“Since I started leading workshops in 2005, it has been endlessly satisfying to help hundreds of adults discover the writer within themselves,” says AWA Affiliate Marian Calabro. Marian’s workshops take place in her native New Jersey, mainly at the Adult School of Montclair and in private groups. While there is no typical participant, many “night…
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…
Amherst Writers & Artists Press is pleased to announce the winners of the Sixth Annual Pat Schneider Poetry Contest 1st prize awarded to James K. Zimmerman of Pleasantville, NY James K. Zimmerman will receive the $1,000 prize and his winning poem, ”Wild Mushrooms,” will be published in Peregrine, a forum for national and international writers since…
Market Street Writers, led by AWA Affiliate Lisa Colburn, offers AWA Method workshops and retreats in Virginia and Maryland. Lisa is a leader of Amherst Writers Capital Region, an organization of AWA leaders concentrated in the Washington DC area. She seems to be a natural connector, whether that means she is partnering with other workshop…
Born and raised in the mountains of West Central Maine, AWA Affiliate Suzanne Rancourt’s story is unique. Her rural, woodland upbringing offered her the experiential framework that is now the paradigm from which she draws endless resources. Whether working with artists/recipients, survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury, other life altering traumatic events, or people living with…
In the next few months, 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 in each…
For the next few months, 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 in each…
Aaron Zimmerman founded NY Writers Coalition Inc. (NYWC) a remarkable 15 years ago after attending the AWA training program in 2001. Today, NYWC is one of the largest community-based creative writing programs in the world. They partner with public and private institutions, social service agencies, and social justice organizations to provide unique, empowering ongoing weekly creative writing…
Jen Cross shares with us her path to writing with sexual trauma survivors and founding Writing Ourselves Whole. She also offers an announcement of some exciting publication news. In her own words: Writing saved my life. Isn’t that true for so many of us? If I hadn’t had that outlet back when I was 20 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…