Events & Workshops
Fall '24
Writing Workshops
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TRAINING JULIE HAS RECEIVED/WILL RECEIVE
PAST WORKSHOPS
JULIE HAS LED
Trauma & Metaphor
Wednesday Winter '23
Fingerpainting on the Moon: Writing & Creativity as a Path to Freedom
with Sue Reynolds
Sept - Nov, 2022
For the Ann Arbor Women's Group
Professional Development and Writing Retreat for AWA-certified Leaders
Oct 1 - Oct 3, 2021
Through lectures and demonstrations, you learn to follow the wisdom of the body and resolve blocks to well-being. As you strip away your entanglements, you are freed to release your unconscious contracts. You begin to untangle your life energy and discover first-hand the power of meditation to change the brain.
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Untame Your Story: Rewild Your Life: A Five-Part Memoir Writing Class
Mary Reynolds Thompson--author of Reclaiming the Wild Soul.
What story are you living?
Oct/Nov 2020
Nature Journaling: A Spirited Path through Perilous Times: Mary Reynolds Thompson--author of Reclaiming the Wild Soul. Designed for writers looking for inspiration, eco-therapists or forest guides, for all those who want to deepen their connection to the natural world.
August 2020
AWA Post-Certificate Training - Prose Workshop: for workshop leaders who have already been through the Amherst Writers & Artists training program
November 2020
Reframing Trauma: Reading & Writing Workshop
Online Course
with Kelly Fordon
Saturday, July 18th, 2020
Writing from the Body: Writing, Movement & Somatics Workshop
Online Course
May 26 - June 30, 2020
Cheryl Pallant
Online Course - Jessica Lourey - 2019
Veterans Writing Program Initiative
Amherst Writers & Artists POST-CERTIFICATE TRAINING SESSION
November 2019
Rensselaerville, NY
Write From Your Center--Meditation & Writing Course: Nadia Colburn, Align Your Story
15 minutes a day--to transform your writing and your life.
Summer 2019
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Writing Down the Bones: Find Your Voice, Tell Your Story--taught by Natalie Goldberg
An online workshop in which Natalie Goldberg illuminates the messy, glorious path of writing: from building writing practice as discipline to deepening in skill and sensitivity..."
Spring 2019
An online workshop on the ins & outs of submitting your writing
April 10 - May 8, 2019
Guidance and tools to make sense of the submissions process.
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--a writing workshop with Lynda Barry-Writing the Unthinkable--& Don Chaon
Summer 2018
Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
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Persons of Interest: Character Development in Prose
Writing Workshop with
Eric Charles May
Summer 2018
Interlochen Center for the Arts
Writing Workshop with
Maureen Dunphy - Springfed Arts
Feb 14 - Mar 21, 2018 &
Apr 11 - May 23, 2018
"Write Around the World"
AWA Fundraiser
Facilitated Writing Session
led by Julie Mariouw
Sun, May 22, 4-6pm Eastern
Writing the Hero's Journey through the Body
8-week online workshops
Mon & Thurs Evenings
7-9:30pm &
Winter 2022
8-week online workshop
Mon Evenings
6:30-9pm &
Fri afternoons
1-3:30pm
Nov/Dec 2021
Metaphor & the Body/AWA Retreat
Facilitated Writing Session
led by Julie Mariouw
Sun, Oct 3, 1:15-2:45pm
8-week online workshop
Three Sections - Mon, Tues & Thurs
6:30-9pm, Fall 2021
Creating Characters through the Body
8-Week Online Writing Workshop
Thurs Evenings 6:30-9pm
Summer 2021
Write Around the World with Julie Mariouw
Fundraiser for Amherst Writers & Artists
Sun, May 23, 2021, 3-5pm
8-Week Online Writing Workshop/Two Sections
Mon & Tues Evenings
6:30-9pm, Jan/Feb 2021
Amherst Writers & Artists Launchpad Group
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A space to share resources, solve problems, and receive support as a workshop leader.
Sundays 1-3pm, Feb/Mar 2021
8-Week Online Writing Workshop
2 Sections: Monday & Wednesday Evenings 6:30-9pm - Nov/Dec 2020
8-Week Online Writing
Workshops - 2 Sections: Tuesday & Thursday Evenings
July/August 2020
"From Head to Heart: the Power of Journaling in Recovery, June 26, 2020 Sponsored by the Ann Arbor Women's Group
Mar 10-April 28, 2020
Thurs Online Workshop
Mar 12-April 30, 2020
Interlochen Center for the Arts
Memoir Writing Workshop 2015
Jan 7 - Feb 25, 2020
Jan 9 - Feb 27, 2020
Dec 7, 2019
Sept 10 - Oct 29, 2019
DETAILS & GUIDELINES FOR 8-WEEK CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
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5-9 people in workshop
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8-week session online using Zoom
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We will meet for 2 & 1/2 hrs each session.
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I offer writing prompts. You are free to use the prompt, or write wherever you're led. We will not bring outside writing in.
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We will spend 1 - 20 min on each prompt.
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After we've finished writing, members will read their work aloud, unless they elect not to do so.
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I will ask for other members' comments on what they experienced as strong and successful in the writer's work, noticing the choices she/he has made. I will guide members so that we stay focused on the writing rather than on the writer.
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All writing will be treated as fiction, unless the writer states that it is autobiographical; this keeps the focus on the writing rather than on the writer; it allows members to gain access to, and then express, thoughts and emotions that may be too powerful, painful, embarrassing or surprising to expose otherwise.
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Confidentiality is essential in this group; therefore we will not talk about writing that happens in the workshop outside of the workshop, or even outside of the time designated for responses. In this way we keep each other safe.
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DETAILS & GUIDELINES FOR ONE-DAY CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
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5-9 people in workshop
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We will meet from 10am - 4pm
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I offer writing prompts. You are free to use the prompt, or write wherever you're led.
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I also create and use handouts.
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We will spend 1-20 min on each prompt.
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After we've finished writing, members will read their work aloud, unless they elect not to do so.
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I will ask for other members' comments on what they experienced as strong and successful in the writer's work, noticing the choices she/he has made. I will guide members so that we stay focused on the writing rather than on the writer.
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All writing will be treated as fiction, unless the writer states that it is autobiographical; this keeps the focus on the writing rather than on the writer; it allows members to gain access to, and then express, thoughts and emotions that may be too powerful, painful, embarrassing or surprising to expose otherwise.
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Confidentiality is essential in this group; therefore we will not talk about writing that happens in the workshop outside of the workshop, or even outside of the time designated for responses. In this way we keep each other safe.
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Sept 5- Oct 24, 2019
Thurs Workshop
May 16 - July 18, 2019
Mar 7 - Apr 25, 2019
Jan 8 - Feb 26, 2019
Jan 10 - Feb 28, 2019
Nov 17, 2018
Sept 13 - Nov 1, 2018
Sept 18 - Nov 6, 2018
Aug 11, 2018
May 12, 2018
Mar 17 - May 5, 2018
Jan 11 - Mar 15, 2018
Nov 11, 2017
Sept 14 - Nov 9, 2017
Aug 12, 2017
April 6 - June 1, 2017
May 20, 2017
Feb 11, 2017
Jan 12 - Mar 2, 2017
Workshop
Sept 22 - Nov 10, 2016
weekly 2009 - 2016
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Julie believes that all people are born with creative genius and that, if given the right set of circumstances, everyone can reach their full potential.
Some of the essential AWA principals Julie adheres to in her workshops:
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A non-hierarchical spirit is maintained in the workshop, while at the same time an appropriate discipline keeps writers safe.
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Confidentiality about what is written in the workshop is maintained, and the privacy of the writer is protected.
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All writing is treated as fiction.
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At all times writers are free to refrain from reading their work.
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Absolutely no criticism, suggestion, or question is directed toward the writer in response to first-draft, just-written work.
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The teaching of craft is taken seriously and is conducted through exercises that invite experimentation and growth.
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The leader writes along with the participants, and reads that work aloud in each writing session. This practice is essential, for only in this way is there equality of risk-taking and mutuality of trust.
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