Caregivers and Families of Veterans Writing Workshop
SPRING WORKSHOP has not been scheduled at this time. If you're interested, please sign up for our newsletter through Veterans Writing Workshop and you will be notified of new dates and when registration is open. CLICK HERE to sign up. Just as every veteran has a story, every veteran's family member also has a story. By reading, listening, writing and telling these stories, we may come to realize that we are all, one way or another, part of the veterans' family. Last Spring, VWW together with MHA Orange / PFC Joseph P Dwyer Vet2Vet hosted a virtual 10 week writing workshop. Stories are in the anthology On the Homefront: Giving Care. |
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About UsFamilies of Veterans Writing Workshop is a special creative writing workshop just for you.
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"This course has been transformative for me…I cannot even tell you how helpful it was to me to hear my story repeated in others and to know that I am not alone." —Deb C.
Who We Are |
Julia Rust is associate instructor and program coordinator for the Veterans Writing Workshop (VWW) which provides free writing workshops for U.S. veterans and their family members in the NY Metropolitan area. Her short stories and nonfiction have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies including Nightscript Vol.3 and Vol.6, Cortland Review, Many Mountains Moving, Blue Penny Review, and On the Homefront. An advocate and organizer of community-based arts programs, she has served on the board of directors of the Hudson Valley Writers Center.
Founder, David Surface has over thirty years’ experience teaching writing to all age levels in a wide variety of community settings. A published fiction writer, essayist and journalist, David was awarded a 2005 Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts and was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize in fiction. He directs the Veterans Writing Workshop (www.veteranswritingworkshop.org) which provides free writing workshops for U.S. veterans and their family members. VWW works to establish writing programs for the veterans’ community in the New York Metropolitan area and points north. It was created as an outgrowth of a successful veterans’ writing program hosted by Fordham-Westchester University in Spring of 2010 as part of the National Endowment for the Arts’ The Big Read program. VWW consists of two major components: veterans’ community-based writing workshops held in a public space free of charge to all U.S. veterans, and veterans’ behavioral health writing programs offered in residential and behavioral health settings. |
Our History |
On the Homefront was originally established in partnership between VWW and Family Services of Westchester in 2014. In summer of 2015, we establish a partnership between VWW and White Plains Public Library. Our thanks go out to to Kathy Degyansky, Assistant Library Director, White Plains Public Library for her whole-hearted support and the Library's sponsorship. And in early 2021 we partnered with Caregivers Support at Hudson Valley VA and MHA Orange / PFC Joseph P Dwyer Vet2Vet to provide a virtual writing workshop for veterans Caregivers. Thanks to Anne Milliken, Karen Shogren, and Larry Neumann. Many thanks also to Bonnie Marcus of Poets & Writers, Inc. for helping to make these programs possible.
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