Come join us virtually on Tuesday March 11th , 2025 at 3:00 pm for a Creative Writing Workshop to develop self-expression and make space for reflection!
Our Wellness event will take place over Zoom.
Writing Tools, Tricks and Test It Out
Join us for a writing workshop that will give some basic writing skills alongside my top tips of the trade for telling great stories. We’ll then do some fun writing prompts to test the literary waters. This class is zero-pressure and trauma-informed and a safe space for all.
We look forward to having you join us for this creative event all about you!
Meet the PhD in Creative Writing!
Dr. Kelly S. Thompson is a writer, educator and academic, as well as a retired logistics officer within the Canadian Armed Forces. She has an MFA and a PhD in Creative Writing, with research centered on representations of grief and trauma, as well as narrative therapy process. She is now a mentor at the University of King’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction.
Her essays, poems, and fiction have appeared in literary magazines, trade publications, and anthologies, as well as publications such as Chatelaine, Maclean’s, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and more. Her memoir, Girls Need Not Apply: Field Notes from the Forces, was an instant Globe and Mail bestseller and was listed as one of the top 100 Books of 2019 by the Globe and Mail. Her second memoir, Still, I Cannot Save You: A memoir of sisterhood, love and letting go, released in 2023 and was also an instant bestseller and a finalist for the Nova Scotia Creative Nonfiction Book Prize and the Canadian Book Club Memoir Prize.
What to Bring
Pen and paper or computer–whatever works for the writer!
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For more information, please contact:
Freedom Lee
Wellness Care Manager/ Educator | Gerante de soins
(905) 827-8800 ext. 2330