This is a generative-only workshop based on the Amherst Artists & Writers method. Each week, we will write to evocative prompts – exercises. You may write in any genre. You’ll read your work aloud when you feel comfortable, then respond to each other’s work as mindful listeners, leaving all negative criticism behind. What was strong […]
Jen Sage-Robison
Jen Sage-Robison is an Amherst Writers and Artists Affiliate, certified to lead workshops in the AWA method as described in Writing Alone & With Others by Pat Schneider, Oxford University Press. She had been honored to lead writing workshops for women living in poverty and moms of kids living with disabilities. She has studied writing and literature at Sarah Lawrence College, UMASS, the Mark Twain House, with Grace Paley and the journalist, Susan Campbell. Her work has appeared in The Tishman Review, Panoply, Gyroscope Review and Naugatuck River Review, among other places. Jen believes everyone who writes is a writer and that the art of writing belongs to all people, regardless of education, disability or economic class.
FILLED – Fall in Love with the Lyric Essay – S203F18
Do you have images, memories, turn of phrase you’re not sure what to do with? Perhaps you’d like to share them, craft them into something – but you don’t know exactly what. You’re not positive there’s enough material to write a whole story or poem or memoir, but the ideas, the images won’t leave you […]
Writing from Imagination and Memory – An AWA Workshop – B103F18
This is a generative-only workshop based on the Amherst Artists & Writers method. Each week, we will write to evocative prompts – exercises. You may write in any genre. You’ll read your work aloud when you feel comfortable, then respond to each other’s work as mindful listeners, leaving all negative criticism behind. What was strong […]
FILLED – Women’s Creative Writing Retreat S410M18
Do flashes of inspiration come into your mind as you’re sitting in traffic,fixing dinner, dropping the kids at school, falling asleep at night? Do you find yourself unable to recapture those same ideas when you sit down to write? Do you wish you had time to write but find it impossible to make time? Do […]
FILLED – Writing from Imagination and Memory – An AWA Workshop – B103M18
We carry a multitude of stories inside us, whether they live in our banks of memory, imagination, or both. We’ve been telling stories since we first hopped off the bus and reported to our mothers what happened at school that day or protested, honest-to-god, we weren’t the ones who ate all of Auntie Jean’s oatmeal-chocolate-chunk […]