Writing can be lonely.
Let’s fix that!
I help writers find and shelter their voices in fun, encouraging, gentle workshops that bring the pleasure back into this thing that we love to do.
WORKSHOPS
I really love writing workshops, especially the generative kind. I take a lot of them, and many of the poems in my book started in some workshop or other.
Because I like them so much, I became certified in facilitating workshops in the AWA Method. Amherst Writers & Artists is an international writing organization founded on the belief that everyone is a writer. AWA supports practiced and emerging writers through a proven workshop method.
ONGOING
WRITERS’ DROP-IN WITH KELSEY ANDREWS
Next Dates: Sept 6, Oct 4, Nov 1
Nell Horth Room, Sidney Public Library
First Saturday of the month, 2 to 4 pm PT
We’ll have three quiet writing periods where we can write with the provided prompts or on our own work, with two breaks in between to get to know each other. Offered in partnership with the Sidney/North Saanich Library.
POETRY WORKSHOPS FOR PEOPLE AFRAID OF POETRY
Two two-hour workshops
On Zoom
12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific time
Saturday November 15th and Sunday November 16th
Are you afraid of poetry? Not sure you understand it? Maybe you already write poetry, but still that little voice in your head says you’re not doing it “right”?
In two zoom weekend afternoon two-hour workshops, Kelsey will help you play with language in a gentle, nonjudgemental atmosphere. You will read (and enjoy) poems and write some drafts of your own. You will have a chance to share your writing (though you don’t have to) for positive and encouraging feedback. You will never again feel that you need an MFA or a decoder ring to “get” a poem.
COMING SOON
Fairy Tale Trio
Perhaps because we’ve read them over and over. Perhaps because we’ve read them young. Perhaps because they contain magic and morals. Perhaps for all these reasons, fairy tales offer a deep well of inspiration for many of us. The Fairy Tale Trio of workshops on two Tuesdays and one Thursday (take all three or pick and choose) takes three archetypes from fairy tales and plays with them, offering prompts for writing poetry, fiction or nonfiction. Let’s write to these stories and drink from that deep well of symbol.
Dark Forest Zoom Workshop
6:00 to 8:00 pm Pacific Tuesday November 18, 2025
Witches Zoom Workshop
6:00 to 8:00 pm Pacific Thursday November 27, 2025
Wolves Zoom Workshop
6:00 to 8:00 pm Pacific Tuesday December 2, 2025
PAST OFFERINGS
Gathering Words for Summer in-person week
at Naramata Centre
July 21-25, 2025
Naramata Centre
Summer (and a week at Naramata in particular) can go by so fast! Let’s gather some impressions, some thoughts, some of that wonderful summer-at-Naramata energy for later, by writing them down. This five-day, in-person workshop is for anyone who wants to write - in any genre or style -in community in an encouraging, gentle, and exploratory way.
WRITING IN THE DARK OF THE YEAR III
Naramata Centre Zoom
Tuesdays, January 14 to February 11, 2025, 6pm to 8pm PT
$125
This five-week workshop is for folks at all levels who want to write—in any genre or style—in community in an encouraging, gentle, and exploratory way.
HARVEST OF WORDS
Naramata Centre Zoom
Tuesdays, Sept. 3 to Oct. 8, 2024, 6pm to 8pm PT
$150
This five-week workshop is for folks at all levels who want to write—in any genre or style—in community in an encouraging, gentle, and exploratory way.
