AWA is back with lots of opportunities to write this Fall! Sinéad MacDevitt is facilitating our monthly online write Sunday, September 22nd from 10am-1pm PDT. We also have two four-week series of the Caregiver Project starting up this September and October. A lot of...

The AWA Board takes a break from their monthly meeting in August, but we still have a lot to offer! Kate Marshall Flaherty is facilitating a monthly online write Friday, August 9th from 10am-1pm PDT. We're scheduling Blue Pencil sessions to help support our writer...

Summer is heating up with lots of opportunities to write! Our monthly online write has a very popular leader in July, AWA Board Chair, Sue Reynolds. Join us Saturday, July 20 from 1-3pm Eastern for that. We're also launching new sessions of our Caregiver Project (8...

Thanks so much to everyone who made our Write Around the World fundraiser another rousing success! You have funded several scholarships to the AWA training program. In addition to financial support, workshop leaders receive mentorship and encouragement from AWA after...

It's almost time for AWA's biggest fundraiser of the year, Write Around the World! You can also browse all the offerings and sign up on this page. That's most of what's happening for AWA this month, except for our next Ask Me Anything AWA session for AWA Affiliates on...

The next issue of Peregrine Journal, which is focused on Caregiving, closes to submissions at the end of this month. We want to read your work! Offer up to three poems or one short piece of prose by Sunday, March 31! The closing of that submission period ushers in the...

If you're interested in receiving financial assistance to attend the AWA training program, I want you to know that our deadline to apply for financial assistance for any AWA training in 2024 is tomorrow, February 29! We are considering all requests at once this year...

This is one of the longer newsletters that I've sent in a while! So here are the highlights: AWA Press is proud to launch We've Been Put Through Fire & Come Out Divine: Stories of Hope & Survival, an anthology from survivors of sexual violence edited by Mary...

READ THE WHOLE NEWSLETTER HERE   Dear Friend, We are so grateful to every writer who joined us this year, whether it was for our monthly writes, our marathon of online offerings in May, or weekly in an AWA Affiliate's workshop series. Thanks, also, to the...

READ THE WHOLE NEWSLETTER HERE Dear Friend, First, an apology: last month, Dr. Consuelo Meux was mistakenly left off the list of What's Pressing on Our Hearts breakout room facilitators. She's an AWA Board member and an amazing facilitator. We're grateful for her work...