What Are Wise Women Write Writing Workshops?
Wise Women Write is a creative, supportive environment for women to share their truth with other writing women. Wise Women Write writing groups are facilitated by Phoenix author and writing teacher Diane Amento Owens and by Wise Women Write alum and writing facilitator Trish Dolasinski. Through group discussion, free writing, journaling, reading assignments, and writing prompts, women produce their own creative non-fiction work. Then each writer brings her writing back to the group to share in a supportive environment. Groups can be as small as three or four writers to as many as eight. A Wise Women Write group meets for two to three hours typically on an every-other-week basis. During this time we socialize, share writing news, receive a new writing assignment, and then workshop work written based on the prior assignment. Groups meet in coffee shops or in writers’ homes. A writing series consists of four to six meetings built around a single topic such as memoir writing, writing about
