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Welcome to the home of S.W.A.T. (Students, Writers And Teachers), Toronto’s first-ever ongoing writers-in-schools program.
Welcome to NOW HEAR THIS!
NOW HEAR THIS! is the literacy outreach arm of the Descant Arts & Letters Foundation. The program connects professional authors with community groups, students and aspiring writers in order to promote Canadian literature and encourage self-expression, critical thinking and empowerment through literacy education. Explore our website to find out more about our projects, writers, how to bring a workshop to your school or organization, and ways to get involved!
This website was recently redesigned with the help of an Ontario Arts Council Compass Grant.
Now that February has finally arrived, the NOW HEAR THIS! office is buzzing with the excitement of another year of our Students, Writers and Teachers (S.W.A.T.) Creative Residencies Project! The fourth year of S.W.A.T. is set to begin THIS MONTH, and we're getting really pumped for an awesome semester!
To celebrate the impending close of Winter we look back to the summery days of last June and the HEAR/HEAR Reading Series. 
The author of the quintessential teen-angst-ridden novel The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, died today at the age of 91. Salinger's literary representative the Harold Ober Agency announced that the famously reclusive writer died at home in New Hampshire of natural causes.
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