AWA Affiliate and Board Member Kate Hymes shares her work with Wallkill Valley Writers (wVw) in New York and her commitment to uplifting each writer’s voice within that community. “All people are writers who can, if they so desire, claim their writing as a personal art form.” –Pat Schneider Every human being has a story…
Those of you who attended our AWA Conference in 2015 will likely remember the wonderful Open Mic spearheaded by Emily Savin. If you weren’t there, it was a night in which AWA workshop leaders came together to share their poems and stories as a community. Names were called off a long list that had been…
AWA affiliate Lynn Bowmaster is the director of Woven Word Young Writers, an 18-year-old program for elementary—high school aged writers based in Hadley, MA. Woven Word Young Writers offers 3 after school workshops and Summers On The Houseboat. Gabriella Wilkerson, a Woven Word writer and rising 10th grader at Northampton High School, describes the…
Long-time AWA Affiliate Annie Fahy shared with us how she became involved with the AWA method, her workshop leadership and how it intersects with her work in the mental health field, and about her new book, The Glass Train published this year by AWA Press! In her own words: I took my first AWA workshop…
In this final edition of our series, we are sharing writing that happened during AWA’s marathon weekend of writing workshops, Write Around the World. This is one way we are celebrating the AWA-certified workshop leaders & writers who joined together to raise money in support of AWA. Thank you to those who shared their voices…
The idea to create a writers group came to Desiree after she saw a presentation on the AWA Method at Antioch University. Barbara Simpson had been practicing the method in her own workshop, Suncoast Writers, and was sharing the experience with her fellow grads at Antioch. The AWA method really resonated with Desiree since she…
Kate Marshall Flaherty has written with mentor Sue Reynolds at her AWA Method Sanctuaries for over a decade, wrote with AWA founder Pat Schneider in Buckhorn Ontario several years ago, and was certified in the first Canadian AWA Method Training with Maureen Buchanan and Sue Reynolds the following year. She is excited that she and…
For the next few months, we are sharing writing that happened in fundraising workshops, Write Around the World. This is one way we are celebrating the AWA-certified workshop leaders & writers who joined together to raise money in support of AWA. Thank you to those who shared their voices in each workshop and especially to…
Green Windows was born after Peggy Simmons went to see Pat Schneider and the movie Tell Me Something I Can’t Forget at the Pacific School of Religion in 2007. Peggy had been writing in groups using the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) method for a few years, and had met Pat and seen this movie…
For the next few months, we are sharing writing that happened in fundraising workshops, Write Around the World. This is one way we are celebrating the AWA-certified workshop leaders & writers who joined together to raise money in support of AWA. Thank you to those who shared their voices in each workshop and especially to…