hamburger in a Gallery (DC Books, 2015). Stuart has taught workshops in elementary and high schools across the country and was the 2010 Writer-in-Residence at Queen’s University. Visiting schools and working with students of all ages is his favourite part of his writing practice. Stuart is at work writing nearly a dozen different poetry, non-fiction, and fiction manuscripts.