Launchpad groups are designed to help AWA affiliates get their dreams off the ground! Whatever your writing- or workshop-related goal—to lead your first workshop, to expand your offerings, to get a book published—this series will help you make progress. You’ll join a small group of AWA affiliates for peer resource-sharing and problem-solving. For more information, read about our take on the Mastermind model.

This group will be led by Louise Bierig biweekly on Fridays starting January 5th.

Plan to meet on six Fridays from 10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Pacific / 1:00–3:30 p.m. Eastern: January 5, 19; Feb 2, 16; March 1, 15.

Louise Bierig grew up on Lake Erie where she began writing at a young age. Currently, she leads the Lansdowne Writers’ Workshop and is certified to use the Amherst Artists & Writers Method (AWA). She is writing a novel titled Zane Anderson, LMFT, PsyD, as well as several short stories. Her short story, The Anderson Family Motto, was published in Toho Publishing’s The Best Short Stories of Philadelphia 2021. Her other pieces have appeared in Mayday Magazine, shortédition, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Philadelphia Stories, Peregrine Journal, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Louise is a 1997 graduate of The University of Iowa’s Undergraduate Writers’ Workshop.