Art is like therapy. Emotional clarity drives both. For decades, Wayne Ng has enjoyed working as a social worker in schools with young adults and emerging writers. He has run writing groups and delivered discussions on using art as a career pathway while inspiring others to create, to heal, and to find oneself. Writing is a great vehicle to accomplish this as the strongest craft has elements of self-discovery. This workshop for emerging and young adult writers offers introductory level, hands-on writing prompts taken from epistolary and young adult works. These workshops encourage participants to draw from their gut, using self-awareness and emotion in writing scenes and developing characters.

Location: Historic Joy Kogawa House

Type: Workshop

Facilitator: Wayne Ng

About The Facilitator

Wayne Ng was born in downtown Toronto to Chinese immigrants who fed him a steady diet of bitter melons and kung fu movies. Ng was a social worker in Ottawa for almost thirty years. Now he lives to write, travel, eat and play, preferably all at the same time. He is an award-winning writer who continues to push his boundaries from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Author of LETTERS FROM JOHNNY (winner of the 2022 best novella by Crime Writers of Canada, short-listed for the Ottawa Book Award), THE FAMILY CODE (short-listed for the Guernica Prize, 2021), JOHNNY DELIVERS (2024) and FINDING THE WAY: A NOVEL OF LAO TZU. Connect with Wayne at WayneNgWrites.com