Weekly writing groups
for 2008
will continue as
eight or ten week sessions
during the Winter, Spring, and Fall.

Call 617-733-9016 for more information or to register.
Workshops in:
—Creative Writing
—Design
—Visual Arts

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8- week
AWA Writing Groups
Spring 2008

Wednesday
Nights 7-10
from May 7
through June 25
(Men & Women)

Juiceboxartists.com offers WEEKLY WRITING WORKSHOPS throughout the year. Workshop cycles run for 8 or 10 weeks. Please call (617)733-9016 for more information, to register, or to be placed on the mailing list. We welcome your questions.

We limit workshop size to provide adequate time and attention to each member. Writers with a diversity in age, background, experience level, style, and genre meet together in the same workshop. This breaks down competition, encourages compassion, and allows everyone to learn more from one another. This format also encourages each writer to experiment in form and style, and to try out different genres.

THE WORKSHOP FORMAT
Workshop members gather at the start of each meeting while the workshop leader gives an optional writing exercise. If you already have something in mind to write, you are free to ignore the exercise. The workshop meets in a comfortable, quiet setting where members can spread out to find private places to write. We devote half of each meeting to quiet writing time. We spend the second half reading aloud and responding. We make time to discuss written, revised manuscripts of workshop members as the need arises.

READING ALOUD
Midway through the workshop everyone gathers together again. Participants are encouraged, but not pressured, to read aloud what they have just written. All writing done for the workshop is assumed to be fictional unless the author volunteers that it is autobiographical.

RESPONDING
Participants learn to listen well to each writer and to respond with what they liked, and what stays with them. Listeners are not allowed to criticize or correct work read aloud that has just been written. In an atmosphere of safety and support, each writer learns to hear and strengthen her or his own voice.

MANUSCRIPTS
Workshop members are encouraged though at no time required to bring in and hand out copies of written, revised manuscripts when they have something ready. A week later, after everyone has had a chance to read and write down comments, part of the workshop time is spent discussing the work. Members make comments of appreciation and suggestions for change. The aim is to find a balance between each manuscript's strengths and the places it needs improvement.

THE WORKSHOP LEADER'S ROLE
The workshop leader writes along with the workshop members in every writing time, reads her own work aloud for response from workshop members, and responds to workshop members' writing. She makes the workshop members her writing peers. This increases the amount that everyone learns from one another in the workshop.