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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 conversation with Cary Tennis, Berkeley, California.)
Pat Schneider on How the Amherst Writers and Artists method was born (In conversation with Cary Tennis, Berkeley, California.)
In The Sun magazine
Notable other workshop leaders
These are people whose workshops I have attended or have been in a workshop with, and/or whom I know personally, whose stellar reputations are vouched for by people I know personally and trust, who have been in the workshops. They may or may not be currently holding workshops, but visit their sites and say hello!
Jen Cross
Writing Ourselves Whole—at the intersection of trauma and desire —
Chris DeLorenzo, Laguna Writers
Paul Rozario-Falcone from Brooklyn, NY
Aaron Zimmerman, New York Writers Coalition
Videos
Voices from the New York Writers Coalition
Giving Voice to the Unheard—New York Writers Coalition
Press Accounts
New York’s Most Popular Writing Method You’ve Never Heard Of
More Pat Schneider videos
Pat Schneider: “Writing is a scary thing to do.”
Pat Schneider on “I only write Poetry” (“Most of us have many different kinds of writing in us.”)
Pat Schneider on the Three kinds of Voice every Writer has
Pat Schneider reading “The Patience of Ordinary Things”
Videos of Me (Me, Me, Me!)
“Since You Asked” comes back: A …
Come and sit in these chairs! A strange but popular–judging from the view count–ad for our AWA workshops in our San Francisco house. (Please don’t call that phone number I give out at the end, I don’t even have an American telephone anymore.)
A Visit to the Memory Palace, Portuguese Artists Colony
The Perils of the Slush Pile A humorous reading at the now-defunct Portuguese Artists Colony of San Francisco: “How can you believe in your own writing?” when there is so much … other stuff out there?
Cancer can be Funny! A Portuguese Artists Colony reading that makes everybody laugh, about a death-dealing cat walking across my table at Esalen, and I finally do play the song I wrote about getting cancer and not freaking out about it.
A duel “craft talk” with author Jennifer Haigh at the June 2008 Colgate Writers Conference. If you’re looking at this primarily for my portion of it, you can fast forward to 44.25 and hear the rather stunning introduction to my rambling.
My solo performance craft talk the next morning at the same Colgate Writers Conference, in which I describe how working at Chevron as a copy editor led to writing my advice column at Salon.com: As I sit on the desk instead of standing at the lectern and explain, “Well, this morning I’m giving a craft talk, and I don’t have it extremely well put together …”
The World’s First Reading of the Index of Similes When we published the first book of my Salon.com columns, I searched for all the occasions of “Like a” and made this found-poetry collection of similes. It turned out to be pretty amusing!
Lastly: My poorly maintained and not exactly up-to-date Youtube channel
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