Touchstone Writers
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.
When people write together and share their work, something magical happens. To know others and be known authentically validates your place in life, however impermanent it may be.
“The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.” David Whyte