A Crash Course in Life-Writing

With workshop leader, Eva Allen.

Words, indeed, are the seeds that grow our world.  Often the spoken words of others take root in such a way that the emotional and spiritual vitality of our life is hampered by uncertainty, discontent, or fear. When this happens, dreams die, creativity withers. By choosing the words that define our experience, we can, with our own hand and heart, REWRITE the chapters of our life and set free the splendid purpose that lies within.

This workshop helps us break old patterns, find new hope, and discover the power, health and happiness that lies within while honing our craft as creative writers. The unique interactive exercises are a means to finding new energy and purpose through the release of personal creativity.

About Eva:

Eve Mills Allen currently works as a mental health therapist for in the Moncton area, New Brunswick, Canada. She worked for several years as a journalist before changing careers.

In 2002, her memoir, Little White Squaw: A White Woman’s Story of Abuse, Addiction and Reconciliation, (under the name Eve Mills Nash) coauthored by Kenneth J Harvey, was published by Beech Holme Publishing in Vancouver. It is now with Dundurn Press in Toronto.

She has published in several magazines and her short stories have appeared in several anthologies. She also won several short story contests in Atlantic Canada and wrote the treatment for a TV series on APTN for one season. She taught a life writing class at the College of Extended learning, UNB, for 10 years and also offered sessions at the Maritime Writers Workshops there for two summers.

In February 2021 her non-fiction novel, In the Arms of Inup: the extraordinary story of a Guatemalan survivor and his quest for healing from trauma was released by HARP Publishing in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Two months later (April 2021) her fiction Unlikely Angels, which shows how trauma survivors sometimes use fantasy to cope with their painful memories, was released through Taj Mahal Publishing in India – Cyberwit.net.