Cathartic Writing

Fun and friendly social followed by brand new session – cathartic writing

Release your inner writer in these cathartic creative writing sessions. We will meet on zoom once a month and discuss a different theme each time. Facilitator Joanna will share pieces of writing on the theme, from selected works of fiction, memoir, or creative nonfiction, and we’ll discuss how we feel about the pieces. Then, you’ll be invited to use the class as inspiration to create your own piece of writing in the intervening weeks, to be shared at the next class if you so choose. You can send the writing to Joanna in advance or read it yourself. There is no obligation to write or to share; if you prefer to just listen, that’s fine, too.

Joanna Williams is a qualified counsellor and also a novelist (published under the name Joanna Barnard). She is very interested in the intersection between creative writing and mental health, and has been facilitating writing for wellbeing classes for over seven years, as well as using therapeutic writing tools in her counselling practice.