The new issue of CultureWork (7/09) has an interesting article about groups that bring people together to write about their ideas and experiences and share them with others. "Writing Together: The Art of Community Writing Organizations" by Jennifer Furl discusses the work of organizations like Write Around Portland, InkTank in Cincinnati, the N.Y. Writers Coalition in New York City and the Neighborhood Writing Alliance in Chicago. "Most of these groups offer writing workshops to adults living on low incomes who may not otherwise have access to these kinds of opportunities," writes Furl, a writer and editor living in Portland. She examines the transformative effect of of these workshops by looking at their main components: engaging in the act of writing, sharing writing with an audience of peers, and receiving feedback from others in the group. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham