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, 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…
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…
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…
On November 4 of this year, Eilís Coe, a Sister of Charity and AWI Affiliate, traveled to Rome where she spent six days with the European Religious Network Against Trafficking and Exploitation. From Albania to Ireland, Sisters and their collaborators engaged in the fight to end exploitation of vulnerable people through trafficking. Eilís secured time…
This holiday season, we invite you to join us in supporting and furthering our mission to free silenced voices and to respect the artists in all writers. Please see a message from our Board of Directors below. To donate, please visit our donation page to give online or print the above form and mail your…
AWA Affiliate Madge O’Callaghan’s documentary, My Uncle Jack, has won a Gold Medal at the New York Festivals World Radio Awards. On June 20 2016, Madge accepted the award at the prestigious New York Festivals World’s Best Radio Programs Ceremony. In Madge’s own words: “The documentary tells the story of early childhood abuse, emigration and the…
VoiceFlame, a non-profit organization established by Mary Tuchscherer, teaches literacy development in girls and women in Malawi as a way to empower women and eliminate discrimination. From July 24 — August 19, 2016, Mary traveled again to Malawi for cross-country and cross-cultural journey #5. For nearly a decade, Mary has led groups of volunteers to…
October 2016 Amherst Writers & Artists Newsletter Global October Photo by Maureen Buchanan Jones Dear AWA Friends, We have well and truly Written Around the World!! AWA workshop leaders gathered writers through the weekend of October 22 & 23 from Mexico to Ireland to write and to raise scholarship funds for those who can’t afford the…
We had a fantastic time writing all weekend, October 22nd & 23rd, for our Write Around the World fundraiser. Thank you to all the workshop leaders and writers who joined us! We’ll soon have writing from the weekend to share with you, as well as the big number of how much money was raised. For…