“The most successful and pleasurable writing comes from being in a state of wonder. Finding that fine balance between will and surrender; between skill and letting the pen run free, is when the magic happens.”
Winner of the Writer’s Union of Canada’s Prose Contest in 2016, Susan Wadds’ work has appeared in carte blanche, The Blood Pudding, Room, Quagmire, Waterwheel Review, Funicular Review, and many more. The first two chapters of her debut novel, What The Living Do (Regal House Publishing 2024) won Lazuli Group’s Prose Contest, and were published in Azure Magazine. A graduate of the Humber School for Writers, Susan is a certified Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) workshop facilitator.
As a settler once married to an Ojibwe man with whom she has a son, for thirty years Susan has been immersed in Indigenous culture and tradition. She is particularly interested in identity, as in, What makes us who we are?
She lives on a quiet river on Williams Treaty land in South-Central Ontario with an odd assortment of humans and cats.
She would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council’s Recommender Grants’ Program to complete the novel One Way Home, currently on submission.
It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes.
