 Barbara Turner-Vesselago with her husband, Michael Vesselago |
Since 1982, Barbara has been leading highly effective FREEFALL workshops throughout the English- speaking world. She brings to the teaching of writing a unique combination of writing and teaching skills, literary knowledge, psychological expertise and insight that has made her workshops popular in centres as diverse as England's Rising Dragon Tai Chi School and the Yale University School of Medicine. An expert in modern literature, she has a PhD. from the University of Cambridge, and has taught at Girton College, Cambridge (England), University of Jos (Nigeria), and the University of Washington (US). But in 1982, after having been mentored by Canadian author W.O. Mitchell at the Banff School of Fine Arts in the Canadian Rockies, she left academia to write, and to teach writing. |
Barbara Turner-Vesselago's novel, No News But Kindness, was chosen as a finalist for the 2001 Chapters/Robertson Davies Book Prize. She is the also the author of Freefall: Writing without a Parachute (The Writing Space, 1996), and author/editor of Skelton at Sixty (The Porcupine's Quill, 1986). In 1995, she was chosen as one of six "Voices of the Nineties" to lecture on creativity at the University of Western Australia. Asked in an interview why she teaches Freefall, she responded, "I teach this way of writing because it works. And it's the only way I've ever come across that really does."
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