Bio

2024 -2025 saw Susan successfully launch Out, About & In Touch - Creative Wellbeing & Mental Health workshops highlighting the benefits of group synergy, writing , doodling, art-making, design thinking, flow and other research findings in relation to creativity and wellbeing. She is the author of three collections published by Doire Press, 2011, 2013 & 2018, Susan reads a selection from all three books here, at University of Missouri-St.Louis (Feb, 2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vno1MG2pSQE&t=13s . Her poems have appeared, among elsewhere, in: The Cafe Review, Oregan, USA - Gather In, in a Special Irish Edition; Bosom Pals,Ed Marie Cadden Doire Press, 2017) an anthology entirely in aid of Breast Cancer Research in the National UniversityHospital, Galway and When They've Grown Another Me in Poetry Ireland Review , Dec 2018.https://www.poetryireland.ie/publications/poetry-ireland-review/online-archive/view/when-theyve-grow. Online, A Late, Late Afterword was published on the Robert Garnham Professor of Whimsy website (2021), Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis, https://www.spillingcocoa.com/. Here Much to do With Poverty, More About Wealth was published on Culture Matters (Jan 2025) https://www.culturematters.org.uk/here-much-to-do-with-poverty-but-more-with-wealth/. In January 2018 her poems were Commended in the Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Competition.

She has been an invited reader of her poems at local readings in Galway, Cork and Dublin and at festivals, including the Belfast Book Festival, Cuirt International Festival of Literature and Clifden Arts Festival and her poems have been read on radio.

Susan completed her degree in social science and qualified as a professional social worker in Trinity College, Dublin 1975. She was a psychotherapist, trainer, facilitator and occasional consultant to organisations for over thirty years until her retirement in 2012. Drawing together her writing with her earlier skills she has written interviews and facilitated conversations mediated by poetry. She has also published creative non-fiction.

Her workshop Having a New Conversation: About Dreaming was listed on the The Cuirt International Festival of Literature Programme (2015) and she facilitates similar workshops on a variety of themes, discussed through the medium of poetry, regularly and occasionally in local community settings. on the east side of the country.

While a founding editor of Skylight 47 Susan interviewed: then Ireland Professor of Poetry, Harry Clifton; Kay Ryan, the Pullitzer prize-winning poet and former US Poet Laureate, invited to Ireland by Dromineer Literature Festival - and Dani Gill, who talks about curating The Cuirt International Literature Festival.https://skylight47poetry.wordpress.com/previous-issues/. Susan's interview of Maeve O'Sullivan, appeared in The Honest Ulsterman February, 2018.http://humag.co/features/around-the-world-in-poetry-haiku-and-haibun

Saturday, 2 August 2025

Creative Wellbeing & Mental Health Events Autumn 2025

                 Again in Person       

              Former & New Participants can Expect A Warm Welcome        


FREE Taster & Reconnect Event

Tues 9th September, 2-4pm


WORKSHOP, Fee €120. Eight Sessions Tues Oct - Dec 

  Oct 7th - 21st, Nov 11th - Dec 9th   2-4pm

VENUES for Both Events: Georges St Upr., Dunlaoghaire/Glasthule
Close to the People's Park. Dart, buses & car-parking close by


With Susan Lindsay

Explore creativity, writing, doodling art-making, poetry, heritage.
Enjoy the synergy gernerated. Inspirational sharing and information 
on the relationship between creativity, play, wellbeing and health.



EARLY REGISTRATION & BOOKING FOR WORKSHOP IS ESSENTIAL
both to ensure workshop is feasible and because number of places is limited.
Non-returnable: 
DEPOSIT to secure place €50.        PAYMENT IN FULL by 15TH Sept.
TO BOOK    Mail creativewellbeingsl@gmail.com



It's never too late to discover meaningful creative activity 
and the benefits of flow




 






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