Welcome, disobedient writers!
Let’s face it; you write with no guarantee. You write with risk. You write with limitless promise. You write true and wild. You are capable of amazement.
May this be a resource for you.
Break the Rules and Free Your Story: An introduction to disobedient writing
Are you looking for an introduction to the art and craft of disobedient writing? Are you looking for a place to push your work to the next step? Do it online with me at Udemy.com, in my new course, an in-depth exploration of the rules that can hold back our writing and how to break… Continue reading Break the Rules and Free Your Story: An introduction to disobedient writing
Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World workshops
Whether you are a member of a writing group or connected with a literary or educational institution, contact me to arrange a writing workshop in your area. A 3-part series; each workshop stands on its own, or can be taught as part of the whole. For writers across the genres interested in shifting and expanding… Continue reading Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World workshops
Working with Anya has forever changed my relationship to writing, pulling it from deep in my unconscious up into the light of inquiry. I had been writing for quite a while, following the movements of my mind, my own impulses as to how to tell a story, and suddenly through her teachings I saw that I have so many choices as to how to proceed at each moment. […] Writing has become so much more playful and exciting. The joy I now get from my relationship to my craft is immense.
Annie Lewis
If my house were burning down, I would grab artwork, my book, and the notebooks I wrote in Anya’s classes. If you’re looking for an average writing teacher or editor, go elsewhere. Anya resides in the upper stratosphere of creativity and, if you let her, will lift your writing to heights you never dreamed possible. I won the 2006 New Mexico Discovery Award, first prize in non-fiction, for a story I began in Anya’s class. I divide my writing into two phases: pre-Anya and post-Anya. There is no comparison.
