Online Workshops: AWWP conducts three online workshops taught by published authors and professors on a rotating basis. The AWWP writers are given weekly writing prompts, but are also encouraged to write about anything that moves them. After developing the work with the mentors, particularly in terms of deepening and thinking critically about their writing, the poems and essays go to the Editing Director to be given final touches before going online. This is the heart of our program.
Dari Workshop: Twice a month, participants in the Dari workshop are given writing prompts by our Country Director in Kabul and an Afghan woman journalist. The women share their work and ideas with one another during these workshops, often reading aloud their work to the group.
Reading Salons: Once a month in Kabul, English-speaking writers gather at AWWP’s Internet café to read aloud their work in progress and share in their writing experiences.
Women with Disabilities: AWWP has begun reaching out to women with disabilities to bring them into the project; they are often among the most marginalized in a society, which generally marginalizes all women. These women usually must be provided with Internet service, as getting out of the home is very difficult.
Oral Stories: AWWP is in process of developing an oral stories component to capture the voices and stories of women who lack literacy skills.
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