AWA Creative Writing Tasting Menu

Event Description:

Join facilitators Barbara Krasner and Kathleen Olesky for a three-course feast of creative writing using the Amherst Writers & Artists method.

We'll begin with an amuse-bouche to whet your creative appetite, move on to an appetizer to get the words flowing, and finish with a savory main course that satisfies.

You'll write to three timed prompts and have the opportunity to share your work and receive strengths-based feedback focused on what stays with us, what's strong, and what's working.

No experience necessary. All genres welcome.

Come sample the possibilities and get a taste of River Heron Review's 2027 creative writing workshops!

Details:

RSVP—One session on Zoom
Tuesday, Dec. 1 6:30 to 9:30 PM (ET)

Register for the AWA Creative Writing Tasting Menu

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Workshop Facilitators:

Barbara Krasner has been a certified AWA workshop facilitator since 2013. Her literary work has appeared in more than seventy literary journals. Her love of ekphrastic writing has helped through a period of chronic illness and has resulted in many literary works, including poetry published or forthcoming in The Ekphrastic Review, MacQueen's Quinterly, Main Street Rag, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, The Jewish Writing Project, and elsewhere. Her ekphrastic poetry collections include Poems of the Winter Palace (Bottlecap Press, 2025), The Night Watch: Poems (Kelsay Books, 2025), Insomnia: Poems after Lee Krasner (Dancing Girl Press, 2026) and the forthcoming The Wanderers (Shanti Arts, 2026). She is the author of several fabulist short stories and is at work on a poetry collection in response to artwork by female surrealists.

Kathleen Olesky, MA, MFA is a certified Amherst Writers and Artists affiliate. She has been leading AWA workshops since 2004 when she was trained by Pat Schneider, founder of AWA and author of Writing Alone and With Others (Oxford University Press, 2003).  A former chair of the AWA board of directors, Kathleen has been co-leading trainings for workshop leaders for the past ten years. She currently leads workshops for adults and has experience leading workshops in Spanish as well. Her poetry has appeared in Peregrine and her nonfiction in The Buddhas Apprentices (Shambala Press) and in a national publication, Living Buddhism(SGI-USA press).

Questions: editors@riverheronreview.com

Refunds: Up to one week prior to the workshop start date, full refund minus $15 processing fee. After that time, there are no refunds.

Workshop sessions are not recorded, nor are there make up sessions.