Elizabeth Ayres

Currently  finishing her memoir, After Exile, Home, Elizabeth is available to teach workshops throught the world. She also offers on-line workshops and writing retreats in New Mexico. Visit her web site at http://www.CreativeWritingCenter.com

Elizabeth's newest book, Writing the Wave: Inspired Rides for Aspiring Writers is now available at your local bookstore.You can also get a 2-tape cassette version of Writing the Wave and a comprehensive audio learning series called The Ultimate Creative Writing Workshop from Sounds True Audio .

Ms. Ayres' poetry has won first prize in several national competitions. Listed with the Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers, she's published in The Worcester Review, Hanging Loose, The Malahat Review, Aspect, Encore, Bitterroot, The Calvert Review, the anthology Fresh Paint (Ailanthus Press, 1978). She's performed her poems in venues as diverse as The Library of Congress, Voice of America, the Woodstock Library and New York City's Telephone Bar. Her innovative teaching work has been hailed by New York Magazine, WBAI, New York Newsday, The Village Voice and the Woodstock Times.

Elizabeth Ayres has a Master's Degree in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, where she was the Cornelia Ward Fellow for 1973-74. She has taught writing for twenty-five years, at New York University and the College of New Rochelle; through Poets-in-the-Schools and Poets & Writers; in libraries, Senior Citizen Centers and other public forums.

In 1990, Ms. Ayres founded The Elizabeth Ayres Center for Creative Writing, which is dedicated to the belief that the individual undergoes a personal metamorphosis as she or he creates a work of art, and that the work can then contribute to the transformative process of others. At the Center, writers learn that they can play a vital role in society as it struggles to evolve. The Center is committed to establishing for writers the conditions necessary for the creative spirit to flourish. These include nurturing instruction, supportive community and a common endeavor towrard the common goal of taking work out into a world that needs it. The Center is both training ground and launching pad, as many published writers who got started there can affirm. More importantly, the Center is a refuge where creativity takes pride of place and every writer is encouraged to grow to his or her full potential. It welcomes all people who desire to ezpress themselves through the written word, no matter how little or how much experience they may have. The Center has grown from six students and one workshop in 1990 to over 1,000 students and numerous workshops today. It offers the revolutionary writing program, Writing the Wave, writing retreats, writing salons.

Other works include:
Seeking & Finding performed at Pen & Brush Club; The Gardener , commissioned and presented at Judge Gallery, NYC.

 

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