Mentorship opportunity for Toronto-area writers

Diaspora Dialogues invites submissions to its annual publishing/mentoring program. Open to GTA writers. Accepting short stories or creative nonfiction (3000 words max); plays of any length; or up to 5 poems (75 lines max). Shortlist of approximately 15 writers will be chosen and each assigned (free of charge) to an established writer or dramaturge in a mentoring capacity to gain feedback on their work. Selection of finished pieces will be published in the annual Diaspora Dialogues anthology, TOK: Writing the New Toronto. Deadline: May 8, 2009. More details...