After so many years of being in a variety of writing circles, I offer beginning and advanced writers of all genres to workshops based on the principles of Amherst and Writer’s and Artists. Like most artists, we need to practice our craft, take risks, and free ourselves to create. We will write together in a safe, comfortable home. I will offer (see writing prompts) prompts, which workshop participants can either use or ignore. We will use a variety of methods to stimulate our creativity.
We will read aloud from our first drafts or we choose not to. We learn to hear, trust, and discover our individual voices. We comment on what works, what stands out, and what we remember in each piece. Confidentiality is essential so that we may each feel safe to go deeper into our own work.
This is not a critique group, nor is it a place for editing manuscripts, but a place to generate new writing. What matters most is that we each come away from the group supported and nourished so that we will continue to write.