Creative Writing Drop-In: Making Space and Time for Your Creative Writing and Self-Expression Practices (February 15 – March 22, 2023)

Creative Writing Drop-In: Making Space and Time for Your Creative Writing and Self-Expression Practices (February 15 – March 22, 2023)

Sponsored by the Alan Klass Program in Health and Humanities

The new Interprofessional Health, Arts, and Humanities program offers Rady Faculty of Health Sciences faculty, staff, and students arts and humanities programming that enhances well-being and improves patient care. Workshops can be taken individually or as part of the new Certificate in Health, Arts, and Humanities.

Research has shown compelling evidence of the physical, emotional, and health benefits of having a creative practice in place. These six-week drop-in sessions, Februaopen to all levels of writing experience, will offer you time to write and think creatively in a supportive and invigorating space. Each session will include writing prompts, conversations about all aspects of creative writing and self-expression practices, including the rewards as well as the challenges that arise. There will also be time set aside for participants to write each week. Curiosity, imaginative engagement, and serious play will be encouraged. Fear, trepidation, and self-criticism are also welcome.

Sue Goyette lives in K’jipuktuk (Halifax). She has published eight books of poems and a novel. Her forthcoming collection, Monoculture, will be published by Gaspereau Press in fall 2022. Her has been nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award and has won several awards including the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award for her collection, Ocean. Sue teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University and is the current Poet Laureate for HRM.  

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Alan Klass Program in Health Humanities