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Bundle of Love
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. Bundle of Love by Aleya Hassan It was the summer of my fifteenth birthday, on the third Friday of July. It was the yearly Imamat day celebration at Almuhamadia school in the Alkhwabi area. From the balcony I could see people gathering at […]
Pardon My French
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. Pardon My French by Hiba ElMiari This story is inherently dedicated to my father. Also, to my dear friend Priscilla Jamal who encouraged me to participate in this workshop. Priscilla, everytime I write, I am one hundred percent sure that you will be […]
Nona Nona
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. Nona Nona by Nazmi Alkawash This is Nazmi, who came Canada in 2014 with my small family of five—me, my husband, two daughters, and mother in-law. My mother-in-law was dear to my heart. Her warm hugs and kisses were the source of my […]
My Education
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. My Education by Maya Baltagi Your education shapes you. The daily struggles, making friends; each step has its quirks. Now throw in constant change and country hopping and you’ve entered a whole new ball game. Like most kids of my generation from the […]
An English Guy
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. An English Guy by Lina Alsafi “Why do you have to be an English guy!” I angrily said to my dad the second I got into the car. My dad isn’t English. He is actually Iraqi. So I should explain why I said this […]
Late Night Cake
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. Late Night Cake by Reema It is 1:00 am. Everything around me is darkness, except for a dim light from the small battery-powered lamp in the middle of the living-room. The light is so dim that I can hardly see the faces of my family, […]
Nunca más (Never Again)
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. Nunca más (Never Again) by Cecilia Vizcaíno Summer: I am eight years old. I am sitting on the floor of my grandparents’ house in Banfield, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It’s too hot outside. We just had lunch so my bon-papa needs a nap in […]
The Factory
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. The Factory by Mandy Bao-Phuong Lam We awaken before the sun is up because her day starts much earlier than mine. Today, I am being taken to my mother’s workplace to experience a full day of work for the first time. My friends will […]
Rachel Panico’s Writing Space
When the world stopped in March 2020, there was an awkward pause in my education involving constant mass emails from Wilfrid Laurier University about moving online that basically all said the same thing: “We’re working on it!” All my professors gave open-ended extensions on upcoming assignments because none of them knew what was going on […]
“Write What You Know” with Rachel Panico
The title is in quotation marks because this is what we say to young people who are interested in writing. Here’s the problem: as a young person, my first thought is, “But I don’t know anything yet. I don’t have as much life experience as you.” We feel we don’t have anything valuable to contribute […]
