Women Writing Letters: Celebrating the Art

Book excerpt: Women Writing Letters is a literary and performance event that is hosted by an independent Toronto theatre company named Gailey Road Productions. Four times a year Women Writing Letters brings together renown and up-and-coming women artists to celebrate the art of letter writing. The letters gathered here take on four provocative themes: A Letter To The Night I'd Rather Forget, A Letter To My _____ Birthday Ever, A Letter To The Things I Never Told My Mother, and A Letter To My Nemesis. The writers are playwrights, theatre artists, poets, graphic novelists, academics, essayists, novelists, short fiction writers, and songwriters. Some of the letters are funny. Some are sad. Some are funny and sad. All of them are thoughtful and reflective.