Creative Canadian Women: Author Susan Wadds
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Winner of the 2024 Canadian Book Club Awards for fiction, Susan Wadds, author of "What the Living Do", shares her inspiring journey from aspiring poet to published novelist.
But we also discuss the power of community and connection in the creative process. Susan fosters safe communities for other creatives through her workshops and retreats while also creating additional revenue streams for herself, In this episodes she shares with us just how she does that!
Susan is not only an author, she is also an Amherst Writers & Artists writing workshop facilitator, a mother, and a therapeutic bodyworker. As an uninvited guest on traditional Anishinaabe territory in Williams treaty land, she is deeply curious about identity beyond gender and enculturation. A winner in the The Canadian Book Club Awards, her debut novel, What the Living Do, addresses gender roles, survivor guilt, and sexual grooming.
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⭐️ are curious about Susan and her novel "What the Living Do"
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