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Students’ Testimonials
Here’s the thing about TWS: I’m writing! An idea I’ve held for years, without focus or understanding of how to bring it out, this year is now a manuscript, imperfect and nascent but still, alive. A fact entirely due to the alchemy of this programme which includes expert, insightful, and patient mentors, fellow students who show up to read my work and guest lecturers of great quality, who open new ways of seeing, new ways of doing.
— Renée Sarojini Saklikar, TWS 2009
When I started TWS, I knew I needed to write but I was terrible at motivating myself to do it. Nine months later, I am still terrible at motivating myself to write—yet I have nearly completed a draft of a whole book about my mother.
While she was alive, her mental illness made our relationship a heavy cross to bear. Three years after her death, the cross has not grown any lighter.
To workshop this intensely personal writing in the group has been an experience encompassing all shades of joy and pain, frustration and exhilaration.
I felt I could trust my readers, and received feedback that was always useful even when I did not like or agree with it.
And I could not have asked for a better mentor than Wayde Compton: his genre-bending sensibilities were in tune with my multiple experiences as a reader, a writer, and a person.
—Amalia Pistilli, TWS 2009
