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Episode 241. Angela Burton – Founder, Feet-to-the-Fire Writer’s Workshops
Interviewed 11-19-2017
Episode 241. Angela Burton – Founder, Feet-to-the-Fire Writer’s Workshops
ABOUT ANGELA BURTON
Angela has been a devoted writing teacher to adults for more than 20 years & even briefly taught rambunctious 5th graders for 3 years! She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts & excels at providing expert facilitation, energetic encouragement, an infectious laugh & love of words.
So much so, in 2014, she founded Feet to the Fire Writer’s Workshops, & in 2015, she launched a specially designed workshop called Feet to the Fire Writers’ Workshops for Seniors, which engages elders in a stimulating writing/reminiscing workshop for those 65 & up! So far, her oldest student was-wait for it-104-not too shabby!
She has grown the program to date, offering more than 80 workshops to 450 elders in Louisville alone! Going forward, she plans to launch a workshop trainer program so others- as she puts it- can spread the fire even more throughout the USA! But let‘s back up to the beginning when she was only 10 yrs. old, & knew she wanted to be a writer & remembers well lying underneath a pink Dogwood tree in her front yard, scribbling & making up stories & her large family of brothers & sisters were willing to listen & encourage her to write even more!
Later, in the 8th grade, she had a story of hers published &, with the help of her teacher, was paid the modest sum of $25-she was hooked! It had nothing to do with the $$ or publishing BUT everything to do with the magic of words!
Today, a childhood talent has continued well into her adult life as she continues to write fiction, poetry, and memoirs & has studied with some of the greats, including Abigail Thomas, Ellen Lesser, Sena Jeter Naslund, & Antonya Nelson. Not to mention she reads like a mad woman & after prompting hundreds of people to write their life stories, she believes firsthand in the benefits of engaging the memory & the connection it provides with others, all the while savoring life’s moments in a very permanent way!
As she puts it, “The spark” @ age 10 has grown into a glowing fire that promises to never die!
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Episode 241. Angela Burton – Founder, Feet-to-the-Fire Writer’s Workshops
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