New mentorship program for young writers
Oisín Curran grew up in rural Maine. He received a BA in Classics and an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University (where he was the recipient of a national scholarship and a writing fellowship), and a diploma in Translation (French to English) from Concordia University.
November 26, 2025
-by April MacDonald
The Cabot Trail Writers Festival is inviting any Cape Breton writer between ages 12 and 18 to submit an application to their Raise Our Voices (ROV) writing contest and mentorship program for young writers. Touching base with Rebecca Silver-Slayter, the author of In the Land of Birdfishes, which was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and The Second History, she said that it’s been the Cabot Trail Writers Festival’s goal to create special programming that focuses on young people.
