1st Opening:
Time/Day: Tuesdays, 1:30-4:00 pm Pacific / 4:30-7:00 pm Eastern
First 5 Weeks: April 16, 23 + April 31, May 7, 14
[No mtg on May 21]
Second 5 Weeks: May 28 + June 4, 11, 18, 25
[No mtg on July 2]
Tuition: $380 for 10 weeks; $250 for 5 weeks [2.5 hours each wk, 5 writers max]
Open to female and male writers working in all genres
Facilitator: Dana Cunningham Anderson, M.S.
Platform: Zoom
2nd Opening:
Time/Day: Wednesdays, 9:30am – 12:30pm Pacific / 11:30am – 1:30 pm CT / 12:30-3:30 pm ET / 5:30-8:30 pm Israeli Time
First 5 Weeks: April 17, 24 + May 1, 8, 15
[No mtg on May 22]
Second 5 Weeks: May 29 + June 5, 12, 19, 26
Tuition: $450 for 10 weeks; $275 for 5 weeks [3 hour mtg each wk, 5 writers max]
Open to writers who identify as female; all genres welcome.
Writing Alive! Workshops, rooted in The Amherst Method, supports the writing process by emphasizing the good. First draft writing enlivened by an experimental, free approach can soar beyond previous bounds. Knowing the good in our work will be found and celebrated, seen and heard, helps us take necessary risks and learn from the expression of our best.
Each workshop is prompt-based, with 2-4 opportunities to write and read aloud in each workshop, for every writer. Writers always have the option to pass — no one is forced to read prematurely. Writers may bring their own work-in-progress and use the dedicated writing time in the workshop to advance their own goals. Writers work at their own level of experience and may write in many different genres during a single 5- or 10-week period. All genres are welcome.
Some craft exercises are included. Most prompts offered are poems or prose passages written by contemporary or long-standing established writers; writings from philosophers or spiritual teachers associated with varied paths to understanding. We endeavor, as writers, to stretch ourselves into uncomfortable territories. Support and positive feedback assist us to do this.
Dana Cunningham Anderson, M.S., is a certified facilitator with The Amherst Method; an experienced editor in possession of several decades’ of acquired knowledge; a retired psychotherapist; an active, professional visual artist; and a meditator. With Writing Alive!, which she founded in 2015, Dana experiences the perfect mating of The Joy of Facilitation with The Pleasure of Writing, Often, With Others.
Contact Dana with questions or to enquire about the availability of an opening posted here: text to 503-eight-12-eight879. Or email writingaliveworkshops@gmail.com.
Writing Alive! Workshops
Dana Cunningham Anderson
A Place for Every Voice, since 2015
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