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.

A pen rests on a page with writing next to some flowers

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.

  • “The prompts were rich. The pacing was good. The people were lovely. It was gentle and generative.”

    JILL

  • "I left with so many ideas, thoughts, and first drafts.”

    PAM

  • "Feels rich and deep."

    MO

  • "Loved the variety of prompts, led to surprising writing for me!"

    MONIKA