In this workshop, we will explore ways to restore flow to your creative writing practice—or to introduce it for the first time. Through the lens of an expressive arts approach, participants will cultivate or renew a relationship with creative writing through in-session writing/arts-based activities. While no experience is required, these sessions are also relevant to experienced writers looking to expand their creative practice.
This class is generously funded by the Canadian Poetry Fund a local donor-advised fund which fosters accessible public educational outreach for poetry and other forms of creative writing through the services of the Vancouver Public Library.--
Andrea Routley is the author of the short-fiction collections This Unlikely Soil and Jane and the Whales and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction and the Malahat Review Novella Prize. She has taught creative writing in both institutional, community, and one-on-one settings, with a focus on writing as an orientation to the world, one that cultivates curiosity and compassion. She is the editor of Walk Myself Home: An Anthology to End Violence Against Women, and was the founding editor of Plenitude, Canada's queer literary magazine.