Creative writing workshops can be energizing and restorative, all at once: spaces of quietude and community where we can cultivate deeper receptivity to ourselves, each other, and the world.
My teaching departs from the premise that your own experience—whether you’ve been writing for decades or are coming to the page for the first time—is a legitimate, worthwhile place to begin. My workshops are designed to strengthen your relationship to the creative tools you already possess and to invite exploration of tools you may have yet to discover.
I have facilitated creative writing workshops in many places, including Boston University, the UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness, Enabling Arts, and the Vancouver Public Library. A former high school teacher, I have also taught in public schools in Canada, the United States, and France. I am able to facilitate workshops in both English and French.
If you’re interested in having me work with your classroom, organization, or writing group, I’d love to hear from you.
SELECTED WORKSHOPS
Write Where You Are
A person “must have money and a room of her own if she is to write,” Virginia Woolf famously claimed nearly a century ago. Today, the advice has shifted: countless books and blogs promise that elaborate time-management strategies will help readers gain control over their schedules and begin to flourish creatively.
But what if you’ll never have a room of your own, or complete control over your time? What if it were possible to write where, and as, you are?
Through a series of guided readings and prompts, participants will explore the pressures and challenges currently affecting their writing routine, and the ways these pressures and challenges might actually hold creative power.
Write Like a River
Like rivers, poems love to move. They curve, drift, and change directions; they rush into cascading images and eddy into pools of quiet contemplation.
In this 90-minute workshop, participants will explore a series of guided readings and prompts designed to unlock poetry’s watery, sinuous, and playful impulses.