Adopting a "multiculturalism-from-below" approach and the perspective of public pedagogy, this study presents findings from a community-based research project that looked into a group of immigrant women writers' perceptions and experiences of everyday multiculturalism in the setting of a community writing workshop in Metro Vancouver, BC. Drawing on observation, interviews, and written artifacts, the findings highlight how the writers navigated on-the-ground multiculturalism through shared writing practices. These on-the-ground experiences reveal the disparities between the state multicultural ideology and the daily lived realities. The findings also demonstrate the pedagogical significance of the writing workshop as a critical praxis for transnational literary practices and socio-cultural learning.