Here’s some early praise for Alison’s work:

“With her keen eye, with her precise ear for just the right descriptive word, Alison Hicks’s poems enlarge daily life.  Whether running into the father of a childhood friend who committed suicide, or meditating on Chekhov, or reciting the mantra of drugs used to treat migraines, Hicks transforms daily experience into something larger, and more transcendent.  Her poems glow.” — Kim Roberts, author of Animal Magnetism, The Kimnama, and The Wishbone Galaxy and editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly.

“In their provocative discontinuities, their subtle fracturings, their stops and starts, Alison Hicks’ poems often evoke a provisionality which is the essence of embodied thought, as we squint to apprehend it, as we stutter to parse it out, as we stagger into its illuminations.  How men and women surface out of their childhoods; how longing extends itself to the friend on the telephone, the man glimpsed in the street; how our bodies and our minds betray us inexorably into loss – these are mysteries, and Hicks acknowledges their occultation even as she presses us to perceive their complex significance.  One poem here poses ‘accuracy’ against ‘clarity’ – a fine distinction – but Alison Hicks’ strong vision offers us both.” — Nathalie Anderson, author of Quiver, Crawlers, and Following Fred Astaire

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“He proves on every page that he knows what it means to be human.”
-Barry Graham, The Short Review

“Randall Brown’s stories leave readers feeling they too have lived many childhoods. Readers close his chapbook more aware of the dangers of family, but also the absolute necessity for it, and for fiction. Life and life represented.”
-Heather Bergstrom, Word Riot

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“That the man could work a crowd with the ease of a standup comic concealed, or at least mitigated, the pain inherent in much of his work. He was a performer, but, more than that, he was a poet — one who loved his audience and wanted nothing more than to connect on the most human of levels.” – Marc Schuster

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From internationally published author Julie Compton (Tell No Lies, Rescuing Olivia) to first-time poet Marsha Pincus, Prompted’s connective tissue lies in a deep love and respect for the craft of writing. Prompted is edited by Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio Director Alison Hicks, the author of the novella, Love: A Story of Images, and Falling Dreams, a volume of poetry.

Hicks began the Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio (GPWS) in October1996 with five people who met for three hours once a week in a church in Center City, Philadelphia. The process was the same then as it is today, and the Center City workshop still meets in that same church. Hicks began a similar workshop in the Delaware County/Main Line in 1999.

“I did not create the process,” Hicks says of the GPWS method. “It is the Amherst Writers & Artists method, brainchild of Pat Schneider, with whom I studied in the early 1980s. The core beliefs underlying it are simple and true: everyone has creative genius and a unique voice and vision to offer the world. The workshops aim to cultivate that voice.”

The anthology is available for purchase through PS Books, Amazon, and all major bookstores.

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Coming this spring: a new anthology from Alison Hicks’ Greater Philadelphia Wordship Studio, which has worked with nearly 200 Delaware Valley writers. This first anthology showcases the best of the varied and diverse voices that have enriched and delighted the workshop over the past 13 years.