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Voices from the 'Hood: How to Start and Sustain
a Writing Workshop for Youth at Risk, Robin Therrien with 45
young writers, Amherst Writers & Artists Press,
$12.00+$2.50 s&h Robin Therrien, MSW, LCSC, member of the original Chicopee Workshop, has written and edited Voices from the 'Hood: How to Start and Sustain a Writing Workshop for Youth-at-Risk, a manual for leading writing workshops, utilizing the AWAI method. It includes 106 exercises for young writers. Created in response to requests from participants in AWA's workshop leadership trainings, the book was inspired by 45 young adults who gathered in Robin's living room on Tuesday evenings for three years. They wrote about the trials and struggles of their lives and the lives of their family members. Chronicling the efforts, emotions, and experiences of these young writers and their leader over a 10-week session, this manual is for anyone forming a writing group with young adults. "Read this book in a supine position. Otherwise you'll be knocked on your butt. These are strong, dynamic voices... and their book is a graduate seminar in sociology. Robin Therrien is a talented writer and committed youth leader. Like a modern Pied Piper, using a pencil for a fife, she is determined to lead children to a better place. This is her road map." -Honorable W. Michael Ryan, First Justice, Northampton (MA) District Court To order this book, please contact AWA at: AMHERST WRITERS & ARTISTS
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