If your community is not listed, contact us for information. There may be a workshop near to you that is not affiliated, but is led by a certified AWA workshop leader. See Affiliated Workshop Leaders, below.
Participants vary widely in age, education and writing experience.
We celebrate this fact. Because writing is always an act which makes one vulnerable, in workshop we deal carefully and thoughtfully with fears and blocks to the creative process, while offering in-depth response to work which is offered in manuscript form. Participants use or ignore those suggestions as best fits the creative moment, and are free to read work written in workshop, or refrain from reading if privacy is preferred. When a writer wants suggestions for revision, he or she gives copies of a manuscript to all participants. One week later the manuscript is discussed and copies are returned to the author with responses written in the margins.