Every May, AWA workshop leaders across the globe bring writers together. Leaders help AWA raise funds by offering donation-based writing groups. Proceeds from each session support AWA and its mission. New writers experience the AWA method and celebrate the unique creativity in each other’s voices.
Write Around The World 2024 is nearly here! Check out this year’s event calendar and sign up for your chance to produce some great writing, engage with a supportive community and experience the magic of AWA. We’re offering groups nearly every day!
This writing was done in Kimberly Lee’s workshop “The Fab Five: Writing with the Senses” during last year’s WAW.
Thump-Thump-Twang by Elizabeth Cockle
Only a machine can soundtrack
sweat and hips at a night club in Ibiza
or Barcelona or small-screen
equivalent, an HBO drama teeming
with characters aged twenty-six
max, willowy things who slip
a rainbow of tablets under their tongues,
fling hands up as the beat stretches—
and drops,
stretches—
and drops,
wrists loose, waists looser,
feet locked in strappy heels
pretending to be feathers.