@write.with.preeti
Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal: writer, facilitator, former lawyer, critical race feminist
WRITING WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
Join Find Your Flow: A Drop-In Creative Writing Workshop | March 3, March 21, April 5, April 18 | Only 10 spots! (every session sold out in 2025 so sign up early!)
Join Find Your Flow: A Drop-In Creative Writing Workshop | March 3, March 21, April 5, April 18 | Only 10 spots! (every session sold out in 2025 so sign up early!)
Connect with your voice, your stories and a fantastic community of writers! All are welcome. Sign up for one or multiple sessions.
Join Our Stories, Our Voices Creative Writing Program | Tuesdays | May 5-June 9, 2026
Join Our Stories, Our Voices Creative Writing Program | Tuesdays | May 5-June 9, 2026
A 6-week writing program for anyone who wants to build community, exercise their creativity and write! All experience levels are welcome.
SOLD OUT! Our Stories, Our Voices | Oct. 29 - Nov. 30, 2025 | 10am PST - 12pm PST | Only 10 spots (Sold out as of Sept. 19))!
SOLD OUT! Our Stories, Our Voices | Oct. 29 - Nov. 30, 2025 | 10am PST - 12pm PST | Only 10 spots (Sold out as of Sept. 19))!
A 6-week writing program for anyone who wants to build community, exercise their creativity and write! All experience levels are welcome.
CONNECT WITH PREETI
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This newsletter contains 3 short excerpts from books I've been reading, 2 craft thoughts, 1 writing prompt and a short list of upcoming workshops and/or recent publications. That's it! Once every few months. Click to read Write with Preeti, by Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
ABOUT PREETI: INTERVIEWS & BIO
Check out Preeti's website!
Check out Preeti's website!
Listen to Preeti's Interview on CBC's North by Northwest (15 mins)
Listen to Preeti's Interview on CBC's North by Northwest (15 mins)
Preeti is the 2025 Poet in Residence at Upstart & Crow!
Preeti is the 2025 Poet in Residence at Upstart & Crow!
Check out Preeti's profile at The Writers' Union of Canada
Check out Preeti's profile at The Writers' Union of Canada
Read about Preeti's creative writing workshops with McGill law students
Read about Preeti's creative writing workshops with McGill law students
When Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal, BCL/LLB’13, was a law student at McGill, maintaining a creative writing practice in community was crucial to her well-being. Today, as a critical race feminist, writer and facilitator, she is returning to the Faculty to offer students a space where they can slow down, step deeper into their voices, and honour their stories.
Read about Preeti's writing desk on TNQ: "I write where I am, on whatever surface allows."
Read about Preeti's writing desk on TNQ: "I write where I am, on whatever surface allows."
Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal reminisces on the many desks she has used, and shares her tips for creating a comfortable writing space.
Read Preeti's FIDDLEHEAD interview with Shauna Deathe
Read Preeti's FIDDLEHEAD interview with Shauna Deathe
Listen to Preeti chat with Noor Kidwai (podcast)
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Listen to Preeti chat with Noor Kidwai (podcast)
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READ SOME OF PREETI'S WRITINGS
NEW! Read "When a mortal couldn't do it, I found a god who could." a poem by Preeti (League of Canadian Poets)
NEW! Read "When a mortal couldn't do it, I found a god who could." a poem by Preeti (League of Canadian Poets)
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "When a mortal couldn't do it, I found a god who could." by Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal
Read "Cut to Exist," a poem about revolution, Sikhi and ancestral survival featured in "Schism," a special issue of the Ex-Puritan
Read "Cut to Exist," a poem about revolution, Sikhi and ancestral survival featured in "Schism," a special issue of the Ex-Puritan
Read Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal's poem "Cut to Exist" in the Schism issue of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
NEW! Read 3 of Preeti's poems in ti-TCR | 20 • The Capilano Review (2024)
NEW! Read 3 of Preeti's poems in ti-TCR | 20 • The Capilano Review (2024)
Edited by Emma Jeffrey, ti-TCR 20: On Collective Care examines the potential of art and writing to expand our capacity for empathy and care on a collective scale, and to … Continued
Read "squash and transmissible thoughts," a story written at the start of the pandemic (p.7)
Read "squash and transmissible thoughts," a story written at the start of the pandemic (p.7)
Read "Body/Home," a nonfiction piece about the body
Read "Body/Home," a nonfiction piece about the body
Read a short poem posted by 5x!
Read a short poem posted by 5x!
The latest in 5XPoetry
Watch Preeti read "Waking Up Desperate for Your Mother Tongue" (CNF)
Watch Preeti read "Waking Up Desperate for Your Mother Tongue" (CNF)
Read a personal essay: "Love doesn't trump hate. Empathy, education and care trump hate"
Read a personal essay: "Love doesn't trump hate. Empathy, education and care trump hate"
Check out Preeti's LLM Thesis: "Re-embodying jurisprudence: using theatre and multimedia arts-based methods to support critical thinking, feeling and transformation in law"
Check out Preeti's LLM Thesis: "Re-embodying jurisprudence: using theatre and multimedia arts-based methods to support critical thinking, feeling and transformation in law"
See photos of Preeti's performance art, "Re-embodying Jurisprudence"
See photos of Preeti's performance art, "Re-embodying Jurisprudence"
Watch video footage of the above performance art
Watch video footage of the above performance art
A Queer Love Story: Improvised at the TIFA LitJam Competition
A Queer Love Story: Improvised at the TIFA LitJam Competition
DONATIONS
Contribute to scholarships for Write with Preeti workshop participants
Contribute to scholarships for Write with Preeti workshop participants
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Donate — Indian Residential School Survivors' Society
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