Carol Good discovered her voice and the power of poetry in a writing group working through Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way in the mid-nineties. She continued to write around the edges of her life – filled with family, “billable work”, too many cats, a house in constant need of repair, continuing education and community volunteering…
Yvonne Combs is a retired Army officer and former professor of Sociology. She earned her doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of Florida. Specializing in social stratification with an emphasis on the intersections of race, class, and gender, she taught courses in Sociology. Retiring from academia Yvonne, who won a statewide writing contest at…
Update: We are hosting another retreat in 2019! Please join us in Las Vegas, NV from October 4–7. Sue Reynolds, organizer of AWA’s Professional Development and Writing Retreat in Albuquerque, NM from October 12 – 15, 2018, shares her reflection on the event: We lodged at the beautiful Bosque Retreat Center in the river valley that runs…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Kate Marshall Flaherty has written with mentor Sue Reynolds at her AWA Method Sanctuaries for over a decade, wrote with AWA founder Pat Schneider in Buckhorn Ontario several years ago, and was certified in the first Canadian AWA Method Training with Maureen Buchanan and Sue Reynolds the following year. She is excited that she and…
Green Windows was born after Peggy Simmons went to see Pat Schneider and the movie Tell Me Something I Can’t Forget at the Pacific School of Religion in 2007. Peggy had been writing in groups using the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) method for a few years, and had met Pat and seen this movie…