Touchstone Writers
When people write together and share their work, something magical happens: connection, community, commonality. To know others and be known authentically validates your place in life, however impermanent it may be.
Following the Amherst Writers & Artists method, Ann Hutton offers provocative prompts to get the creative juices flowing. AWA founder Pat Schneider believed that everyone has the capacity to write. Most importantly, writing skills can be learned through positive support. An AWA workshop is a safe, confidential space in which anyone can delve into their memories and express themselves creatively.
Whether that means honing a piece for publication or creating a legacy will to pass down to friends and family, you will benefit from expressing yourself and receiving affirmative feedback. You will learn to listen for what works in another’s writing. And you will know that practicing the craft with others can be a rewarding and enlightening experience.
Freelance writer Ann Hutton lives in upstate New York’s magnificent Hudson Valley. Her work has appeared in numerous local publications there. A graduate of Union Institute and University at Vermont College, Ann has studied with Martha Frankel, author, entertainment journalist, and executive director of the Woodstock Book Festival held each spring in Woodstock, New York; Abigail Thomas, teacher, author of memoir and fiction, and all around writerly inspiration; and Kate Hymes, Wallkill Valley Writers workshop leader and writing coach, and recent Poet Laureate of Ulster County. Ann became a certified Amherst Writers & Artists Method workshop leader and now supports the generative principle in other writers through workshops in person in the Hudson Valley and online.
