Susan Lynn Reynolds, Hon. BSc. Psych.,
Author, Writing Instructor and
Masters Graduate Student
Department of Psychology
Trent University

905-985-8389
cell phone: 905-243-4836
email: susanreynolds@trentu.ca

Current:

FreelanceWriter/Editor/Graphic Design

  • Partner in Piquant Productions

Masters Student,

  • Trent University, The Frost Centre for Canadian & Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary Thesis Psychology, Sociology, Women’s Studies, English

Instructor:

  • Facilitator of Program: “Tell Me Something I Can’t Forget”, Lindsay – Corrections East, Female Unit, November 2003 present
  • Facilitator of Program: “Moving ForWords”, Peterborough Elizabeth Fry Society/Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre, July 2007 present

Phone Volunteer:

  • Distress Centre Durham Crisis Hotline, Oshawa, Ontario

Writing Background:

Freelance Writer 2001 to Present

  • Clients:
    • Toronto Sun
    • Metroland Newspapers
      • Dorothea Helms, Editor
      • Catherine Daley, Editor
      • Sherry Hinman, Editor
    • Spinmaster
    • Clearwater Pools
    • Ron Marshak, Direct Mail Specialist
    • CCH Tax Planning Division
    • Elizabeth Fry Society Peterborough
    • Writers’ Circle of Durham Region

Freelance Columnist August 2004 to December 2004

  • Durham Sun,
  • Special Weekly section to Toronto Sun

Teaching Background

Facilitator

  • Trent University – English Department
    • English 205 – Form and Context in Literature

Instructor

  • Elizabeth Fry Society Peterborough
    • Intro to Creative Writing
    • Moving ForWords: Recovering Women
  • Durham College Uxbridge Campus, Continuing Education
    • Writing Your Memoirs
    • Fearless Writing
    • Intro to Creative Writing
  • Arts Resource Centre
  • City of Oshawa Course:
    • Teen Writing
  • Stouffville Library Courses:
    • Unleashing the Writer Within
    • Write for your Life: Memoir Writing
  • Writers’ Circle of Durham Region
    • Unleashing the Writer Within
    • Fearless Writing
    • Intimacy & Solitude: Issues of Relationship to Self and Other
    • Writing with a Slow Hand: How to write Erotica
    • Write for your Life: Memoir Writing
    • Narrative Yoga: Making your fiction flexible

Awards and Grants:

  • 2007 June Callwood Outstanding Achievement Awardfor Excellence in Volunteerism - Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration
  • OSG Award Ontario Graduate Scholarship – Masters
  • SSHRC Award Canadian Graduate Scholarship – Masters
  • Luke 4 Foundation – Grant to start therapeutic writing program for female inmates released back into the community
  • One of Three Winners – Canadian Psychological Association Award of Academic Excellence for the Undergraduate Psychology Honours Thesis
  • Finalist 2006 WCDR Short Story Contest
  • 1st place 2005 24 Hour Online Creative Non-Fiction Contest Writers’ Circle of Durham Region
  • 3 time winner Timothy Findley Creative Writing Prize,
    • 2005/06 Sole winner Trent University
    • 2004/05 Honourable mention & cash prize
    • 2003/04 Joint winner
  • 2005/06 President’s Honour Roll
  • 2004/05 Dean’s Honour Roll (all three years)
  • 2003/04 Trent University
  • 2004 Bruce Barrett Memorial Prize Department of Philosophy, Trent University
  • 2004 Frances Dean Kerr Scholarship Trent University
  • 1992 Canadian National Library Association Young Adult Fiction Book of the Year for my novel Strandia

Writing Education:

  • Vocables Chiara Adams and a rawlings, August 2007
  • The Writing Instructor’s Mission: Advanced Teaching Tips – Jessica Outram, July 2007
  • ENG3850 Creative Writing Trent University
  • Dr. Adrian Kelly, instructor
  • Fall-Winter 2006/07
  • The Art of Sexuality Laura Hollick, Hamilton April 2007
  • The Long Haul Barry Dempster, March 2007
  • Writing the Novel
  • Wordpress Blog Workshop Rich Helms, Durham College Uxbridge
  • February, 2007
  • AWA Workshop Leadership Pat Schneider, Massachusetts
  • Advanced Training December 2007
  • Progoff Intensive Journal Workshop Springfield, Massachusetts, Summer 2006
  • Developing Confidence in the Writing, James Dewar, April 2006
  • Editing and Public Performance of Poetry
  • Writing Poetry for Healing Margot van Sluytman
  • Palabras Press, Peterborough Fall 2005
  • Progoff Intensive Journal Workshop Seattle, Summer 2004
  • Text, Subtext, and Context Jane Bow
  • Writers Circle of Durham Region, Fall 2004
  • Conquering Corporate Markets Paul Lima
  • Cdn. Periodical Writers Assn, Spring 2004
  • Healing Writing Martin Avery,
  • Writers Circle of Durham Region, Spring 2004
  • Telling Lies Creatively: Paul Lima
  • techniques for writing fiction Cdn. Periodical Writers Assn, Autumn 2003
  • AWA Certification Amherst Writers and Artists,
  • Writing Instructor Amherst Massachusetts, Fall 2002
  • Creative Writing Advanced Durham College, Continuing Ed, Summer 2001
  • Humour Writing Durham College, Continuing Ed.
  • Introduction to Poetry
  • Write To Win: Contest Writing
  • Caught In the Web: Creating Websites
  • The Spoken Word: Writing Dialogue Ruth Walker
  • Putting Flesh on the Bones: Creating Character – Writers’ Circle of Durham Region 2001
  • The Business of Writing Dorothea Helms, Writers’ Circle of Durham Region 1999
  • Writing Practice Natalie Goldberg Taos, New Mexico, 1997, 1999

Service Background:

  • Since fall 2006 Volunteer answering crisis phoneline
  • Since November 2004 Teaching creative writing to female inmates Lindsay’s Central East Correctional Centre
  • June 2006 – June 2007 Serving on the Board of Directors Elizabeth Fry Society of Peterborough
  • 6 non-consecutive years Serving on the Board of Directors Writers’ Circle of Durham Region www.wcdr.org

Publishing Credits (literature):

  • “Chicadee Blind” – short story
    • lichen literary magazine
    • Spring 2007, “missing” edition
  • interluscious - chapbook, erotic poetry co-authored with James Dewar
  • “Leaving Your Mark” and “It’s Been Three Weeks…” anthologized in Poetry Night in Muskoka
  • “Feet” personal essay lichen literary magazine
  • Strandia –
    • Novel – Young Adult Fiction 1992
    • Simultaneous Publication
    • HarperCollins Publishers, Canada
    • Farrar Strauss Girous, US

Employment Background:

  • Fall 2007 Masters Student / Teaching Assistant: Psychology
  • 2003- present Self-employed
    • Freelance writer journalist, copywriting etc. and graphic designer
  • 2007 winter Trent University
    • Marker English Lit (ENG100)
  • 2006 May to August Trent University
    • Research Assistant Sleep Laboratory
  • 2005-2006 Trent University
    • Classroom Facilitator ENG 205 Oshawa
    • Marker Psychology (Statistics)
  • 1991 1999 Wholesale and Retail clothing
    • Partner/ Manager / Designer
    • for Caliente Clothing
      • designing and marketing my own line of clothing
    • for Plum Loco Clothing and South Pacific
      • All aspects of running a retail chain
      • Administration, merchandising, supervising stores and warehouse, creation of clothing line
      • 5 stores, 25 employees
    • for Kettle Creek clothing
      • 10 stores, 50 employees
  • 1986 1988 Harbourfront Corporation
    • Art Director, Marketing Department graphic design and managing staff of 11 photographers, designers, signmakers
  • 1980 1986 Self Employed
  • 1988 1991 Owner/Graphic Designer
  • all aspects of running a graphics studio design, customer sales & service, managing staff and administration
  • 1974 1980 various companies
  • Skylark Tours, CMT designs, Longman Publishing, Methuen Publications, M&S Printers graphic design and pre-press preparation of artwork