*FREE* AWA Writing Workshops for Stress Management

Join us to create new pieces of writing, connect with other writers, and receive encouraging support for your writing.

In a time when every day brings countless sources of stress, this workshop provides a refreshing break. It includes a series of writing prompts and sharing time where we will be present, process, and explore the joys of creative expression in a collaborative community setting. This workshop offers a way to connect with others while writing through our emotions and into our imaginations. It also aims to provide some relief from the stress we carry.

This is a generative writing workshop using the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) method, where you'll write new pieces based on prompts (or whatever you feel like writing), followed by reading and responses that only identify what's working or what resonates with readers in your writing (no critique!).

This workshop is for all levels of writers, including beginners who might not yet identify as writers. It's also open to all genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc.).

• What: AWA Writing Workshop for Stress Management
• When: Third Wednesdays at 12pm CT and Last Sundays at 4pm CT
• Where: Zoom (link sent with Eventbrite ticket confirmation)
• Cost: Free

*Donations to compensate my time and support my self-employed circumstances are greatly appreciated. $5, $20, $50, etc.

Attendees will leave with 1-3 new pieces of new writing, along with encouraging feedback to inspire them to continue with their writing. The goal is for everyone to leave the workshop with less stress than they brought into it.

I am an AWA-certified facilitator leading workshops in the AWA method as described in Writing Alone and With Others by Pat Schneider, Oxford University Press. I am also a writer with numerous publications and contest/award wins for my poetry, short fiction, and short nonfiction. I have written two novels, I have two poetry books in the publication process, and I am consistently improving my writing and industry knowledge through various classes, workshops, etc.