Mission
I started my private writing school Mockler's Writing Workshop in 2017.
My goal is it offer free or affordable writing courses to anyone who wants to write.
I don't believe in the idea of talent or genius.
I believe anyone who wants to be a writer can be a writer.
You don't need permission.
You just need to desire it and to work hard.
But sometimes structure and support can help you along the way, and that's what I'm here to offer in the form of free courses, affordable group workshops, one-on-one mentorship, and manuscript evaluation.
I also run a blog where I offer writing tips and prompts.
Explore my site and let me know what you think.
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ABOUT KATHRYN MOCKLER
From Western News, 2012 Kathryn Mockler makes students’ writing come alive. Whether in the numerous courses she has developed – Out of the Book: Creative Writing in the Digital Age and Renewing Your Poetic Licence – or in her mentoring of students, Mockler makes creative writing real. Her real-world sense of the value of writing means she’s as engaged in the classroom as she is at her own writing desk. “One has to remember her teaching involves being critical of students’ most personal and prized creative endeavours,” Michael Milde, Arts and Humanities acting dean, said. “She gives them a hard time – and they like it. That takes real skill.” TEACHING AWARDS Awarded The Angela Armitt Award for Excellence in Teaching by Part-Time Faculty, Western University, 2012 USC Teaching Honour Roll, Western University, 2008 |
LiteraryKathryn Mockler is an award-winning writer, poet, screenwriter, editor, publisher, and creative writing professor.
She is the author of the books Some Theories (ST Press, 2017), The Purpose Pitch (Mansfield Press, 2015), The Saddest Place on Earth (DC Books, 2012), and Onion Man (Tightrope Books, 2011). Her writing has been published in Public Pool, The Butter, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Found Press, and Geist. Currently, she is the Toronto Editor of Joyland: a hub for short fiction and the Publisher of the online literary and arts journal The Rusty Toque. filmIn 2005, she attended the Canadian Film Centre's Writers' Lab and wrote two short films for the NBC/Universal Short Dramatic Film Program. She has seven shorts films and videos produced to date.
Her work has been broadcast on TMN, Movieola, and Bravo and has screened at festivals such as the Washington Project for the Arts Experimental Media Series, Toronto International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Festival, Worldfest, Cinequest, and EMAF. Her films are distributed by Ouat Media, V-tape, and the Canadian Film Centre. She provides script analysis for major production companies and funding agencies in Canada. teachingKathryn has taught fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenwriting, and experimental writing since 2003 at four post secondary institutions.
She currently teaches creative writing at Western University where she won the Angela Armitt Award for Excellence in Teaching. The poetry and fiction she's published has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry, The Journey Prize, and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award. Her undergraduate creative writing students have published in Vallum, Ditch, Poetry is Dead, The Malahat Review, and many other journals. And they've gone on to study creative writing and screenwriting at Columbia University, University of Southern California, UBC, Guelph-Humber, Humber Film and Television Program, York University, University of Toronto, University of New Brunswick, and University of Victoria. |
