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…
Katie McCleary & 916 Ink Write with Youth
916 Ink empowers students in the Sacramento region with creative writing, thereby developing strong readers and inspired writers who lead a higher quality of life due to increased literacy skills and improved academics. The organization, founded by AWA Affiliate Katie McCleary in 2011, has affected the lives of many young people. From their website: We have published…
Bisi Ideraabdullah Writes with Women of Color
AWA Affiliate and Board Member Bisi Ideraabdullah has a wealth of inspiring work to share. In addition to her powerful work with Imani House (described below), Bisi has run a writing workshop for women of color in NYC since 1999. She has edited and published an anthology of writing from that community, Voices of Brooklyn:…
Voices Around the World: Ireland
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…
AWA Newsletter: December in Our Hands
Voices Around the World: St Gabriel’s
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…
Vicki Pinkerton on Writing in the Arctic Circle
AWA Affiliate Vicki Pinkerton shared the following account with us. We are grateful to her for offering this writing and for helping us expand the communities into which the AWA Method has reached. “I facilitate writing groups near my home in Southern Ontario. When Yukon College approached me, asking me to travel 200km north of the…
Mary Kim Kaylor Writes in a Psychiatric Hospital
Mary Kim Kaylor, AWA Affiliate, leads an AWA workshop at Oregon State Hospital, a high–security psychiatric hospital with the vision to provide hope, promote safety and support recovery for all. As an Occupational Therapist and AWA Affiliate, she provides writing groups to adults who are recovering from mental illness. Her groups include both male and…
Margaret O’Brien on Ireland’s The Story House
The Story House Ireland was founded in 2014 by AWA Affiliate Margaret O’Brien with Nollaig Brennan. Unique in Ireland, it provides residential writing courses open to anyone who wishes to write. TSH is a fusion of the work of Pat Schneider (USA), founder of AWA, and John Moat (UK), founder of The Arvon Foundation, and is…
AWA Newsletter: Stellar November
November 2016 Amherst Writers & Artists Newsletter Stellar November Dear Friends of AWA, It’s easy to feel like we are lost in a crowd, one of many and indistinguishable from our billions of fellow human beings. But we are, each of us, quite unique. We are each glowing in our particular way. In this edition…