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 and in palliative care groups and social service agencies with a variety of populations.
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
1 comment
August 31, 2008 at 2:08 am
Denielle Martin
Hi Sue!
I was incarcerated in Sept/05. Gosh how time flies. You often cross my mind and tonight searching for something that has nothing to do with me being “THERE”, I found you. I really wanted at the time to follow thru with having a piece of MY writing in one of YOUR books. I wasn’t proud of myself for landing in that situation, but it happened. And I absolutely think you are amazing for offering your time. I appreciated every moment spent with you. But when I was released I never wanted to look back.
I have re-read my writing often and it amazes me. Maybe things have changed since I was there, but my wish is that there was a male version of you for the male inmates. They need a way to express themselves as much as we do if not more.