For the next few weeks, we are sharing writing that happened during AWA’s weeklong marathon 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…
Voices Around the World: Writing Alive! in Oregon
For the next few weeks, we are sharing writing that happened during AWA’s weeklong marathon 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…
Leaders Write Around the World 2017
We are so grateful to the writing workshop leaders who are joining us to Write Around the World! To help us raise money, leaders are offering a marathon of writing groups from October 15 – 21. We asked these leaders what inspires their generosity and they told us: “I love AWA workshops because they allow…
Jo An Gaines Writes on a Cruise Ship
Just in time for the end of summer, Jo An shares with us her experience bringing the AWA Method to a cruise ship: When more than one hundred people signed up for one of the Famous IONS Consciousness Cruises, each cruiser was invited to submit a topic for a workshop on board or even better…
Kate Hymes Invites You to Claim Writing as Your Art
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…
Voices of AWA: Videos of Writers Reading Their Work
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…
Gabriella Wilkerson on Woven Word Young Writers
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…
Annie Fahy Shares Her Poetry Book & Talks Writing in Social Service Settings
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…
Voices Around the World: Write on the Boulevard
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…
Desiree Kannel Leads Rose Writers in Long Beach
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…