Community Offerings

Preeti hosts regular creative writing sessions online via Zoom for individuals looking to deepen their practice, generate new work or explore creative community care. Whether you’re here to commit to a regular practice or want to find a way to step deeper into your voice, Preeti has the right space for you. Scroll down to read more or click here to see what’s currently being offered. Note: All workshops and programs sold out in 2025 so it’s best to sign up sooner rather than later.

Connect to your voice, your story and a creative community

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“bell hooks reminds us in Teaching to Transgress that education, at its best, is rooted in liberation and love. This is the pedagogy I return to again and again in my facilitation: writing as a way of stepping into our stories and our voices, but also as a practice of community—of building relationships sustained by care and reciprocity.” — Preeti

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Explore Current & Upcoming Workshops

  • Find Your Flow: Drop-in Writing Workshops

    Find Your Flow: Drop-in Writing Workshops

    A monthly 90 minute session designed to help you find your flow and explore your stories, ideas and voice. All writing levels welcome. Sign up now or read more below.

  • Our Stories, Our Voices: Creative Writing Program

    Our Stories, Our Voices: Creative Writing Program

    A 6-week program designed to generate new work, develop your writing practice, and help you step deeper into your voice and your stories. Sign up now or read more below.

  • Our Stories, Our Voices: Revision Lab

    Our Stories, Our Voices: Revision Lab

    When is a draft complete? This 4-session series focuses on revisiting old work with fresh eyes and new editing techniques. Read more below.

  • Specialty Drop-in Workshops

    Specialty Drop-in Workshops

    Offerings created around specific moments and themes—like New Year’s reflection sessions or craft-focused deep dives. See what’s on now or read more below.

Detailed Descriptions

Creative writing drop-in workshops focused on resilience, wellness and trust-building lead by a BIPOC artist

Find Your Flow: A Monthly Drop-in Writing Workshop

Connect with your voice, your stories and a fantastic community of writers! All are welcome. Sign up for one or multiple sessions.

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  • In these 90 minute online sessions, you'll enter a facilitated space where you're invited to write with the support of prompts, techniques and strategies to dive deeper into your stories, your ideas and your voice. There will be opportunities to share your work, but never any obligations. If you're looking to exercise your creativity, great! If you don’t identify as a creative person, this is still the right place for you! Writers of all levels are welcome, but there are only 10 spots per session, so the sooner you sign up, the better (they all sold out in 2025)!


    All workshops integrate grounding and mindfulness techniques. We begin with introductions and agreements, move into freewriting, and then ground ourselves before diving into a structured writing exercise with specific prompts. As a facilitator, Preeti strives to centre your agency (i.e. you are never required to follow the prompt, perform the exercise or share your work, but will always be invited to listen to your body and make a decision that’s best for you).

Creative Writing Studio lead by a BIPOC writer and Poet

Our Stories, Our Voices: Creative Writing Program

A 6-week writing program for anyone who wants to build community, exercise their creativity and write! All levels welcome.

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  • Imagine having time each week to step deeper into your voice, your creativity and your stories with support and in community. Our Stories, Our Voices is a 6-week workshop designed to help you develop different techniques to find your flow and express your ideas. This program usually runs 3 times/year and space is limited! Only 10 spots/program.

    Features include:

    • Weekly facilitated sessions with guided exercises (2 hours)

    • A 20-minute one-on-one consultation for tailored feedback

    • A final session where participants can share their work in a collective reading

    This program will help you:

    • generate new work

    • develop and/or maintain a consistent writing practice

    • build community with other writers

    • strengthen your relationship to your creativity

    • step deeper into your voice

    • honour your lived experiences

    • enhance your sensory and critical lenses

    • develop a toolkit of techniques that support your creative practice

    • express your inner world, desires, needs and complexity

    • uncover new ideas and exercise your imagination

    • reduce stress and develop body awareness

    • learn more about your stories and what you want to write

    • reinvigorate a current writing practice by discovering new entry points, inspirations, or pathways through creative blocks

    What to expect:

    Each week, you will enter a facilitated space with community agreements, invitations to write and opportunities to share your work. Sessions will focus on creative writing, and also include experiential and mindfulness activities, as well as exercises that help you find your flow and step into the creative part of your brain. Participants will be invited to respond directly to a prompt during freewriting exercises. Later, we will read a piece of writing together and draw inspiration from that source, alongside optional prompts.

    At the end of each session, you will have a piece of writing that you can keep working on or choose to tuck away. While there is no "homework," you will be given optional prompts between each session as part of developing your writing practice. As a facilitator, Preeti strives to centre your agency (i.e. you are never required to follow the prompt, perform the exercise or share your work, but will always be invited to listen to your body and make a decision that’s best for you).

    The final workshop is an in-session reading. Prior to the reading, you will have the opportunity to meet with Preeti for a 20-minute 1-on-1 Zoom session to discuss a specific piece of writing, craft, next steps, or a selected reading.

    What this workshop isn’t: 

    Please note, this is not a weekly writing “class” where you edit and workshop pieces, but rather a place where you explore and express your experiences and feelings, or fictional stories, through writing. This is a generative writing series. The goal is not production and publication, but rather process, introspection and creation. Having said that, the 1-on-1 session can be used to discuss edits and publication! And many past participants have gone on to publish or keep working on their memoirs, poetry collections, children's books, etc. And for writers who want to work on editing, shaping and craft, check out Our Stories, Our Voices — Revision Lab (below)!

    Cost: $325-500 USD Sliding Scale (Fair Value $450 USD). CAD rates available on request.

Creative writing revision lab lead by South Asian writer focused on refection and resilience

Our Stories, Our Voices: Revision Lab (coming soon!)

Focused revision with support in community.

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  • OSOV Revision Lab is about returning to what you’ve already written: gathering your drafts, strengthening them and learning how to shape them into finished pieces. This series runs for four weeks with a break at the halfway point to give you space to revise, revisit and experiment with the techniques learned up until that point.

    Whether you have dozens of drafts scattered across notebooks and notes apps or a small handful of pieces you’re longing to complete, this series offers the structure, tools, and community to help you move your work forward.

    Each week we will look at one aspect of craft and explore one revision technique. We will also do various freewriting exercises to ensure sure we are keeping our writing muscle flexible and poised, and leaving the door open for change. This program will likely only run once in 2026.


    This workshop is for writers who:

    • struggle to know when a piece is “done”

    • write regularly but rarely return to edit or revise

    • feel unsure about where to begin with editing

    • have writing spread across notebooks, documents and notes that they’ve never compiled

    • want accountability and gentle structure to keep moving through their work

    • want to learn or deepen craft techniques (such as enjambment, caesura, line breaks, titling poems, organizing a poem on the page, shaping multiple drafts)

    • want feedback that is supportive, clear and grounded in both craft and care

    • want to practice revision without feeling overwhelmed or lost in their own material

    This course isn’t focused on publication, but we will talk about it and your work can get closer to that stage if that’s your intention. The primary goal is helping you understand what your piece wants to be, and how to guide it there.

    What this workshop includes:

    • 4 facilitated sessions (2 hours each) with a one week break at the halfway mark (so that you have time for integration and revisions)

    • Craft discussions on editing, technique, voice and decision-making

    • In-session exercises on shaping drafts, interrogating choices, and exploring alternatives

    • Two optional assignments for written feedback from Preeti. Each assignment includes a first draft, your revised draft and a process paragraph (up to 300 words) describing what you tried, changed, or questioned. Assignments are submitted via Google Drive and are completely optional but a great way to build accountability and momentum.

    • Examples and excerpts from diverse poets and writers whose work demonstrates a range of craft techniques, approaches to revision, and ways of shaping a piece through multiple drafts

    • A supportive writing community to accompany you through the revision process

    By the final session, you will have:

    • a clearer understanding of your writing process

    • new tools for shaping and revising poems

    • a more grounded sense of how to recognize when a piece is complete

    • a few pieces that have moved meaningfully forward

Specialty drop-in workshops lead by BIPOC South Asian writers for writing, facilitation, craft, and more

Specialty Drop-in Workshops:

Specialty workshops for specific days or themes, such as New Year’s Reflective Writing or Pantoum Deep Dive, offered throughout the year.

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  • Reflect. Reset. Envision.

    These annual drop-in workshops are an invitation to slow down during a busy season and take stock of the year that’s passed before rushing into the next one. Through guided prompts, reflective writing and shared conversation, participants are supported in naming what they’re carrying forward, what they’re leaving behind, and what they want to imagine next.

    What they offer:

     • Time to pause, imagine & reflect
    • Prompts to help you remember 2025 with intention
    • Space to imagine 2026 with gentleness (not pressure)
    • A supportive, creative community
    • Invitations to settle into your body so you can write with clarity

    These sessions are especially for folks who struggle to find time to pause during the holidays or who want a gentle, structured way to reflect and set intentions. 

    Format: Drop-in workshops
    Focus: Reflection, intention-setting, creativity, and community
    Cost: $25-50 USD Sliding Scale
    All writing levels welcome

  • Ready to geek out over craft? Craft Studio sessions are single, focused 3-hour workshops for writers who want to spend time with one specific element of poetry. Each session is built around 2–3 pre-selected poems and/or a short craft essay, giving us a shared language to think, talk and write with. Participants will move between discussion, guided exercises and hands-on writing, with space to revise an old piece or start something new.

    Topics range from enjambment v. end-stopped lines, caesura (silence, rupture, breath), white space and fragmentation, syntax play, punctuation (or the refusal of it), repetition and refrain, compression v. expansion, sound and musicality, to different poetic forms such as the pantoum or duplex. Writers may have the option to submit a piece within five days of the workshop for limited, constructive feedback (via Google doc).

    Format: One 3-hour workshop

    Focus: One clearly defined craft element (listed on Eventbrite)

    Runs: Once every few months; announced throughout the year

    Cost: $50-100 USD for the course alone; option to schedule schedule a 20 minute 1-on-1 with Preeti at the end of the course at a reduced fee when the course is done.

Words from the community…

  • “I am most grateful for this opportunity to be part of this session. I truly didn’t want it to end! I must write more, and I wish to write a little something -even everyday. Haw’aa! Hychgaa!! Osiem!! Thank you!!”

    – Kungjaadee Kennedy, Our Stories, Our Voices writer-participant

  • “I learned how one word, one phrase, or one sentence can open your memories. I felt inspired as a writer. I loved to see young women so empowered and talented.”

    – Marcia Lopez, Our Stories, Our Voices writer-participant

  • “I'm learning about how writing is necessary when doing liberation work - having the outlet to feel, to process, to make sense of, to grieve, to be vulnerable, to hope, to dream - feels like a nourishing gift.”

    —  Namrata, Our Stories, Our Voices: Liberation Edition

  • “I learned that I have a creative energy and can express myself freely when given the space. I learned that I like to have the communal space in which to do that. I learned that I CAN write. I DO have a sense of poetic rhythm and capacity."

    —  Hussein, Our Stories, Our Voices: Liberation Edition

  • “The activities and writing practices/excerpts Preeti prepared each session really resonated with me. I found my voice evolving with each passing week. This was the first time I shared work and I know that it was made possible through this workshop.”

    – Mel, Our Stories, Our Voices writer-participant

  • “I absolutely loved hearing everyone's voices and stories. The space you held made me and everyone else (I think) feel safe enough to be vulnerable. When we are allowed to speak our deepest truths and hear the deepest truths of others is where true transformation can happen.” 

    - Ashley Downend, Our Stories, Our Voices writer-participant

  • “I appreciated Preeti's reminder to write about topics that we had the capacity to delve into at that time, as I am trying to be more intentional about that in my writing practice. I learned that it is possible to lead with integrity as a writing workshop facilitator.”

    - Krystal Kavita Jagoo, Our Stories, Our Voices writer-participant

  • “I discovered the quiet magic of writing in a shared space, where collective intention and group energy can spark words into life—even in brief bursts. I carry with me the truth that creativity can be a shared flame, and I want to keep exploring how that light deepens my writing.”

    – Jessica Singh, Our Stories, Our Voices writer-participant

  • “I have learnt the power of writing in community- it opened up other layers of writing that went beyond what I was familiar with. I have learnt that I can write from a place of joy, and belonging and in conversation with mundane happenings of my day. I am carrying the lightness of this practice with me.” 

    – Claire Louiae, Our Stories, Our Voices writer-participant

  • “I learned that I don't need to be in great pain to write a good story or poem. This helped me exercise my writing muscle and I am so much more confident to pick up a pen at any given moment and write!! This mindset shift is helping me resume my journey as a poet!”

    – Tarin Shultana Oli Ahmed, Our Stories, Our Voices writer-participan

  • “Preeti has such a warm, welcoming presence. The way she holds space for everyone to share and support each other's work is really special. I am continually in awe of what each person shares. I also find the prompts each session are so different and really help stretch and push me as a writer!” 

    – Kat, Write with Preeti: Find Your Flow workshop participant

  • “These sessions spark creativity in me. Writing can be a solitary pursuit. The sessions give me the opportunity to connect with and learn from others”

    – Andrew Burton, Write with Preeti: Find Your Flow workshop participant

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • For drop-in sessions and Our Stories, Our Voices (OSOV) Creative Writing Program, just bring yourself, your writing tools (computer, notebook or tablet), and a willingness to try new things. Prompts and pre-reading may be provided for specialty craft workshops and OSOV Revision Lab.

    • My linktree is always up-to-date with current offerings.

    • You can also follow me on Instagram @write.with.preeti where I share my workshops and other community events.

    • You can join my mailing list using the button at the top of this page.

    • You can follow me on Eventbrite to receive an email each time I publish a new offering (usually once every few months).

  • Yes, there is 5% GST on top of all program costs.

  • Zoom live transcription is available for most sessions (60–80% accurate). Prompts and time checks can also be placed in the chat. Unfortunately, ASL interpretation is not currently available.

    Many writers who self-identify as neurodivergent (particularly those with ADHD and/or who are on the spectrum) return to my workshops again and again. My sessions include grounding, structure without rigidity, gentle prompts, predictable pacing and an atmosphere where participants can engage in the ways that work best for them (i.e. moving, doodling, pausing their cameras or taking breaks when needed). You never need to mask or perform “focus” here.

  • Our Stories, Our Voices: Creative Writing Studio includes a 20-minute one-on-one. Some specialty workshops offer optional post-session feedback. For more in-depth guidance, stay tuned for Preeti’s Poetry Consultation & Mentorship offerings. In the meantime, you can contact her directly if you have further questions.

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