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FOLD 2026: Overcoming Writer’s Block

April 27, 2026
Virtual
Zoom
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Workshop Description

In this practical, insight-driven virtual workshop, author and psychotherapist Farzana Doctor explores how emotion-based strategies can deepen your writing and help you move through mental blocks in the creative journey. Drawing on both clinical insight and creative practice, explore tools to strengthen your craft while supporting your process.

 

A recording of this workshop will be made available on YouTube a week after the event. Please register for the workshop to receive an email with the YouTube link once it becomes available. You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel and turn on notifications or follow us on Instagram for the latest updates.

This session will be closed-captioned. Closed captioning provided by Zoom auto transcription.

This session will be followed by a Q&A.

Workshop Presenter

Farzana Doctor

Farzana Doctor

Author

Farzana Doctor (she/her) is an author, activist and psychotherapist. She’s written five novels: Stealing Nasreen, Six Metres of Pavement, All Inclusive, Seven, and The Beauty of Us, a poetry collection, You Still Look The Same and a workbook for helpers and activists, 52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life. In 2023, Farzana received the Freedom To Read Award. In 2020, Seven was chosen as an Amnesty International Reader’s Choice Pick and was shortlisted for the Trillium and Evergreen awards. Six Metres of Pavement won the Lambda and Writers’ Trust Dayne Oglivie prizes and was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award in 2012.

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