Vicki Pinkerton offered a Write Around the World group on May 14. Thank you to Vicki and to the writers who shared!
Voices Around the World: Diana Damato
Diana Damato offered a Write Around the World group on May 22. Thank you to Diana and to the writer who shared!
Yvonne Combs on Inclusive Writing Spaces
Yvonne Combs is a retired Army officer and former professor of Sociology. She earned her doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of Florida. Specializing in social stratification with an emphasis on the intersections of race, class, and gender, she taught courses in Sociology. Retiring from academia Yvonne, who won a statewide writing contest at…
Celebrating #AWAhonorsPat!
Thank you so much to our amazing community who have been sharing stories on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. We know some of your aren’t users of social media, so we wanted to collect all the posts here too. Scroll down to see what people have been sharing—we’ll keep adding to this page as more people…
Voices Around the World: Laurel Karry
Laurel Karry offered a Write Around the World group on May 28. Thank you to Laurel and to the writers who shared! Both writers gifted us with poems.
Voices Around the World: Loren MccRory
Loren MccRory offered a Write Around the World group on May 21. Thank you to Loren and to the writers who shared! Their work is response to two different prompts: an image and the invitation to “reteach a thing its loveliness.”
Honoring Pat Schneider
Pat Schneider, the founder of AWA, passed away on August 10, 2020. This post on our blog is a memorial to her. Please share your stories and photos of Pat in the comments.
Voices Around the World: Susie Whelehan
Susie Whelehan offered a Write Around the World group early in the month, May 12. Thank you to Susie and to the writers who shared! Their work is response to the prompt, “What I want to remember from this time.”
Voices Around the World: Joanne Brown
Joanne Brown wrote with cancer survivors on May 16 and in a group open to everyone on May 30.
Voices Around the World: Summer Hardinge and Lisa Colburn
Summer Hardinge and Lisa Colburn chose the theme, In Praise of Poetry. Four different writers share their work and the prompts that inspired it!