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Neurotica : Writing the Erotic for the Neurotic with Dr. Meadow Jones

Online

Neurotica: Writing the Erotic for the Neurotic Or how to write about our bodies gleefully, even when we might experience them fearfully. This six week writing workshop will invite writing and art around the sexual, sensual, intimate and playful. Designed for those of us who are just a little inhibited, as well as for those […]

Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free
Event Series Illuminating Your Story

Illuminating Your Story

Online

Join emerging and established writers on Zoom, once a week for six weeks, to explore what makes your story tick. In our small 12-person cohort, you'll build a robust foundation for your story using our tried-and-tested approach with built-in craft exercises, targeted prompts, and accountability techniques. By the final session, you’ll have acquired the tools […]

Event Series Story Tending Writing Circle

Story Tending Writing Circle

Online

The Story Tending Writing Circle is a space for wild, wise, deeply feeling women to write what needs to be written. We are grown women, luxuriating in the privilege of not being ignored, misunderstood, or made invisible. Each week, we help each other love our voices into existence, we immerse ourselves in poetry, LISTEN to each other […]

Event Series Story Tending Writing Circle

Story Tending Writing Circle

Online

The Story Tending Writing Circle is a space for wild, wise, deeply feeling women to write what needs to be written. We are grown women, luxuriating in the privilege of not being ignored, misunderstood, or made invisible. Each week, we help each other love our voices into existence, we immerse ourselves in poetry, LISTEN to each other […]

$303
Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free
Event Series Creative Sphere Wednesday Workshop

Creative Sphere Wednesday Workshop

Online

We could all use a creative boost by the time Wednesday rolls around…. Join us for an invigorating, midweek workshop designed to spark your creativity. In this AWA workshop, you will write freely and copiously in response to unique prompts, receive supportive, thoughtful feedback from fellow participants, and leave inspired by the new work you’ve […]

“Writing with the Trees of Childhood” – 8-Wk Online Workshop

Online

In this 8-week online workshop we will: create Tree Memory Maps, accessing powerful memories of trees from childhood. This will be the raw material we will use during the workshop, & we will dialogue with these trees, asking them to share healing stories from childhood. create Body Memory Maps, attempting to locate these stories in […]

$290.00
Event Series Open Prompt Workshop with Deepam

Open Prompt Workshop with Deepam

Online

This two-hour workshop is for writers at all levels of confidence and expertise. Various prompts give each writer both inspiration and freedom to write the words they need to write. I welcome all written forms. You will write, read, & listen deeply while painlessly honing your writing craft Participation is limited to 6 to allow […]

$27.

“Jump into your Hero’s Journey Story” 10-Wk Online Workshop

Online

In this workshop we will: Create Mind & Body Memory Maps, accessing places within us that need to be healed. Choose one of these scenes to begin our Hero's Journey story. Locate our hero and establish her in the Ordinary World. Discover & Develop a Mentor & a  Special World. Make our way through all […]

$350.00
Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free
Event Series Wild Writes

Wild Writes

Online

These two-hour workshops are all about having fun. Together, we’ll write to prompts meant to help you loosen up and expand creatively. After a few timed writes, we’ll share our work (if you choose) and respond to each other with supportive feedback. This group might be for you if you’re feeling stuck, if you want […]

$25

Suzanne S. Rancourt & Judith Prest Writing Workshop, Book Launch, Reading & Open Mic!

Mocha Lisa's Caffe & Books 22 Clifton Country Road, Clifton Park, NY, United States

Join Suzanne S. Rancourt and Judith Prest in celebrating the release of their 4th books! Two different writers, books, and styles! Writing workshop: 12 - 2pm $35. (workshop attendees receive a 10% discount on food, merch, BOOKS.) Book signing, eat, shop free of charge. 2-3pm; Featured Authors read: 3-3:30pm; Open mic: 3:30 - 4:30pm. Accessible to […]

Event Series Creative Sphere Sunday Workshop

Creative Sphere Sunday Workshop

Online

Start your Sunday with a creative boost…. Join us for an invigorating Sunday workshop designed to spark your creativity. In this AWA workshop, you will write freely and copiously in response to unique prompts, receive supportive, thoughtful feedback from fellow participants, and leave inspired by the new work you’ve created. This AWA workshop is for […]

Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free

Stick Season Writing: Prompts for Slowing Down

Online

Our senses come alive in late fall. We can see deeper into the forest, hear the crunch of leaves under our feet, feel the warmth of the first fire in the woodstove, and mmmm, the pumpkin spice! This four-week writing workshop is for writers in any genre at any level of experience. We'll write to […]

$100
Event Series Story Tending Writing Circle

Story Tending Writing Circle

Online

The Story Tending Writing Circle is a space for wild, wise, deeply feeling women to write what needs to be written. We are grown women, luxuriating in the privilege of not being ignored, misunderstood, or made invisible. Each week, we help each other love our voices into existence, we immerse ourselves in poetry, LISTEN to each other […]

Event Series Story Tending Writing Circle

Story Tending Writing Circle

Online

The Story Tending Writing Circle is a space for wild, wise, deeply feeling women to write what needs to be written. We are grown women, luxuriating in the privilege of not being ignored, misunderstood, or made invisible. Each week, we help each other love our voices into existence, we immerse ourselves in poetry, LISTEN to each other […]

$303

Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free
Event Series Creative Sphere Wednesday Workshop

Creative Sphere Wednesday Workshop

Online

We could all use a creative boost by the time Wednesday rolls around…. Join us for an invigorating, midweek workshop designed to spark your creativity. In this AWA workshop, you will write freely and copiously in response to unique prompts, receive supportive, thoughtful feedback from fellow participants, and leave inspired by the new work you’ve […]

Event Series InvisABILITY

Writing for Recovery

Online

From How it Works : We got this all down on paper and looked at it. (p.69 BB). Over and over again the book tells us that we must put it down on paper, to “place them before us in black and white”. But for so many of us, and so much of the time […]

Free

The Caregiver Project – Four-Week Series

Online

Reclaiming Your Life – Supporting Your Self Dates:  November 1, 8, 15 and 29 Wednesdays from 1- 3 ET/ 12-2 CT/ 11-1 MT/ 10-12 PT You know you should take care of yourself - in a plane emergency they say, "put your own oxygen mask on first"—but in this situation it just feels impossible. You're shouldering […]

$80.00

“Writing with the Trees of Childhood” – 8-Wk Online Workshop – 6:30-9pm

Online

In this 8-week online workshop we will: create Tree Memory Maps, accessing powerful memories of trees from childhood. This will be the raw material we will use during the workshop, & we will dialogue with these trees, asking them to share healing stories from childhood. create Body Memory Maps, attempting to locate these stories in […]

$290.00

invisABILITY with Dr. Meadow Jones

Online

This workshop aims to document and explore the diverse aspects of visible and invisible disabilities, chronic pain and chronic illness in both documentary and performative ways. The setting is carefully designed with care to be inclusive, emphasizing safety and supportiveness for all participants. Through a combination of writing exercises, group discussions, and practice in Disability […]

Event Series Open Prompt Workshop with Deepam

Open Prompt Workshop with Deepam

Online

This two-hour workshop is for writers at all levels of confidence and expertise. Various prompts give each writer both inspiration and freedom to write the words they need to write. I welcome all written forms. You will write, read, & listen deeply while painlessly honing your writing craft Participation is limited to 6 to allow […]

$27.

“Jump into your Hero’s Journey Story” 10-Wk Online Workshop

Online

In this workshop we will: Create Mind & Body Memory Maps, accessing places within us that need to be healed. Choose one of these scenes to begin our Hero's Journey story. Locate our hero and establish her in the Ordinary World. Discover & Develop a Mentor & a  Special World. Make our way through all […]

$350.00
Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free

3-Week Once Upon A SoulCollage®: Fairytales As Paths To Inner Wisdom

Online

Unlock the enchanting world of self-discovery through the fusion of expressive writing, SoulCollage®, and the timeless magic of fairytales in this delightful 3-part workshop. Join us on a captivating journey as we excavate inner wisdom by harnessing the power of imagery, intuition, and imaginative writing. Is This For Me? This workshop series is open to […]

$105

Using Strange Words to Inspire Unusual Writing

Online

Words are a writer's currency. Add to your stash in this workshop, where we'll explore a wide variety of lost, unusual, and untranslatable words, transforming them into inspiration for extraordinary writing. We'll experience how playing with and employing these words and their meanings can take our writing in new, different, and unexpected directions, resulting in […]

Event Series Creative Sphere Wednesday Workshop

Creative Sphere Sunday Workshop

Online

Start your Sunday with a creative boost…. Join us for an invigorating Sunday workshop designed to spark your creativity. In this AWA workshop, you will write freely and copiously in response to unique prompts, receive supportive, thoughtful feedback from fellow participants, and leave inspired by the new work you’ve created. This AWA workshop is for […]

Launchpad Group with Margaret O’Brien

Online

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, […]

Free
Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free

Monday Night Writers: Holiday Session

Online

Write around the holidays with Lansdowne Writers' Workshop! Monday Night Fall Session starts Monday, November 6, 2023! We will be meeting on zoom on November 6, 13, 20, 27; December 4, 11, 18 from 7-9PM Eastern. Cost = $210. for seven-week session and includes one manuscript review. Whether you’ve been writing for years, just want […]

$210.
Event Series Story Tending Writing Circle

Story Tending Writing Circle

Online

The Story Tending Writing Circle is a space for wild, wise, deeply feeling women to write what needs to be written. We are grown women, luxuriating in the privilege of not being ignored, misunderstood, or made invisible. Each week, we help each other love our voices into existence, we immerse ourselves in poetry, LISTEN to each other […]

Launchpad Group with Vicki Pinkerton

Online

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, […]

Free
Event Series Story Tending Writing Circle

Story Tending Writing Circle

Online

The Story Tending Writing Circle is a space for wild, wise, deeply feeling women to write what needs to be written. We are grown women, luxuriating in the privilege of not being ignored, misunderstood, or made invisible. Each week, we help each other love our voices into existence, we immerse ourselves in poetry, LISTEN to each other […]

$303
Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free
Event Series Creative Sphere Wednesday Workshop

Creative Sphere Wednesday Workshop

Online

We could all use a creative boost by the time Wednesday rolls around…. Join us for an invigorating, midweek workshop designed to spark your creativity. In this AWA workshop, you will write freely and copiously in response to unique prompts, receive supportive, thoughtful feedback from fellow participants, and leave inspired by the new work you’ve […]

Event Series InvisABILITY

Writing for Recovery

Online

From How it Works : We got this all down on paper and looked at it. (p.69 BB). Over and over again the book tells us that we must put it down on paper, to “place them before us in black and white”. But for so many of us, and so much of the time […]

Free
Event Series Wild Writes

Wild Writes

Online

These two-hour workshops are all about having fun. Together, we’ll write to prompts meant to help you loosen up and expand creatively. After a few timed writes, we’ll share our work (if you choose) and respond to each other with supportive feedback. This group might be for you if you’re feeling stuck, if you want […]

$25

“Writing with the Trees of Childhood” – 8-Wk Online Workshop – 6:30-9pm

Online

In this 8-week online workshop we will: create Tree Memory Maps, accessing powerful memories of trees from childhood. This will be the raw material we will use during the workshop, & we will dialogue with these trees, asking them to share healing stories from childhood. create Body Memory Maps, attempting to locate these stories in […]

$290.00

Affinity Online Write: BIPOC with Stephanie Curry

Online

This is an opportunity to experience the AWA Method online, offered by AWA each month. During the two hours, you’ll write on the spot to a prompt or two provided by the facilitator. Then, you’ll break into small, facilitated groups to read your writing aloud if you’d like. Writing that is shared will receive positive, […]

Free – $20.00
Event Series Open Prompt Workshop with Deepam

Open Prompt Workshop with Deepam

Online

This two-hour workshop is for writers at all levels of confidence and expertise. Various prompts give each writer both inspiration and freedom to write the words they need to write. I welcome all written forms. You will write, read, & listen deeply while painlessly honing your writing craft Participation is limited to 6 to allow […]

$27.

“Jump into your Hero’s Journey Story” 10-Wk Online Workshop

Online

In this workshop we will: Create Mind & Body Memory Maps, accessing places within us that need to be healed. Choose one of these scenes to begin our Hero's Journey story. Locate our hero and establish her in the Ordinary World. Discover & Develop a Mentor & a  Special World. Make our way through all […]

$350.00

AWA Leadership Training Online

Online

The AWA Group Leadership Training is an intensive course focused on instructing individuals in the AWA method. It is not a writing retreat. This training prepares people to lead groups for the general population and for traditionally silenced people in places such as public housing, shelters, hospitals or prisons. AWA Leadership is learned by experiencing […]

$500.00
Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free
Event Series Open Prompt Workshop with Deepam

Open Prompt Workshop with Deepam

Online

This two-hour workshop is for writers at all levels of confidence and expertise. Various prompts give each writer both inspiration and freedom to write the words they need to write. I welcome all written forms. You will write, read, & listen deeply while painlessly honing your writing craft Participation is limited to 6 to allow […]

$27.

BLOW THE DOORS OFF writers reading book launch event! Suzanne S. Rancourt, Carol Graser, Mike Jurkovic, Judith Prest!

Spotty Dog Books & Ale 440 Warren Street, Hudson, NY, United States

Why is it important to attend accomplished readers reading from their own work? To learn how to project your own work with confidence, empathy, tone, and style. Four well published writers launching books and their audience into the power of words.  You will want to get there early. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson, […]

Event Series Post-Certificate Trainings

Post-Certificate Training: Prose Craft

Online

On November 11th, our topic is prose craft. Join us to learn more about prompts, exercises, and responses that support the fiction or non-fiction of your workshop members. If you are interested and have questions or challenges related to this topic that you'd like to discuss, please register below. To join, you will need access […]

Free

“Wild Writing in the Wetlands” In-Person Workshop, Chelsea, MI

Wellspring Wetlands, Chelsea, MI Chelsea, MI, United States

In this workshop we will: Create Mind & Body Maps, pulling scenes from memory. Pick a scene and an object within it, and cluster them on the page, locating them in our bodies. Walk across the wetlands and out into the forest. Hand our scene/object over to the wetlands forest and ask for its wisdom […]

$150.00
Event Series Creative Sphere Wednesday Workshop

Creative Sphere Sunday Workshop

Online

Start your Sunday with a creative boost…. Join us for an invigorating Sunday workshop designed to spark your creativity. In this AWA workshop, you will write freely and copiously in response to unique prompts, receive supportive, thoughtful feedback from fellow participants, and leave inspired by the new work you’ve created. This AWA workshop is for […]

Getting Your Memoir Started – Moving Memories onto the Blank Page

Online

We will meet every Monday at 10 a.m Atlantic time online ( Zoom) The cost is $100 Canadian for four 90-minute sessions. Dates are November 13- December 11th.  Email julie.snair@acadiau.ca to register. We all have stories from the past we are hoping to share but where do we begin? Starting a memoir can be overwhelming […]

Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free
Event Series Story Tending Writing Circle

Story Tending Writing Circle

Online

The Story Tending Writing Circle is a space for wild, wise, deeply feeling women to write what needs to be written. We are grown women, luxuriating in the privilege of not being ignored, misunderstood, or made invisible. Each week, we help each other love our voices into existence, we immerse ourselves in poetry, LISTEN to each other […]

Event Series Story Tending Writing Circle

Story Tending Writing Circle

Online

The Story Tending Writing Circle is a space for wild, wise, deeply feeling women to write what needs to be written. We are grown women, luxuriating in the privilege of not being ignored, misunderstood, or made invisible. Each week, we help each other love our voices into existence, we immerse ourselves in poetry, LISTEN to each other […]

$303
Event Series 6-Session Open Prompt Series

6-Session Open Prompt Series

Online

We'll leap from varied and unique prompts, images, poems, and situations into stories, essays, and poems. Together, we'll explore the many ways our writing can shine. Sharing freshly generated writing with an intimate group provides a safe space to experiment, take risks, and have fun, while painlessly honing your craft. You can participate in any […]

$27. – $145.
Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free
Event Series Creative Sphere Wednesday Workshop

Creative Sphere Wednesday Workshop

Online

We could all use a creative boost by the time Wednesday rolls around…. Join us for an invigorating, midweek workshop designed to spark your creativity. In this AWA workshop, you will write freely and copiously in response to unique prompts, receive supportive, thoughtful feedback from fellow participants, and leave inspired by the new work you’ve […]

Event Series InvisABILITY

Writing for Recovery

Online

From How it Works : We got this all down on paper and looked at it. (p.69 BB). Over and over again the book tells us that we must put it down on paper, to “place them before us in black and white”. But for so many of us, and so much of the time […]

Free

Hidden Gems: Finding the Gifts of Presence

Online

“The point of power is always in the present moment.” — Louise Hay Hone in on the power of the present moment in this experiential 90-minute zoom workshop. With powerful prompts, guided meditation, and the creation of a collaged card to inspire our writing, we’ll focus on noticing and recognizing the small instances of joy […]

Free!

“Writing with the Trees of Childhood” – 8-Wk Online Workshop – 6:30-9pm

Online

In this 8-week online workshop we will: create Tree Memory Maps, accessing powerful memories of trees from childhood. This will be the raw material we will use during the workshop, & we will dialogue with these trees, asking them to share healing stories from childhood. create Body Memory Maps, attempting to locate these stories in […]

$290.00
Event Series Open Prompt Workshop with Deepam

Open Prompt Workshop with Deepam

Online

This two-hour workshop is for writers at all levels of confidence and expertise. Various prompts give each writer both inspiration and freedom to write the words they need to write. I welcome all written forms. You will write, read, & listen deeply while painlessly honing your writing craft Participation is limited to 6 to allow […]

$27.
Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free

Open Prompt Workshop with Deepam

Online

This two-hour workshop is for writers at all levels of confidence and expertise. Various prompts give each writer both inspiration and freedom to write the words they need to write. I welcome all written forms. You will write, read, & listen deeply while painlessly honing your writing craft Participation is limited to allow for lots […]

$27.

Artist Salon, reading and more w/ Suzanne S. Rancourt

Bookburgh Books Champlain Center 60 Smithfield Blvd, Plattsburgh, NY, United States

Each artist's process is unique to their own journey, life odyssey and culture.  During this Artist Salon style reading, join Suzanne in the telling of her newest book, Songs of Archilochus, Unsolicited Press.  Learn of the Lands she has travelled and how that land birthed stories.

Free
Event Series Creative Sphere Wednesday Workshop

Creative Sphere Sunday Workshop

Online

Start your Sunday with a creative boost…. Join us for an invigorating Sunday workshop designed to spark your creativity. In this AWA workshop, you will write freely and copiously in response to unique prompts, receive supportive, thoughtful feedback from fellow participants, and leave inspired by the new work you’ve created. This AWA workshop is for […]

Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free
Event Series Monday Online Writes

Online Write with Kimberly Lee

Online

This is an opportunity to experience the AWA Method online, offered by AWA each month. During the two hours, you’ll write on the spot to a prompt or two provided by the facilitator. Then, you’ll break into small, facilitated groups to read your writing aloud if you’d like. Writing that is shared will receive positive, […]

Free – $20.00
Event Series 6-Session Open Prompt Series

6-Session Open Prompt Series

Online

We'll leap from varied and unique prompts, images, poems, and situations into stories, essays, and poems. Together, we'll explore the many ways our writing can shine. Sharing freshly generated writing with an intimate group provides a safe space to experiment, take risks, and have fun, while painlessly honing your craft. You can participate in any […]

$27. – $145.
Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free
Event Series InvisABILITY

Writing for Recovery

Online

From How it Works : We got this all down on paper and looked at it. (p.69 BB). Over and over again the book tells us that we must put it down on paper, to “place them before us in black and white”. But for so many of us, and so much of the time […]

Free

“Writing with the Trees of Childhood” – 8-Wk Online Workshop – 6:30-9pm

Online

In this 8-week online workshop we will: create Tree Memory Maps, accessing powerful memories of trees from childhood. This will be the raw material we will use during the workshop, & we will dialogue with these trees, asking them to share healing stories from childhood. create Body Memory Maps, attempting to locate these stories in […]

$290.00
Event Series Open Prompt Workshop with Deepam

Open Prompt Workshop with Deepam

Online

This two-hour workshop is for writers at all levels of confidence and expertise. Various prompts give each writer both inspiration and freedom to write the words they need to write. I welcome all written forms. You will write, read, & listen deeply while painlessly honing your writing craft Participation is limited to 6 to allow […]

$27.
Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free

Women Writing As a Spiritual Practice (6-Week Circle)

Online

As we approach the holiday season, there may be mixed emotions such as joy, grief, excitement, sadness and perhaps a desire to pause and reflect on our lives.  This 6-week circle is an opportunity to show up as you are and be companioned.  Gather with spiritually-minded women for connection, exploration and reflection through writing to […]

$19 – $114

November AWA Generative Writing Workshop with Lauren

Online

This is a generative writing workshop using the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) method, where you'll write new pieces based on prompts (or whatever you feel like writing), followed by reading and responses that only identify what's working or what resonates with readers in your writing (no critique!). This workshop is for all levels of writers, […]

$45
Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free

Writing the Past | A Four-Week Workshop

Online

Memoirist Sue William Silverman writes in her craft book, Fearless Confessions, that memoir involves the connection between the voice of experience and the voice of innocence. We’ll write to a variety of prompts to bring these voices together with insight and respect. We’ll meet via Zoom for two hours each week in a four-week cycle: Nov […]

$140.00

Thanks, I Guess

Online

Take stock of what you’ve got — or wish for — in this post-Thanksgiving 3-hour workshop on ZOOM. We’ll use its title, borrowed from the Herstry blog’s November issue, as a refrain, a lament, or an ironic twist on gratitude. Invite your writing to the page as we experiment with a variety of prompts to […]

$60.00

Creative Writing & Feng Shui Workshop

East Wind Otawa 361 Richmond Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Join poet Mary Simmerling and Feng Shui Master Maggie Huang in Ottawa for an exciting and inspiring event combining the art of creative writing with the ancient practice of Feng Shui. This unique workshop will take place on Tuesday November 28, 2023 at East Wind located at 361 Richmond Road, Ottawa, ON K2A 0E7. Are you interested in or passionate about […]

Free
Event Series 6-Session Open Prompt Series

6-Session Open Prompt Series

Online

We'll leap from varied and unique prompts, images, poems, and situations into stories, essays, and poems. Together, we'll explore the many ways our writing can shine. Sharing freshly generated writing with an intimate group provides a safe space to experiment, take risks, and have fun, while painlessly honing your craft. You can participate in any […]

$27. – $145.
Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free
Event Series Creative Sphere Wednesday Workshop

Creative Sphere Wednesday Workshop

Online

We could all use a creative boost by the time Wednesday rolls around…. Join us for an invigorating, midweek workshop designed to spark your creativity. In this AWA workshop, you will write freely and copiously in response to unique prompts, receive supportive, thoughtful feedback from fellow participants, and leave inspired by the new work you’ve […]

Event Series InvisABILITY

Writing for Recovery

Online

From How it Works : We got this all down on paper and looked at it. (p.69 BB). Over and over again the book tells us that we must put it down on paper, to “place them before us in black and white”. But for so many of us, and so much of the time […]

Free

“Writing with the Trees of Childhood” – 8-Wk Online Workshop – 6:30-9pm

Online

In this 8-week online workshop we will: create Tree Memory Maps, accessing powerful memories of trees from childhood. This will be the raw material we will use during the workshop, & we will dialogue with these trees, asking them to share healing stories from childhood. create Body Memory Maps, attempting to locate these stories in […]

$290.00
Event Series Open Prompt Workshop with Deepam

Open Prompt Workshop with Deepam

Online

This two-hour workshop is for writers at all levels of confidence and expertise. Various prompts give each writer both inspiration and freedom to write the words they need to write. I welcome all written forms. You will write, read, & listen deeply while painlessly honing your writing craft Participation is limited to 6 to allow […]

$27.

The Caregiver Project – Special Workshop for RAINN Staff and Volunteers

Online

Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) is proud to partner with the US based nonprofit RAINN (Rape and Incest National Network). As part of this partnership, AWA will be hosting a number of Caregiver Project writing workshops specifically designed for RAINN staff and volunteers who provide free, confidential, and around the clock support to the more than 800 people who reach out for […]

$20.00

Free Your Creativity: Using Constraints to Generate New Writing

Online

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by play.”—Carl Jung For a creative twist, some writers impose unique conditions on their work as they craft a piece. Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham on a bet—that he couldn’t write an entire book using only 50 words. Or imagine trying […]

Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

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Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free

The Fab Five: Writing With the Senses

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We live on the leash of our senses.—Diane Ackerman Powerful writing stimulates the senses, allowing us to fully immerse ourselves in the scene the writer has created. Infusing our pages with imagery evoking scent, touch, taste, hearing, and sight leads to a multi-dimensional experience that stays with us. In this workshop, we’ll use creative prompts […]

Event Series Creative Sphere Wednesday Workshop

Creative Sphere Sunday Workshop

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Start your Sunday with a creative boost…. Join us for an invigorating Sunday workshop designed to spark your creativity. In this AWA workshop, you will write freely and copiously in response to unique prompts, receive supportive, thoughtful feedback from fellow participants, and leave inspired by the new work you’ve created. This AWA workshop is for […]

Event Series Write Yourself Alive

Write Yourself Alive

Online

Do you feel most alive when your writing practice is flourishing (i.e., when you're writing every day with focus and intention)? Do you start feeling anxious when you're unable to find the time to write? Do you ever wonder what you could accomplish if you had even one hour a day to: commit to your […]

Free