![]() ![]() She has been a professor of journalism and English at Sacramento City College since 1993, where she launched the campus literary journal Susurrus and created a class using the AWA method, “Writing as a Healing Art.” She is currently the chair of the journalism department, where she advises the campus newspaper and journalistic magazine. Jan worked as a reporter and copy editor for newspapers and an international wire service, before serving as editor of Sacramento magazine. She began writing as soon as she could hold a pencil, her mother says, eventually completing bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism and English at California State University, Sacramento. Jan Haag leads writing workshops using the Amherst Writers & Artists method in Sacramento and is the editor of AWA Press. See her performance poetry to music on her website. She was on the Canadian Team of AWA Trainers in 20. She guides StillPoint Writing Workshops and Editing Circles in the AWA Method in schools, youth shelters, universities and hospitals. for the League of Canadian Poets 2012 -2018, and inaugurated Toronto’s “Poetry in Union” in 2018, and “Poetry and Healing” for Sick Kids in 2019. She was in-house editor for Quattro Books and edited Best New Poets in Canada 2018. She has been published in numerous Canadian and International Journals and Anthologies, such as Vallum, Malahat Review, CV2, Grain, Saranac Review, and was shortlisted for Descant’s Best Canadian Poem, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Prize, the Robert Frost Poetry Award and others. She was shortlisted for Arc’s Poem of the Year 2019, and for Exile’s Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize 2018, and won the 2018 King Foundation Georgian Bay Project Award for her nature poetry. Kate Marshall Flaherty’s sixth book of poetry, “Radiant,” launched in 2019 with Inanna Press. Through workshops, retreats, sanctuaries and courses, Sue helps writers dig deep to mine their own authentic treasure. The Canadian Psychological Association awarded her their annual prize for Academic Excellence for her psychology thesis. She’s also won the Timothy Findley Creative Writing Prize, among others, for her short stories and poetry. Sue won the Canadian Library Association’s Young Adult Novel of the Year for her fantasy Strandia published with HarperCollins in Canada and Farrar Strauss Giroux in the US. She has served on the board of AWA since 2014.įor thirteen years she led writing workshops for female inmates at Central East Correctional Centre, a program for which she received the 2007 June Callwood Award for Outstanding Volunteerism. ![]() She is both past president of the Writers Community of Durham Region and past vice-president of the national Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs (Canada’s version of the AWP). Chair: Sue Reynolds is a psychotherapist, a writer and a writing facilitator passionate about the Amherst Writers and Artists method.
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