In her writing Atma Frans searches for the voice beneath her personas: woman, mother, trauma survivor, architect, queer, yogi, poet. Her poems have been finalists for contests and are published internationally including in Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, Understorey Magazine, The Dalhousie Review, Prairy Fire Magazine, Chiron Review, Obsessed with Pipework, Lighthouse Literary Journal. She lives on the traditional territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people (Gibsons, B.C.)
Reading from poems and prose published in literary magazines in Canada and abroad.
Healing Psyche, a Writing Journey: We will explore parts of ourselves that we have rejected, lost or abandoned. Through a process of mindfulness, creative writing and play we will welcome renewal into our lives. We will use writing as a means to develop an inner witness, to cultivate within oneself the capacity for compassion, understanding, and deep listening. In this workshop we will halt our busy lives to create a stillness where writing becomes a dialogue with one self: while our hand writes another part within us listens. We can release words from our depths, and give a voice to aspects of our identity that do not fit within the expectations we previously held about ourselves, as well as to qualities or passions that we’ve lost over time.
