Invitation to Joy

- AWL Anthology

Availability Date: November 2024  | Cost: 18.00

Edited By

Andrea Canaan, Natalie Devora,

Juli C. Lasselle, & Suma Nagaraj

‘Invitation to Joy’ takes the reader on a journey filled with joy, grief, betrayal, forgiveness, trauma, self-liberation, friendship, and our relative privileges within color, gender, wealth, language, and citizenship. Essays, poetry, and short stories fill these pages offering a diverse experience from the AWL Community. 

Founded in 2019, A Writer’s Life teaches and models intergenerational craft development. Our community is multicultural, multiethnic, and cross-generational, and serves people of all abilities. We write individually and in community, in person and online. 

-Andrea Canaan, Founder of AWL, MSW, MFA

Phone: 415-515-5943

Email: andreacanaan@gmail.com

PayPal paypal.me/awriterslife 

Venmo  @Andrea-Canaan-1

Payment Note: AWL 2024 Anthology.

AWL Offerings

  • AWL Writing Groups

    A Writer’s Life group provides structure and support for a consistent writing practice that includes writing, reading, revising, workshopping, building and maintaining writer’s communities and partnerships, and publishing and promoting the creative work produced. Groups meet on Tuesdays and Wednesdays currently, with more groups being added on demand.

    60 - 120 mins weekly | Remote Sessions (Zoom)

  • AWL Annual Writing Camp

    Writing in a room of one’s own, but as part of a writing community to rediscover and revise early or unfinished writing in the October sun in the Bay Area. An extended weekend focused on the art and craft of writing, including seminars and workshops to bridge the analog/anodyne writing world with new-age skill sets of self-marketing and personal brand-building.

    3 days | Every October

  • Individual Consultations

    Some of us need individual handholding and support for our writing life to thrive and grow. If a one-on-one consultation is what will make your creative life sing in joy, you can choose to set up individual consultations with Andrea, in person or online. All AWL members get special membership rates for one-on-one consultations with Andrea.

    60 mins | in-person and online

  • Radical Womanist Workshop

    A writing process that preserves women’s wellness and creative spaces for writers to share creative process, build and sustain the Women of Color writing community, and share and teach coping and liberating strategies to conquer sexism, racism, ableism, colorism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and other systems of structural oppression while living liberating and joyful lives.

    3 hours | 4-6 people | On demand

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