Rose Writers is the only AWA affiliated workshop in Southern California.  In AWA workshops, you are encouraged to:

• Give your writing time.
• Sound more and more like yourself.
• Experiment, play, take risks, be brave.
• Believe in the fresness, vitality, and importance of your own experience and imagination.
• Practice in ways that will teach you to recognize your own voice and to increase its range.
• Believe in yourself as an artist-in-training, and protect yourself from everyone and everything that undermines that belief.
• Observe
• Remember
• Imagine
• Find and keep in contact with other writers/artists who can provide you with an intimate community of support, give you honest, critical response, strengthen you, and encourage your work.*

Visit the AWA website to learn more.

*from, Writing Alone and With Others, by Pat Schneider