Pat Schneider, the founder of AWA, passed away on August 10, 2020. This post on our blog is a memorial to her. Please share your stories and photos of Pat in the comments.
Voices Around the World: Susie Whelehan
Susie Whelehan offered a Write Around the World group early in the month, May 12. Thank you to Susie and to the writers who shared! Their work is response to the prompt, “What I want to remember from this time.”
Voices Around the World: Joanne Brown
Joanne Brown wrote with cancer survivors on May 16 and in a group open to everyone on May 30.
Voices Around the World: Summer Hardinge and Lisa Colburn
Summer Hardinge and Lisa Colburn chose the theme, In Praise of Poetry. Four different writers share their work and the prompts that inspired it!
Voices Around the World: Nicole R. Zimmerman
Nicole generously shares the prompts she used during her session, so you can write along at home!
AWA Newsletter: May 2020
I have been so moved by the response to Write Around the World, our month-long marathon of donation-based, online writing sessions. Our aim this year was to help, to bring people together to experience the liberation and healing of the AWA method, rather than to raise a specific amount. For that reason, we set variable donation levels—some writers attended for as little as $1.
AWA Newsletter: April 2020
Latter from guy howard klopp: “Yes, I really do write my name in all lower case letters—perhaps it is an affectation or maybe just a core belief I have to accomplish great deeds to deserve capitalization.”
AWA Newsletter: March 2020
AWA leaders across the country are taking their offerings online to make writing together accessible during this time of isolation. Workshop leaders, if you have an online offering, please post it to our Event Calendar!
AWA Newsletter: February 2020
Dear AWA Friends,
The AWA Board had a great time meeting up over video-conference for a series of planning sessions. It was a wonderful way to get to know and orient our new members, Andrea and Guy. They’ll both be introducing themselves in future newsletters. Since we’re happily immersed in AWA’s big picture, we’d love to continue the conversation with you.
AWA Newsletter: January 2020
Dear AWA Friends,
Here we are in 2020! Our year-end fundraiser was a success. Thanks to the generous contributions of our community, we matched our donor’s grant and raised over $6000. We are grateful to be supported by such thoughtful, creative writers and readers.