Hannah Kuhn and Poetic Justice Write with Incarcerated Women
Hannah Kuhn, an AWA affiliate since 2023, recently wrapped up the first 9-week series of writing workshops at Coffee Creek. Coffee Creek is a women’s prison in Wilsonville, Oregon. Hannah and her co-facilitator, Maddy Clark, volunteer under the auspices of Poetic...
from USA Today, Jan. 26: Rape survivors share works of healing, self-compassion in new book
Gina Barton USA TODAY Sitting at her computer in Chicago, Mary Simmerling was supposed to be writing her Ph.D. dissertation. Instead, poetry poured out, verse after verse about the night she was raped − and trying to navigate the world in its aftermath. Simmerling...
Turning the Writing Workshop Model on its Head
Hi There! I'm the current Chair of AWA and this year I'm on a mission to try and let as many writers as possible know about this radical workshop model of AWA. To that end, an article I did was featured in Bianca Marais' substack: The Shit No One Tells You About...
Carol Good on Pandemic Writing Practice
Carol Good unboxing a copy of her book, Alive & 65 Carol Good discovered her voice and the power of poetry in a writing group working through Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way in the mid-nineties. She continued to write around the edges of her life – filled with...
Yvonne Combs on Inclusive Writing Spaces
Yvonne J. Combs Yvonne Combs is a retired Army officer and former professor of Sociology. She earned her doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of Florida. Specializing in social stratification with an emphasis on the intersections of race, class, and...
AWA News: Retreat Report
Update: We are hosting another retreat in 2019! Please join us in Las Vegas, NV from October 4–7. Sue Reynolds, organizer of AWA's Professional Development and Writing Retreat in Albuquerque, NM from October 12 – 15, 2018, shares her reflection on the event:...
Jo An Gaines Writes on a Cruise Ship
Just in time for the end of summer, Jo An shares with us her experience bringing the AWA Method to a cruise ship: When more than one hundred people signed up for one of the Famous IONS Consciousness Cruises, each cruiser was invited to submit a topic for a workshop on...
Kate Hymes Invites You to Claim Writing as Your Art
AWA Affiliate and Board Member Kate Hymes shares her work with Wallkill Valley Writers (wVw) in New York and her commitment to uplifting each writer's voice within that community. “All people are writers who can, if they so desire, claim their writing as a personal...
Gabriella Wilkerson on Woven Word Young Writers
AWA affiliate Lynn Bowmaster is the director of Woven Word Young Writers, an 18-year-old program for elementary—high school aged writers based in Hadley, MA. Woven Word Young Writers offers 3 after school workshops and Summers On The Houseboat. Gabriella Wilkerson,...
Annie Fahy Shares Her Poetry Book & Talks Writing in Social Service Settings
Long-time AWA Affiliate Annie Fahy shared with us how she became involved with the AWA method, her workshop leadership and how it intersects with her work in the mental health field, and about her new book, The Glass Train published this year by AWA Press! In her own...