Dear AWA friend,
Why would someone do the AWA training and become a certified facilitator? A couple of months ago I got involved in several discussions—some on Facebook, one by email—about the value of becoming certified as an AWA leader.
AWA Newsletter: May 2019
Dear AWA friend,
I want to begin by thanking everyone who has participated in Write Around the World this month, as a writer or a workshop leader. Your passion for this work helps sustain our own.
AWA Newsletter: April 2019
Dear AWA friend,
I want to begin by saying thank you to all of you who’ve jumped on board to lead an AWA writing session for our “Write Around the World” fundraiser this May. This year the funds raised will be supporting a new program. AWA is implementing an initiative we’re very excited about. Working together with Suzanne Rancourt (a military veteran herself
and an AWA facilitator who already leads workshops with veterans) and Al Miller (also an AWA facilitator and a Vietnam veteran), we are launching a three-part process to create workshops for military service people and their families.
AWA Newsletter: March 2019
Dear AWA friend,
I have always wanted to write, since about age four. I had no notion of “writer” as a profession. There were no books in our home, but my mother had a library card. She didn’t read to her children, but my younger siblings and I witnessed her reading after she put us down for naps. She read voraciously, lost in worlds constructed by words. Her reading habits communicated strongly that books were special.
AWA Newsletter: February 2019
Dear AWA friend,
As I write this morning, I look out a window with green hills in the distance. February is early spring in northern California, but I check my phone app for the weather in the Jocko Valley of northwestern Montana every morning: I want to see how cold it is at home—2 degrees today.
AWA Newsletter: January 2019
January is ebbing fast, and I can’t say I’m sorry. I’m trying to gaze past our human turmoil, across the short, but bleak, weeks of February, to the light of spring.
The strengthening AWA community is a bright spot here and on the horizon, and your board and staff are well into preparation and planning for 2019 and beyond. Maureen, as training director, and Katie, as managing director, are, as always, our bedrock. Board officers for 2019–2020, elected in December 2018, are me (Lane Goddard) as chair; Sue Reynolds as vice-chair and treasurer, and Vicki Pinkerton as secretary.
AWA Newsletter: December 2018
“It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness.”
—Anaïs Nin
AWA Newsletter: August 2018
INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Letter from Rachelle Parker; Online Workshops; Retreat News; Regional News; Training News; Founder’s Message; Affiliate Classifieds; Donation News.
July 2018: Hold Fast to Dreams
INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Letter from Kate Hymes; Regional News; Training News; Affiliate News; Founder’s Message; Affiliate Classifieds. July 2018 “Hold fast to dreams…” —Langston Hughes, Dreams Dear AWA friends, At present, academia has a stranglehold on what is American literature. Too few writers rise up from community writing groups to have their work honored and…
June 2018: Full Bloom
INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Letter from Kathleen Olesky; Professional Development and Writing Retreat; Training News; Regional News; Founder’s Message; Affiliate Classifieds. June 2018 Dear AWA community, The pink rhododendron outside the Walker Center is in full bloom. The blue jays chase the sparrows off the bird feeder. The chipmunks catch the fallen seeds. Maureen and…