by Kate Frank | Jan 30, 2017 | Affiliate News
916 Ink empowers students in the Sacramento region with creative writing, thereby developing strong readers and inspired writers who lead a higher quality of life due to increased literacy skills and improved academics. The organization, founded by AWA Affiliate Katie...
by Kate Frank | Jan 30, 2017 | Affiliate News
AWA Affiliate and Board Member Bisi Ideraabdullah has a wealth of inspiring work to share. In addition to her powerful work with Imani House (described below), Bisi has run a writing workshop for women of color in NYC since 1999. She has edited and published an...
by Kate Frank | Dec 27, 2016 | Affiliate News
AWA Affiliate Vicki Pinkerton shared the following account with us. We are grateful to her for offering this writing and for helping us expand the communities into which the AWA Method has reached. “I facilitate writing groups near my home in Southern Ontario....
by Kate Frank | Dec 27, 2016 | Affiliate News
Mary Kim Kaylor, AWA Affiliate, leads an AWA workshop at Oregon State Hospital, a high–security psychiatric hospital with the vision to provide hope, promote safety and support recovery for all. As an Occupational Therapist and AWA Affiliate, she provides writing...
by Kate Frank | Dec 27, 2016 | Affiliate News
The Story House Ireland was founded in 2014 by AWA Affiliate Margaret O’Brien with Nollaig Brennan. Unique in Ireland, it provides residential writing courses open to anyone who wishes to write. TSH is a fusion of the work of Pat Schneider (USA), founder of AWA,...
by Kate Frank | Nov 30, 2016 | Affiliate News
On November 4 of this year, Eilís Coe, a Sister of Charity and AWI Affiliate, traveled to Rome where she spent six days with the European Religious Network Against Trafficking and Exploitation. From Albania to Ireland, Sisters and their collaborators engaged in the...