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Books by Pat Schneider
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Another River: New and Selected Poems, published by Amherst Writers & Artists Press, 2005. $20.00; Paperback. ISBN 0941895-30-0 |
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Writing Alone and with Others, Pat Schneider, Paper $18.95;
Paperback, ISBN 0-19-516572-1, 416 pp Published by Oxford University Press Available in bookstores everywhere.
More information, courtesy of Oxford University Press:
Now, in Writing Alone and with Others, Schneider's acclaimed methods are available in a single well-organized and highly readable volume. The first part of the book guides the reader through the perils of the solitary writing life: fear, writer's block, and the bad habits of the internal critic. In the second section, Schneider describes the Amherst Writers and Artists workshop method, widely used across the U.S. and abroad. Chapters on fiction and poetry address matters of technique and point to further resources, while more than a hundred writing exercises offer specific ways to jumpstart the blocked and stretch the rut-stuck. Schneider's innovative teaching method will refresh the experienced writer and encourage the beginner. Her book is the essential owner's manual for the writer's voice. "Honesty is creative oxygen. Generosity is creative fire. Pat Schneider is a fuse lighter. Her work is gentle, playful, brilliant, and revolutionary. She is the real animal."--Julia Cameron, author of The Right to Write and The Artist's Way "For anyone who wants to write, Writing Alone and with Others is heartening and practical. It unfolds as the story of one writer's journey, and invites the aspiring writer along with a rich variety of anecdote, exercise and advice, celebrating both difference and difficulty as the gifts they are."--Janet Burroway, author of Raw Silk and Writing Fiction "I am grateful to Pat Schneider for recognizing that our species is a writing species. If we don't write, it means something in the culture has blocked our natural instinct... [This] helpful, totally personable book shows us how to undo that cultural abuse." --Carol Bly, author of Beyond the Writer's Workshop and My Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories "Schneider can help you find your genius. She encourages without ever condescending. She is guide, cheerleader, and advocate. 'What you see, write it,' she counsels. 'Surprise yourself.' You'll find exercises here that will help you do it. The second part of the book, focusing on 'writing with others,' can help the workshop leader or teacher create the kind of atmosphere in which 'images pass in silence from mind to mind,' as writers are affirmed and energized by experiencing creativity, their own and others'."--Marshall J. Cook, author and editor of Creativity Connection "An entertaining and enlightening book...should prove invaluable to poets, writers, teachers, and workshop devotees of all backgrounds and creative denominations."--Mindy Kronenberg, poet and teacher, author of Dismantling the Playground and editor of Book/Mark A companion DVD for Pat's new book, Writing Alone and with Others is available. The DVD was produced by Florentine Films/Hott Productions - Purchase both Writing Alone and with Others and the companion DVD for $40.00 plus $2.50 shipping. |
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The Patience of Ordinary Things, Pat Schneider, Amherst Writers & Artists Press $8.00 (plus $2.00 p&h if ordered separately) Chapbook, ISBN 0-941895-26-2, 38 pp The Patience of Ordinary Things is a 38 page chapbook of poems. The title poem won first prize in a broadside contest, and is also available for framing with art work by water color artist Kate Jenkins. |
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Special Discount - The Writer as an Artist (first edition), Pat Schneider, published at $22.95; special discounted offer: $15.00 plus $2.50 postage & handling -- Just a few copies left. (This early book contains a few chapters that are identical to the later, larger book, Writing Alone and With Others) Hardcover, ISBN 1-56565-073-5; 241pp Out of print at Lowell House, a limited number of hard cover copies are available from the author. Click here for information on ordering. This book offers help to individual writers and to leaders of writing groups. Included are 50 writing exercises. "I'm excited to see this useful and eloquent book." -Peter Elbow. "A kind of love letter from one writer to other writers... this most reassuring book on writing." -Sojourner |
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Wake Up Laughing, A Spiritual Autobiography, Pat Schneider, Amherst Writers & Artists Press, Paperback edition, $18.00 ISBN 0-942544-54-4, 197pp "...this book is terrific... very compelling - skeptical, generous, funny, straight-talking, wry - not a drop of grandstanding or fakery..." -Paul Jenkins, Editor, The Massachusetts Review. "I recommend this story as a directive compass for those who go in search of their own holy beginnings. I was inspired to do so myself." -Edith Sollwold, Ph.D., author, teacher at the Jung Institute, Switzerland. |
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Olive Street Transfer, Pat Schneider, Amherst Writers & Artists Press, $16.00 Paperback, ISBN 0-941895-17-3, 86 pp Available only from author. A collection of poems in which Pat "encourages us to dare to leave behind our old selves" -Sandra Martz. "This collection is particularly exciting because it offers the arc of Schneider's work from some favorite early poems through new work that reflects the range of her commitment to social justice, her humor, and the exploration of intimate landscapes and relationships." -Sue Walker, poet and founder/editor, Negative Capability Press, and Poet Laureate of Alabama. |
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In Our Own Voices: Writings by Women in Low Income Housing, Pat Schneider, Editor. Available only from: Amherst Writers & Artists Press 190 University Drive, Amherst, MA 01004. Telephone 413-253-3307. $14.00 Paperback, ISBN 0-941895-04-1, 106pp Writing by women in low-income housing projects. Excellent resource for women's studies, social work, literature of the oppressed. "...These writers... possess a richness of self-knowledge which enables them to split open the world of gender and class injustice with the force of unique and compelling details." -Joyce Avrech Berkman, Professor of History, founding member Women's Studies Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. |
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Long Way Home, Pat Schneider, Amherst Writers & Artists Press, $14.00 Paperback, ISBN 0-941895-11-4, 96pp OUT OF PRINT A favorite collection of Pat's poems."She is opening doors that let us see . . ." -Sue Walker. "The poems are finely made . . . a thread of natural praise runs through her collection . . . will appeal to pilgrims whether knowing or unaware." -Small Press Magazine |
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White River Junction, , Pat Schneider, Amherst Writers & Artists Press, $10.00 Paperback, ISBN 0-941895-00-9, 33pp OUT OF PRINT Poetry (chapbook). "... quiet, joyful poems... gently explores the troubled and sometimes murky currents of love, faith, and doubt that buffet and guide every person." -Bellingham Review |
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For more than a quarter century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds--the award winning, the struggling, and those who have been silenced by poverty and hardship. Her innovative methods have worked in classrooms from elementary to graduate level, in jail cells and public housing projects, in convents and seminaries, in youth at-risk programs, and with groups of the terminally ill.
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