Kat McNichol of Dreamers Creative Writing offers a workshop on Writing to Heal, June 9, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at Rivermead (19 Cedar Street, Eden Mills).
Participants will move through a series of writing prompts designed to explore themes connected to their lived experience. Using creative non-fiction and fiction, poetry and journaling, they will learn techniques for restorying self, explore approaches to self-reflexive writing, review contexts where writing is being used for personal development, and share their writing with the course instructor and fellow participants.
The workshop is presented with the support of the Eden Mills Writers Festival. It includes lunch, coffee, tea and snacks. The cost is $75.
Register through Dreamers Creative Writing.
Kat McNichol is the Editor-in-Chief of Dreamers Creative Writing and the Co-Editor for the Journal of Integrated Studies. She is also a Director of Marketing-Communications in Waterloo and has spent the past 12+ years writing marketing copy for the high-tech industry. She holds a B.A. in English Literature, and an MAIS in Writing and New Media, and Literary Studies, and she is working on a PhD in Career Writing at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands.