by Kate Frank | Feb 27, 2024 | Affiliate News, Workshop News
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...
by Sue Reynolds | Jan 26, 2024 | Affiliate News, AWA News
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...
by Sue Reynolds | Jan 19, 2024 | Affiliate News, AWA News
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...
by Kate Frank | Jun 23, 2021 | Affiliate News
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...
by Kate Frank | Jan 15, 2021 | Affiliate News
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...
by Kate Frank | Nov 29, 2018 | Affiliate News, AWA News
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...
