writers group

Touchstone Writers Workshops

Held at 100 Wurts Street, Kingston, NY 12401

What’s on your mind?
CFD hosts writing workshops for both beginners and more seasoned writers who want to put pen to paper—or finger tips on keys—to tell their unique stories. And we all have a unique story to tell.

Following the Amherst Writers & Artists method, Ann Hutton offers provocative prompts to get the creative juices flowing. AWA founder Pat Schneider believed that everyone has the capacity to write. Most importantly, writing skills can be learned through positive support. An AWA workshop is a safe, confidential space in which anyone can delve into their memories and express themselves creatively.

Whether that means honing a piece for publication or creating a legacy will to pass down to friends and family, you will benefit from expressing yourself and receiving affirmative feedback. You will learn to listen for what works in another’s writing. And you will know that practicing the craft with others can be a rewarding and enlightening experience.

When people write together and share their work, something magical happens. To know others and be known authentically validates your place in life, however impermanent it may be.

“The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.” David Whyte

If you have additional questions, you can contact Ann by email, clicking here.

Parking is on the street or at the McEntee Street intersection, in the church parking lot across from the Redeemer Lutheran Church. We look forward to seeing you there!