| What is the AWA method of Creative Writing? When Pat Schneider first began a wrting workshop over twenty years ago, she based it on a simple philosophy: every person is a writer, and every writer deserves a safe environment in which to launch his or her work. The AWA (Amherst Writers & Artists) method has been used successfully with experienced writers as well as beginners, writers whose creative juices are flowing, as well as those experiencing a block. While it is not therapy, it has great healing potential for writers from all backgrounds. |
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Find, Claim
and Share
Your Writer's Voice
8-
week
AWA Writing Groups
Spring 2008
Wednesday
Nights 7-10
from May 7
through June 25
(Men
and Women)
Juiceboxartists
was created as a meeting and workplace where people get their creative
juices flowing. The main focus of the
Juiceboxartists writing program is to offer writing workshops to people
of diverse backgrounds, ages, and levels of writing experience. These
workshops are intended to provide a supportive environment, to encourage
experimentation in writing, and to enable all participating writers to
sound more and more like themselves in their writing. The workshops use
the Amherst Writers & Artists
(AWA) method, described in Pat Schneider's book Writing Alone and with
Others (Oxford Press, 2003).
Deborah Bluestein
is the founder and director of Juiceboxartists. She holds a Master's degree
in fiction writing from Emerson College. In addition to the Somerville
home for Juice Box Artists at the Vernon Street Studios, she has taught
writing for The Brookline Adult Education Program and at Yoga Tuscany
Tours' first writing retreat in the summer of 2003. Her fiction has appeared
in Happy Magazine, and the River Oaks Review, her nonfiction articles
in Radiance, Modern Maturity and the Cambridge Tab. .
After completing a 22-hour course of study with
Pat Schneider in April 2004,
Deborah Bluestein was certified by Amherst Writers & Artists to lead
workshops using this method
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.
