What do YOU want from WordLabs?

As we launch this new program, we want to hear from our community. What classes would you love to see being offered?

What skills do you want to hone, and what challenges do you want to tackle? What genres are you writing in?

What is holding you back from the writing practice you want to have?

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Welcome to Wordlabs Writing Workshop Program!

We offer workshops by writers in our community for writers (of all levels) in our community.

Writing is more than a basic skill — it’s a powerful form of expression. From songs to stories, personal reflections to professional communication, writing helps us articulate ideas, connect with others, and build confidence.

Start or continue your writing journey by exploring our workshops.

Check this space for workshop announcements and other details coming soon!

In the meantime, fill out our survey, sign up for our newsletter, and explore our roster of instructors

wordlabs launch

Tuesday, June 24 | 7pm - 9pm

Join us for our FREE launch event and instructor meet and greet. Tour the classroom space and take part in an informal round-table chat about the value of creative writing with Bruce Kauffman, Adrian Michael Kelly, Jermaine Marshall, Aric McBay, and Wilding on Tuesday, June 24.

Doors + Tour 7 - 7:30 pm | Round-Table Talk 7:30 - 8:30 pm | Mingle + Sign-up 8:30 - 9 pm

Our Funders

The Value of Creative Writing

Life-long Learning and Growth

Fostering a growth mindset can make you a better problem-solver and more resilient when faced with challenges. Carol Dweck, Stanford University professor of psychology and author of the book Mindset, explains that people with a growth mindset focus on learning from mistakes and welcoming challenges rather than thinking they’re doomed to be dumb or unskillful. A growth mindset goes hand in hand with self-compassion: recognizing that everyone struggles and treating ourselves with kindness when we trip up.

LAnd Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that WordLabs and Kingston Literacy & Skills (KL&S) operates as an uninvited guest upon the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Anishinabek Nation and Huron-Wendat peoples. We are grateful to be able to work, learn, and teach on these lands.

To acknowledge this traditional territory is to recognize its long history, one predating the establishment of the earliest European colonies. It is also to recognize this territory’s significance for the Indigenous Peoples who lived, and continue to live, upon it and whose practices and spiritualities were and are tied to this land.

KL&S joins the community in remembering the victims and honouring the survivors of residential schools across Turtle Island. We extend our sympathies to Indigenous communities affected by this tragedy. This serves as a stark reminder of the need to recognize our troubled past and present and is an urgent reminder for all Canadians to work towards truth and reconciliation. We pledge that within our mission of education that we will share and acknowledge Indigenous stories and identities.