Back by popular demand, with all-new speakers!
Trying to figure out how to balance writing with all your other life obligations? Join our panel of authors as they discuss how they manage creative projects alongside children, households, day jobs, and more. Our presenters Chelene Knight, Chinelo Onwualu, Amanda Leduc have all needed to get creative about their creativity - and they're willing to share their trials and triumphs with you. Bring a notepad!
This workshop is free to attend. However, if you have the means, we invite you to consider a donation to The Word On The Street as a way of helping to keep these arts events accessible for everyone into the future.
Starts on Tue, Sep 2, 2025 3:00 PM PST / 6:00 PM EDT
About the Facilitators
Chelene Knight is the author of five books including Safekeeping: A Writer’s Guided Journal For Launching a Book With Love (Anansi 2025), and Let It Go: Free Yourself From Old Beliefs and Find a New Path To Joy (HarperCollins Canada 2024). She is founder of her own creative studio, Breathing Space Creative through which she’s launched the BSC Writing Mentorships which are thoughtfully designed to help writers elevate their craft, shape and develop their manuscripts, and deepen their connection to who they are as creatives.
Chinelo Onwualu is a queer Nigerian writer and editor living in Toronto. She's the co-host of Griots and Galaxies, a podcast about African Speculative fiction and the people who write it. She's also co-founder of Omenana, a magazine of African Speculative Fiction. She was chief spokesperson for the African Speculative Fiction Society and a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, which she attended as the recipient of the Octavia E. Butler Scholarship. Her short stories have been featured in Slate.com, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, The Kalahari Review and Brittle Paper magazines, and several award-winning anthologies. She’s been nominated for the Locus Awards, the British Science Fiction Awards, the Nommo Awards, and the Short Story Day Africa Award. Ex Marginalia, her collection of essays by authors of colour, is available now.
Amanda Leduc is a disabled writer whose novel, The Centaur's Wife, is "an exquisite magical world, rendered, for [a] dark and wonderful story about the dream life of outsiders and the disabled" (Heather O'Neill). Her non-fiction book Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space was nominated for the 2020 Governor General’s Award. Her essays and stories have appeared in Canada, US, UK and Australia. She speaks across N.A. on accessibility and the role of disability in storytelling. Amanda holds a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of St. Andrews. She has cerebral palsy and lives in Hamilton.