Everyone Has a Story to Tell
Launching in June 2020, the Writing Chai Studio offers writers of all genres and all levels the opportunity to find the stories within them and bring them onto the page. Find the voice that makes you unique.
Using the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) method, using time-based prompts as inspiration. All material is considered fiction and all work receives responses about what resonates or sticks. There is no critique. Certified AWA-facilitator Barbara Krasner will provide the prompts.
About the Amherst Writers & Artists Method
Pat Schneider founded the method through her book, Writing Alone and with Others (Oxford University Press, 2003). Nothing could be more appropriate to the COVID times we’re living through right now. The AWA method adheres to Five Essential Affirmations:
- Everyone has a strong, unique voice
- Everyone is born with creative genius
- Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level
- The teaching of craft can be done without damage to a writer’s original voice or artistic self-esteem
- A writer is someone who writes
Join Us on June 7 at 11 am ET for a Quick Introduction!
For anyone interested in generating new ideas, generating new work, or just engaging in a regular writing practice, try out Writing Chai’s Quick Introduction for free!
See what the AWA method can do for your writing!
When: Sunday, June 7, 11:00 am ET
Where: Zoom info to come (you can also dial in for audio only)
Duration: 60 minutes
Send an email to barbarakrasner(at)att(dot)net to sign up.
Upcoming Workshops
Writing Family History
Perhaps you’ve come across a photo or a family heirloom that intrigues you. Maybe you’ve found your immigrant grandparents’ citizenship papers. In this three-week cycle, we’ll write to timed prompts to help you put your thoughts on the page. Each session will last two hours via Zoom on Tuesday evenings, 7:30 pm EDT. Family history can be preserved forever if someone, maybe you, writes it down. Fee: $150, starts June 16, 2020.
Writing Memoir
Memoirist Sue William Silverman writes in her craft book, Fearless Confessions, that memoir involves the connection between the voice of experience and the voice of innocence. We’ll write to a variety of prompts to bring these voices together with insight and respect. We’ll meet via Zoom for two hours each week on Wednesday mornings at 10:00 am EDT, for a five-week cycle. Fee: $225, starts June 17, 2020.
General Writing Chai
This is an ideal workshop for anyone with a work in progress or just a desire to get words down on the page. Perhaps you’re stick in your writing. This workshop will give you the gentle nudge to move forward in ways that might surprise you. This is a five-week workshop for two hours each on Sunday mornings at 11 am EDT. Fee: $225, starts June 14, 2020.
Writing Chai Studio Coaching Services
Writing Chai Studio also offers three coaching services: Submission Strategies, Writing Career, and Manuscript Critique. Contact barbarakrasner(at)att(dot)net for details.
About Barbara Krasner
AWA-certified facilitator Barbara Krasner has been writing with the AWA method since 2011 and received her training in 2013. She writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for adults and young readers. Work using the method has appeared in Jewish Literary Journal, Poetica, Michigan Quarterly Review, South 85 Journal, Peregrine, and other literary journals. She has been nominated for a fiction Pushcart and her middle-grade novel in verse about the ill-fated 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis, 37 Days at Sea, debuts Spring 2021 from Kar-Ben.
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