To contact Sue, please email her at sue@goforwords.com
Biography
Susan Lynn Reynolds is a novelist, poet, freelance editor and journalist and an accredited writing instructor in the Amherst Writers and Artists method. She is also President this year of the Writers’ Circle of Durham Region.
She has been teaching creative writing for over 10 years in workshops all over southern Ontario as well as through the Continuing Ed program at Durham College North in Uxbridge.
Her novel Strandia won the Canadian Library Association’s Young Adult Novel of the Year award, and she won the Timothy Findley Creative Writing Prize three years in a row for her short stories and poetry. Her first chapbook of poetry, skinned, was published by CreativeJames Publishing in 2008 and was shortlisted for the WCDR’s 2008 Chapbook Challenge.
Her area of specialty is the therapeutic use of journaling and memoir, and her thesis on that topic received the Canadian Psychological Association’s Award of Academic Excellence in 2006. She has been leading writing workshops for female inmates at Central East Correctional Centre for three years and received the 2007 June Callwood Award for Outstanding Volunteerism for that program. She is currently working on her Masters degree and a new novel.
For more information, check her websites:
www.goforwords.com
www.piquantproductions.ca
