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 Lisa Colburn and Summer Hardinge’s workshop during last year’s WAW.
Loon Calls by Kristin W. Davis
A loon her chick on the lake
we’re on the phone I ride
rise and fall listen for tone
is she of the current separating,
closer again a brief hoot
overwhelmed as they drift?
Her tremolo “I am here”
reassurance. I feel it
in my body my red eye
striped collar the throat
tight mother loon
plunges my gut curdles
She surfaces no fish
a croak must swallow
the chick climbs her back
nestles gray down deep
fluid tones under mother’s
stiff wing no matter how taut
I have no air I must
sing anyway.