Hi, I’m Anya Achtenberg.
I’m an award-winning author of fiction and poetry, and a long-time teacher of fiction, memoir and poetry.
This website is a writer’s place. It is a gathering of what can be useful to this work.
I’m an award-winning author of fiction and poetry, and a long-time teacher of fiction, memoir and poetry.
This website is a writer’s place. It is a gathering of what can be useful to this work.
These unique online courses for fiction and memoir writing help you expand your creativity and strengthen your writer’s voice. Get writing and keep writing! The courses are hosted on Teachable.com, in my The DisobedientWriter School—formatted so that you can work independently, or in writer’s groups,as you please. Some courses are already up; many more coming.… Continue reading Online courses in memoir and fiction writing
I offer : One-to-one consultations Manuscript critiques One-to-one work using an online class for craft study and to generate writing for critique, both for individuals and writers’ groups. (Here is a list of available fiction and memoir writing classes.) If you already know that you want to work with me, here is more information on… Continue reading Manuscript critique and coaching services
Photo by Shashank Sahay on Unsplash 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 their ideas about craft and language, through reframing and recontextualizing the concepts of creative writing. Each workshop uses multicultural and interdisciplinary… Continue reading Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World
The work I did in [Anya’s] classes was vital and immediate and more real than any writing I had done before. I learned so much abut how to pare down–and about how to come to my work with new perspective. […] I can say that my own experience of writing and creating has been changed forever by working with Anya. If you have this opportunity in your life, take it.
Anya’s classes allowed me to not just be able to re-dream a world but to re-dream a universe! With me in it! My glorious writer’s self! Anya’s classes were a path into helping me successfully find my inward voice which now in the present has allowed me to write in a fury! Since Anya’s class I have had the opportunity to do poetry readings in Chicago, and created a writing group called The Night of the Living Tongues.