Coronado resident Ann Bancroft will be leading a four-week writers workshop in June 2017. Writers at all levels of experience are welcome to participate in the workshop. Using the Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) method, the workshop will stimulate creativity, help participants to develop confidence in their writing, encourage new work and support other writers.
In the AWA method, a small group of writers gathers and the workshop leader gives a writing prompt. This can be a line of poetry, an object, a photograph – anything that might stir memory or imagination. The group then quietly writes, from memory or imagination, whatever comes to mind. Writing continues for a specific, short amount of time, from five to twenty minutes. When the writing time ends, the writers read to the group what they have written. Because all work is new, only positive responses are allowed: what I liked, what was strong, what stays with me.
AWA keeps writers feeling safe in their writing by demanding confidentiality of the writers. All writing is presumed fiction. There is no discussion about the subject of the writing, only the writing itself and only in context of those three positive responses.
Thanks to the generosity of the Coronado Historical Association, members of CHA will get a discount on the series.*
Cost: $80 for the four-week session
*Coronado Historical Association Members: $70
Workshop Leader: Ann Bancroft, AWA Affiliate
Email [email protected] to sign up. Space is limited!
Coronado resident Ann Bancroft began writing fiction after a career in journalism and political communications. She was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Associated Press, and an editorial writer at the Sacramento Bee. She taught journalism courses at American River College, California State University Sacramento and University of California, Berkeley, her alma mater. She leads AWA workshops at San Diego Writers, Ink and is working on her second novel.
