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Dorothea Helms, a.k.a. The Writing Fairy, is a freelance writer, poet and popular writing instructor. The author of the highly successful book The Writing Fairy™ Guide to Calling Yourself a Writer, Dorothea is best known for inspiring fledgling and experienced writers through her workshops and courses, and she has served as a fiction judge for regional and international writing contests. She has been a finalist in fiction competitions, and her humorous fiction has appeared in an anthology in southern Ontario.

Dorothea’s eclectic publishing successes include poetry published in the Canadian Authors’ Association Millennium anthology, Legacy, in 1999; LICHEN Arts & Letters Preview in 2002; and Wildfire Anthology in 2006. In 2003, she placed third in The Writers’ Circle of Durham Region Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry Contest.

In 2005, Dorothea was presented with the first-ever Barbara Novak Award For Excellence in Humour and/or Personal Essay Writing from the Periodical Writers Association of Canada. Also in 2005, she tied for first place in the non-fiction category of the Haliburton Highlands Writers’ and Editors’ Network and The Agnes Jamieson Gallery 3rd Annual Writing Contest.

Dorothea also owns Write Stuff Writing Services (http://www.wsws.ca/), through which she provides freelance writing and editing services to periodicals and businesses.

What Previous Workshop Participants have said:

Thank you for an amazing, life changing course.You are an excellent teacher and I am very grateful that you are so willing to share your knowledge and experience.You enrich the lives you touch in many ways with a mixture of humour and kindness that sets an example for everyone.
- Linda Cooper

I really appreciated your positive comments and your mentorship in my early days of writing, and your great sense of fun.
- Valerie Mutton

Your writing moves me and you are an inspiration to me. Thanks. (Vicki Pinkerton)

Thank you for a great workshop! I am pumped right now … I found your session positive and empowering. (Robyne Wilock)

In my lifetime and the one after mine there will never be sufficient words in the English language to tell you how much of an impression/change you’ve made in my life. Thank you for being a teacher. Thank you for being a mentor.Most importantly, thank you for being my champion and my friend.
- Anna Therien

You are the queen of magic writing dust for your students.
- Kristen Barrett

You’ve lit such a fire under me that I sat and made lists of my own goals and how to accomplish them.
- Annette McLeod