by Sue Reynolds | Jan 31, 2024 | AWA News, AWA Newsletter
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...
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 26, 2024 | AWA News
READ THE WHOLE NEWSLETTER HERE Upcoming Book Launch in Partnership with RAINN Join AWA facilitators and Board Members Dr. Mary Simmerling and Dr. Meadow Jones for an online literary event celebrating the publication of We’ve Been Put Through Fire and Come Out Divine:...
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 Sue Reynolds | Dec 15, 2023 | AWA News, AWA Newsletter
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...
by Sue Reynolds | Nov 15, 2023 | AWA News, AWA Newsletter
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...