The Method The Amherst Writers and Artists Philosophy Workshop Events Calendar, in-person, online, worldwide Find a workshop in your area Pat Schneider, founder of AWA Pat Schneider on Wikipedia Pat Schneider bio on the Poetry Foundation website A really good poem: Pat’s “Instructions for the Journey” Pat Schneider: “We send the children of the poor to fight the children of the poor.” (In...
I’ve scheduled an event at Manny’s in the Mission District in the evening of Tuesday, October 14. The event is on EventBrite. HOW COME? Well, Norma and I had a publishing business in San Francisco. I wrote the books and we shipped them out of our garage. It worked really great. Then we moved to Italy. I put the remaining inventory in a storage locker in Daly City. That was nine years...
we sold our house and came to Italy I almost tossed the laptop but changed my mind went to see Sy in North Carolina came back and kept writing did a workshop in the Mission District came back and kept writing laughed with Pat Schneider in Connecticut came back and kept writing spent time in a French chateau came back and kept writing Now taking reservations for the May 16-23, 2026 “How To...
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Quickly sign up for one session $42 US Worldwide. Via Zoom. Scheduled Times: Sundays: 9am–11am PST–West Coast 10am-12 noon MST–Mountain 11am-1pm CST–Central 12 noon-2pm EST–Eastern 17.00-19.00 GMT–UK, Ireland 18.00-20.00 CET–Italy, Europe Powered by Or take it one month at a time at $149.00 USD Or try a drop-in session to see how you like...
I’m not sure why I started writing the handwritten journal but it has taken on a life of its own. I write in it nearly every day now. As a lonely expatriate I get a feeling of anonymous connection by putting pages of the handwritten journal on the Internet. Then I see you at a party and you tell me you read it. Which is unlikely since I live in Italy. Still, I think about the possibility...
Dear Reader, As I did when writing the column for Salon.com, when I had a freedom to write what I wanted which was unthinkable and nearly limitless, when I would try to reach you by a bridge of words, by a rhythm of speech, by speech that was not just words but sound and music, as I did when I tried to reach a magical moment of consonance between us, unraveling the terror of an orphan on the...
[Note: This is pretty much a literal transcription of the podcast.]–ct Good morning, or evening, this is Cary Tennis, it’s Thursday, April 29, 2021, and today I’m going to do things slightly differently because this is the story behind the workshops and the book, that is, the Finishing School workshops. So how it really began is like this: In 2004 I was finishing up an article...