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Write on Writers Workshops

Amherst Writers & Artists Method Workshops

The objective of these workshops (6-8 weeks sessions and one-day workshops) is to provide a safe and supportive setting for participants to come together to create new works or further develop works in progress. Together we will write from writing prompts. I encourage writers to write with a pen and paper. Writing prompts are a means of generating new ideas, unearthing buried memories, to practice the art of writing. At the end of our timed writing, writers share their writing, including the facilitator. Writers may decline, but the process fosters bravery.

Class dates to be announced.

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Micro-Memoir: Writing for the Moment

This six-week course focuses on “making the most of a moment.” Drawn from personal experiences—quirky memories, meeting a beloved, witnessing a tragedy—we will write memoir in short form. (Max: 750 words.) Through generative in-class writing, and group workshopping (critiquing) of pieces written at home, participants will explore techniques of writing that lend themselves to short-form memoir. Short- form memoirs, later combined, can create snapshots of a life story.

Class dates to be announced.

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“Ana created a safe place where community blossomed. (Writing With Writing Prompts)”

OLLI, Spring 2021

“Ana’s background in writing and coaching writing is extraordinary. She manages to find the writer in each of us. (Writing With Writing Prompts)”

OLLI Winter 2021

“The instructor and group members were fabulous. We laughed and cried. Oh,… and we learned.”

Olli, Spring 2020

“I loved everything about this class. Knowing the ongoing struggle of the instructor with her own memoir writing made the entire process somehow more human and approachable.”

Olli, Spring 2020

“I loved the small micro-memoir format. I think for most students it was an eye opener to think that small pieces might together make a whole picture. So much easier to think about just responding to one writing prompt than to think about writing an entire memoir or book.”

Olli, Spring 2020

“Ana was available and made it feel okay to ask questions. I would recommend her to anyone wanting to take a class.”

Olli, Spring 2020