Our Story
Dreamers Creative Writing is dedicated to writing that is from the heart.
Throughout human history, storytelling has been the thread that binds what is good about humanity together. But look at contemporary life and culture—doesn’t it feel like we’ve lost our way? Like we’ve dropped the threads of our story? We need to find methods for encouraging understanding and empathy across borders, cultures, environments and genders in order to reestablish the emotional connection that makes us who we are. Because if what is happening now is a true reflection of our species, then what kind of future are we facing? We need to dream, write, speak and live a better story.
We need to dream, write, speak, and live a better story.
Kat McNichol, Editor-in-Chief, Dreamers
We take our name from a lecture published in 1908, called “Creative Writers and Daydreaming” where Freud compared dreaming to art. He writes, “A piece of creative writing, like a daydream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood”. He goes on to say that “myths, legends and fairy tales” are the “wishful fantasies of whole nations, the secular dreams of youthful humanity”.
Our business name also has personal meaning for our Editor-in-Chief and Founder, Kat McNichol. When Kat was a teenager, her dad owned Dreamers Gallery, a small art gallery based in Lion’s Head, Ontario.
Read the whole story. in the blog post “Writing Dreams, Rewriting Life,” by Dreamers’ Editor-in-Chief, Kat McNichol.
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Kat McNichol
Owner, Founder, Editor-in-Chief
Kat holds a B.A. in English Literature, and an MAIS in Writing and New Media, and Literary Studies. She is completing a PhD in Social Science at the University of Tilburg where she is using autoethnography and writing as method to research the impact that therapeutic writing has on career identity.
Kat founded Dreamers in late 2017 and she hasn’t looked back since.
Kat has spent the 20+ years writing marketing copy for the high-tech industry. Her creative and academic writing has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, journals and anthologies.
Ryan Clark
General Manager, Marketing-Communications
Ryan is the Dreamers Jack-of-all-trades, from general operations management, to video production, website design, and social media marketing.
As a board member and event coordinator for Open Minds Respect Events, Ryan coordinated spoken word and poetry events. He is also a former Editor of Big B Publishing, and he worked as a Sound Engineer and Music Instructor for the electronic music studio Musicboxx.
When he’s not taking care of his home and family, Ryan is a multimedia DJ and producer of 3D music videos and virtual reality.
Carole Mertz
Book Review Editor
Phil McNichol
Reviewer, Contest Judge
Colleen McNichol
First Round Reviewer
Reinekke Lengelle
Haiku Contest Judge
