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...
Newsletter for December 2023
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...
Affiliate Newsletter for November 2023
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...
Bulletin From the Board: Appreciative Inquiry
AWA's Board Vice Chair Kate Marshall-Flaherty generously shares this about our strategic retreats: Although I have been a Board member for over four years, this is my first “Bulletin from the Board," a brilliant idea that came out of last year’s Board retreat, when we...
Update to the AWA Method, Introduced by Maureen Buchanan Jones
At AWA’s 2021 workshop leader retreat, Maureen Buchanan Jones delivered this talk on the new sixth Essential Practice of the AWA method. It is titled “Talk on Listening: ‘I listen, drinking in’” after a quote from Pat Schneider.
Celebrating #AWAhonorsPat!
Thank you so much to our amazing community who have been sharing stories on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. We know some of your aren't users of social media, so we wanted to collect all the posts here too. Scroll down to see what people have been sharing—we'll keep...
Honoring Pat Schneider
Pat Schneider, the founder of AWA, passed away on August 10, 2020. This post on our blog is a memorial to her. Please share your stories and photos of Pat in the comments.
AWA Newsletter: May 2020
I have been so moved by the response to Write Around the World, our month-long marathon of donation-based, online writing sessions. Our aim this year was to help, to bring people together to experience the liberation and healing of the AWA method, rather than to raise a specific amount. For that reason, we set variable donation levels—some writers attended for as little as $1.
AWA Newsletter: April 2020
Latter from guy howard klopp: “Yes, I really do write my name in all lower case letters—perhaps it is an affectation or maybe just a core belief I have to accomplish great deeds to deserve capitalization.”
AWA Newsletter: March 2020
AWA leaders across the country are taking their offerings online to make writing together accessible during this time of isolation. Workshop leaders, if you have an online offering, please post it to our Event Calendar!