Services

GRANT HELP

Brief written feedback or a full read of your entire grant application for the following literary grants:

  • Canada Council for the Arts: Research and Creation / Professional Development
  • Ontario Arts Council: Literary Creation Projects (Works for Publication) / Recommender Grants for Writers
  • Access Copyright: Professional Development / Marian Hebb Research Grant

Or ask me anything in a one-hour Zoom call!

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COACHING

One-hour calls where we can talk about: 

  • creative nonfiction craft and ethics
  • healing through writing
  • how to revise large manuscripts
  • submission strategies for literary journals
  • mindset work for writers
  • and more!

Recording and transcript included.

Optionally, you may submit up to five pages of your essay or memoir chapter. Please send these in a Word file, double-spaced and in Ariel, size 12 font. 

Does not include grant help.

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WORKSHOPS

I can deliver workshops or be a guest speaker on topics such as:

  • Healing through writing
  • How to apply to grants and how to deal with rejection
  • Writing about disabilies such as being hard of hearing
  • Hermit crab essays: What are they and how to get started?

For more information and pricing, send me a message on my contact page, and I will respond within 14 days.

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Questions?

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Testimonials

Yolande is a keen writer and a sensitive, trauma-informed writing coach. She knows how to hold space for you and your writing projects, which she will expertly help you transform.

Lisa Cooper Ellison

Writing Coach and Instructor

Oh my gosh, Yolande. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I was so lost in the weeds with those alternating sections to the point that I wanted to just shelve this essay, but you’ve given me the perfect feedback I needed at this stage to keep working on this beast. Much, much thanks. 
Rowan McCandless

Author of the award-winning PERSEPHONE'S CHILDREN: A LIFE IN FRAGMENTS; CNF Editor of The Fiddlehead

I so recommend taking Yolande’s fabulous workshop!!! It gave me great insights into the creative process for tough subjects. Yolande provided not only a safe space to write from a place of trauma during the workshop (which was such a nourishing experience), but she also walked us through ways to physically ground ourselves through breathing exercises and protective rituals that can help us tap into tough stories. I so recommend working with her! 
Erin B.

Workshop participant

I’ve shared your piece on how to write about trauma in a safer way with many writer friends. It’s wise and compassionate and full of caring advice for people writing from traumatized bodies & souls need to think about.
Eufemia Fantetti

Author of MY FATHER, FORTUNE TELLERS, AND ME; Editor at the Humber Literary Review

Yolande is an experienced and published writer. I, on the other hand, am making a transition from years of technical writing to fiction and memoir. Yolande has been a good source of course information, resources, and guidance to me during the early stages of my journey. Her experience can be of great value to other writers as well.
Mario Gaspacho

Writer

I’ve just completed the third day of writing briefly and privately about trauma based on Yolande’s coaching, and I feel 100% supported in the process. I’m generating work that feels honest and yes, emotional, but also restorative.
Britton M.

Workshop participant