Greetings AWA friends!
Where the bijiminies does the time go? In January of 1999 I attended a sample AWA writing workshop during my MFA residency led by Patricia Lewis. This was a life changing event as I instinctively resonated with the method, the practice(s) that honored myself as an Artist.
Dear AWA friends,
As promised, we’ve launched the AWA training schedule for 2020. As of now, there are two locations confirmed with a third training still in the works.
Dear AWA friends,
Our last training of the year is full! We’ll have our 2020 schedule launched soon so if you weren’t able to be trained this year, you can make a plan to join us. For the rest of 2019, AWA affiliates have many offerings to keep you busy. Explore by location and keyword in our affiliate directory, or look by date on our Event Calendar.
Dear AWA friend,
How are you holding up in the heat this July? That is, if you’re in the northern hemisphere—for our newly trained Australian friends, how are you staying warm?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.