Dear AWA friends,
Our last training of the year is full! We’ll have our 2020 schedule launched soon so if you weren’t able to be trained this year, you can make a plan to join us. For the rest of 2019, AWA affiliates have many offerings to keep you busy. Explore by location and keyword in our affiliate directory, or look by date on our Event Calendar.
Dear AWA friend,
How are you holding up in the heat this July? That is, if you’re in the northern hemisphere—for our newly trained Australian friends, how are you staying warm?
Dear AWA friend,
Why would someone do the AWA training and become a certified facilitator? A couple of months ago I got involved in several discussions—some on Facebook, one by email—about the value of becoming certified as an AWA leader.
For the next few weeks, we are sharing writing that happened during AWA’s yearly marathon fundraiser, Write Around the World. We offer this in appreciation for the workshop leaders and writers who joined together to raise money for AWA. What a vibrant celebration of the community we make when we share our words with one…
For the next few weeks, we are sharing writing that happened during AWA’s yearly marathon fundraiser, Write Around the World. This post highlights writers from Susie Whelehan’s group in Toronto, Ontario.
For the next few weeks, we are sharing writing that happened during AWA’s yearly marathon fundraiser, Write Around the World. This post includes work from B. Alexandra Kedrock’s group in Virginia.
Dear AWA friend,
I want to begin by thanking everyone who has participated in Write Around the World this month, as a writer or a workshop leader. Your passion for this work helps sustain our own.
Dear AWA friend,
I want to begin by saying thank you to all of you who’ve jumped on board to lead an AWA writing session for our “Write Around the World” fundraiser this May. This year the funds raised will be supporting a new program. AWA is implementing an initiative we’re very excited about. Working together with Suzanne Rancourt (a military veteran herself
and an AWA facilitator who already leads workshops with veterans) and Al Miller (also an AWA facilitator and a Vietnam veteran), we are launching a three-part process to create workshops for military service people and their families.
Dear AWA friend,
I have always wanted to write, since about age four. I had no notion of “writer” as a profession. There were no books in our home, but my mother had a library card. She didn’t read to her children, but my younger siblings and I witnessed her reading after she put us down for naps. She read voraciously, lost in worlds constructed by words. Her reading habits communicated strongly that books were special.
Dear AWA friend,
As I write this morning, I look out a window with green hills in the distance. February is early spring in northern California, but I check my phone app for the weather in the Jocko Valley of northwestern Montana every morning: I want to see how cold it is at home—2 degrees today.