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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
AWA’s Professional Development and Writing Retreat returns this fall! The theme for this year’s retreat is “The Power of Writing Together,” and we’ll gather AWA-certified leaders (anyone who has attended the AWA Training Program) both in-person and online. Visit this page of our website for more information or REGISTER NOW to join us at Jericho House […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ekphrasis an evolution “Mitchell then suggests ekphrastic hope is the next step in an evolving understanding of an ever-evolving term. Ekphrastic hope opposes the indifference in a moment of inspiration or metaphor or imagination where the gap between the verbal and the visual is somehow closed by a means that can only be described as […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
The focus of this six week workshop is not on reliving traumatic events, but on using the complex experiences of living as content for writing. You will be encouraged to be gentle with yourself and to approach the process with curiosity and compassion. We will create a safe and nurturing space where you can feel […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ekphrasis an evolution “Mitchell then suggests ekphrastic hope is the next step in an evolving understanding of an ever-evolving term. Ekphrastic hope opposes the indifference in a moment of inspiration or metaphor or imagination where the gap between the verbal and the visual is somehow closed by a means that can only be described as […]
Suzanne is one of the featured readers at this event with new books to launch! Songs of Archilochus, Unsolicited Press, fresh off the press!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Making Sense of the Sensorial Using a combination of Expressive Arts and Amherst Writers & Artists methods, we’ll dive into deep current metaphor practices that engage readers, and each other with the Natural World. Participants learn refreshing strategies that awaken our senses and hone our craft. Simple, experiential, and human. All skill levels and genres […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ekphrasis an evolution “Mitchell then suggests ekphrastic hope is the next step in an evolving understanding of an ever-evolving term. Ekphrastic hope opposes the indifference in a moment of inspiration or metaphor or imagination where the gap between the verbal and the visual is somehow closed by a means that can only be described as […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“The body offers deep truths all its own.”—Stephen Kuusisto and Ralph James Savarese In this highly generative, four-week online workshop, we’ll get in touch with how the body impacts our writing—and vice versa. We’ll explore and discuss the work of writers who have effectively used the body as a source of inspiration, then craft our […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Are you… -An empty nester and/or the parent of a teen, college student, or young adult who is becoming more independent -Looking for an inspiring, empowering way to navigate this stage with enthusiasm and confidence -Seeking to embrace this new phase of life with vitality, purpose, resilience, and connection Join with kindred spirits and like […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Ekphrasis an evolution “Mitchell then suggests ekphrastic hope is the next step in an evolving understanding of an ever-evolving term. Ekphrastic hope opposes the indifference in a moment of inspiration or metaphor or imagination where the gap between the verbal and the visual is somehow closed by a means that can only be described as […]
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 […]
This day-long workshop is for those who would like to begin a project or have one in progress and are looking for an immersive experience with longer writing times. Visual, situational, and poetic prompts stimulate stories and poems in unexpected and rewarding ways. Rich feedback allows us to view our work in an atmosphere of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ekphrasis an evolution “Mitchell then suggests ekphrastic hope is the next step in an evolving understanding of an ever-evolving term. Ekphrastic hope opposes the indifference in a moment of inspiration or metaphor or imagination where the gap between the verbal and the visual is somehow closed by a means that can only be described as […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ekphrasis an evolution “Mitchell then suggests ekphrastic hope is the next step in an evolving understanding of an ever-evolving term. Ekphrastic hope opposes the indifference in a moment of inspiration or metaphor or imagination where the gap between the verbal and the visual is somehow closed by a means that can only be described as […]
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 […]