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Sunday Webinar: Sensory Writing for the Holidays: A journey into memory and nostalgia with Amy Kelly

  • 7 Dec 2025
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Zoom

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Sensory Writing for the Holidays: A journey into memory and nostalgia 

with Amy Kelly

Member Price: $18

Non-Member Price is $28

**This event will be recorded. Registrants can access the recording for 45 days.

Workshop/Event Description

Sparkling lights, cookies warm from the oven, and the familiar melody of a favourite seasonal song. Join Amy Kelly for a special December webinar that explores the sensory power of the holiday season and how to harness it in our writing. 

Expected Takeaways

In this webinar, participants will learn to...

  • Evoke universal emotions through specific sensory details
  • Use the senses, memory, and nostalgia to connect with readers
  • Keep a sensory journal as a part of their writing practice 
  • Immerse their readers in the holiday spirit


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Intended audience:

Writers of every skill level

Bio:

Amy Kelly is a former midwife and current therapist specializing in maternal mental health. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in As The Snow Drifts: A Winter Anthology, Recipes For Romance: A Valentine's Anthology, 805 lit+ art, Scribbled, Dear Human, emerge25, and Belladonna's Garden. Her non-fiction appears in The Yummy Mummy Club and her poetry in Tiger Leaping Review. Her short story, Another Fish in the Sea, with Nicole Frail Books, was a #1 New Release for its genre on Kindle.  Amy has attended The Yale Writer's Workshop, The SFU Writer's Studio, and was selected for the McLoughlin Gardens Artist in Residency Program in 2024/2025.
When not writing or working, Amy is busy tending to animals on her hobby farm, enjoying her two wonderful neurodivergent teens, or making pottery. Her last great adventure was hiking Everest Base Camp at age 40. She hopes publishing her books will be her next.

Digital doors open at 1:55 pm, event starts at 2:00 pm


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