AWA Newsletter: March 2019
Dear AWA friend,
I have always wanted to write, since about age four. I had no notion of “writer” as a profession. There were no books in our home, but my mother had a library card. She didn’t read to her children, but my younger siblings and I witnessed her reading after she put us down for naps. She read voraciously, lost in worlds constructed by words. Her reading habits communicated strongly that books were special.
AWA Newsletter: February 2019
Dear AWA friend,
As I write this morning, I look out a window with green hills in the distance. February is early spring in northern California, but I check my phone app for the weather in the Jocko Valley of northwestern Montana every morning: I want to see how cold it is at home—2 degrees today.
AWA Newsletter: January 2019
January is ebbing fast, and I can’t say I’m sorry. I’m trying to gaze past our human turmoil, across the short, but bleak, weeks of February, to the light of spring.
The strengthening AWA community is a bright spot here and on the horizon, and your board and staff are well into preparation and planning for 2019 and beyond. Maureen, as training director, and Katie, as managing director, are, as always, our bedrock. Board officers for 2019–2020, elected in December 2018, are me (Lane Goddard) as chair; Sue Reynolds as vice-chair and treasurer, and Vicki Pinkerton as secretary.
AWA Newsletter: December 2018
“It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness.”
—Anaïs Nin
AWA News: Retreat Report
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 event:...
AWA Newsletter: August 2018
INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Letter from Rachelle Parker; Online Workshops; Retreat News; Regional News; Training News; Founder’s Message; Affiliate Classifieds; Donation News.
July 2018: Hold Fast to Dreams
INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Letter from Kate Hymes; Regional News; Training News; Affiliate News; Founder's Message; Affiliate Classifieds. July 2018 "Hold fast to dreams..." —Langston Hughes, Dreams Dear AWA friends, At present, academia has a stranglehold on what is American...
June 2018: Full Bloom
INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Letter from Kathleen Olesky; Professional Development and Writing Retreat; Training News; Regional News; Founder's Message; Affiliate Classifieds. June 2018 Dear AWA community, The pink rhododendron outside the Walker Center is in full...
May 2018: Thank you, Jhazalyn!
INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Letter from Jhazalyn Prince; Professional Development and Writing Retreat; Training News; Affiliate Classifieds. Dear AWA community, My first year when I was looking for a work-study job, I wanted to find something that would relate to my...
April 2018: Important Questions
INSIDE THIS NEWSLETTER Letter from Sue Reynolds, Professional Development and Writing Retreat, Training News, Regional News, Founder's Message, Affiliate Classifieds April 2018 “We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something...