Akin Stockyards member Charlotte Van Ryn (she/her) has experience writing and editing grants for the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Charlotte has also assisted many artists with applications for residencies including those for the Banff Centre for the Arts, the RBC Painting Competition and Newcomer Award, Nuit Blanche, artist bios, press releases, CV’s, as well as many other applications. 

Services: Charlotte can either edit any copy you’ve written, provide you with feedback and specific edits, or help you write something from scratch (which takes more time). 

Contact: To reach out to Charlotte and book a free consultation, visit www.charlottevanryn.com or email cvrgrants@gmail.com  

Akin Member Rate: $40.00/hour 

Newcomer/English as a second language rate: $40.00/hour

General Public Rate: $50.00/hour 

About Charlotte Van Ryn

Charlotte Van Ryn (she/her) is a fiction writer, editor and Studio Manger at Akin Stockyards. She studied at the University of King’s College in Halifax and African Studies at the University of Ghana. She’s published stories in Broken Pencil Magazine, Words (on) Pages and won the 2016 Blodwyn Memorial Prize for Fiction. She co-hosted The Listening Party, a popular Toronto reading series. A freelance editor with specialization in grants and applications, she began her experience by trading grant writing for artwork from her Akin studio. You can find her walking her hound Ruby in High Park and working on her novel, Deep Blue.