Green Windows has retired!
All programming ended in June, 2020. Read our last words here.
Green Windows provides a safe, creative environment where writers
of all experiences, ages, and backgrounds can write freely and deeply.
We use creative writing workshops to bring together people who might never otherwise cross paths. While we work with all ages, we know that there is something especially important to learn through writing with young adults.
Monthly workshops - see below
Teen Workshops - click here
All workshops use the Amherst Artists and Writers workshop method and are facilitated by Peggy Simmons unless otherwise indicated.
Teen Workshops - click here
All workshops use the Amherst Artists and Writers workshop method and are facilitated by Peggy Simmons unless otherwise indicated.
What is the impact of Green Windows workshops? After over ten years, participants agreed that
Green Windows grows artists & builds cross-cultural community.
Green Windows grows artists & builds cross-cultural community.
Uniquely Yours Workshop
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Teen workshop at BAMPFA
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Uniquely Yours Workshop
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Current Workshops:
Until further notice, all Green Windows workshops will be online due to sheltering-in-place to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Workshops for teens, adults, and mixed ages will be held according to interest and capacity.
Please sign up for our newsletter and indicate your interest in online workshops if you would like to join us.
Workshops for teens, adults, and mixed ages will be held according to interest and capacity.
Please sign up for our newsletter and indicate your interest in online workshops if you would like to join us.
Uniquely Yours Monthly Workshops
Our monthly creative writing workshops are for writers of all levels, experiences and genres. They are perfect for the just-beginning writer as well as practiced writers who need a new spark, want to take new risks, or seek community. Young adults 16 years old and older are especially encouraged to come.
In this Uniquely Yours workshop, you will develop your natural writing talents and the writer's voice that is unique to you. You have your own experiences, culture and personality that can feed rich writing only you can produce. Sandra Cisneros wrote in the introduction to her book The House on Mango Street that when she discovered the voice that was her own she was then able to talk and sound like herself: Then I could speak, shout, laugh from a place that was uniquely mine, that was no one else's in the history of the universe, that would never be anyone else's, ever. Join us and generate great writing from the place that is uniquely yours.
This workshop has been running monthly since March 2009!
In February 2018, we had our 100th Uniquely Yours workshop!
Many writers in this workshop have written about their experience on our blog.
Our monthly creative writing workshops are for writers of all levels, experiences and genres. They are perfect for the just-beginning writer as well as practiced writers who need a new spark, want to take new risks, or seek community. Young adults 16 years old and older are especially encouraged to come.
In this Uniquely Yours workshop, you will develop your natural writing talents and the writer's voice that is unique to you. You have your own experiences, culture and personality that can feed rich writing only you can produce. Sandra Cisneros wrote in the introduction to her book The House on Mango Street that when she discovered the voice that was her own she was then able to talk and sound like herself: Then I could speak, shout, laugh from a place that was uniquely mine, that was no one else's in the history of the universe, that would never be anyone else's, ever. Join us and generate great writing from the place that is uniquely yours.
This workshop has been running monthly since March 2009!
In February 2018, we had our 100th Uniquely Yours workshop!
Many writers in this workshop have written about their experience on our blog.
7 - 10 p.m. on the fourth Sunday of each month:
- We held our 127th and LAST Uniquely Yours Workshop on May 24th, 2020 -
- June 28th, 2020 -
We will be celebrating 12 years of Green Windows
and our retirement on this date.
This workshop will be online until further notice
. Sign up for our newsletter
and indicate your interest in online workshops to join us.
$1 - $50, sliding scale. Additional donations welcome.
Drop-ins welcome. Doors close at 7pm.
Winter 2020 Uniquely Yours workshops are supported in part by Poets & Writers.
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I have done some of my best writing in her workshops. Just two days ago I ran into someone I used to see at those workshops and she said the same thing. Some of her best writing. We are a varied bunch, college graduates and dropouts, comfortably off and just getting by, and we produce, under her guidance, writing worth listening to.
Nancy Schimmel, October 2015, Monthly workshop participant
Nancy Schimmel, October 2015, Monthly workshop participant
