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
I have attended many writing workshops throughout my life, and Anya’s have been the most exciting, unique, and productive I have ever experienced. I have also had the privilege to have Anya do editing work for me, and she gave my work the kind of deep, loving, and careful attention that each of us wishes that an editor will give to our “beloved creations!” If that’s not enough, Anya is a beautiful, powerful woman and human being, who believes that we can “change the world” with our writing, and she shows us how to have the courage to do so. There is really nothing more I can say, except “take Anya’s workshops!!”
After each [workshop I’ve attended with Anya], I’ve returned to my writings with newly learned and reinforced dimensions – to shape more fully, delve more deeply, to narrate my truth, what happens, what makes us, what makes us tell.