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
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.
Your voice as a writer and teacher makes the strands of space that connects more visible. You do that when you teach I think, evoke the deep hidden layers of meaning, the interstices of silence where potent stories reside and you tease them from others by the way you speak, the way you hint at the interweavings within a life, a character’s perceptions, the nuances of truth.