WRITING INSTRUCTOR AND COACH
With more than twenty-five years of experience as a writer and teacher, Andrew offers workshops from Paris to San Francisco, and teaches privately as a writing coach in fiction and nonfiction. With an MFA in Creative Writing and trained in co-active coaching by CTI (The Coaches Training Institute), he has coached writers of all levels of experience, published and unpublished.
As a writing coach, Andrew reads and responds to proposals and manuscripts, recommends and discusses readings, responds to questions, and suggests a wide range of techniques and practices, learned and adapted over many years. When desired, he will advise clients on paths to publication, and on working with agents and editors.
If you would like to explore the possibility of working together, please contact Andrew below.
"In the year I’ve worked with Andrew, my writing has improved far beyond what I expected. Andrew's passion for the craft is infectious, and he combines that enthusiasm with a methodical teaching approach which breaks theory down into deliberate, repeatable practice.” —Diana B.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Andrew taught at Stanford for fifteen years, through the Department of Biology, the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, the Stanford Storytelling Project, Honors in the Arts and the Stanford Medical School. He served as a Resident Fellow from 2013-2018, supporting more than 200 students in Stanford’s arts-themed dorm. In support of the whole student, he integrates meditative practices, creative exercises and wilderness training into many of his courses, including expeditions to Mount Shasta and igloo building in Yosemite Valley.
In a writing and meditation course Andrew designed, the class culminated in a three-day silent retreat in the dunes of Death Valley. During the retreat, students meditated alone in the high dunes during the day and prepared simple meals silently in groups in the mornings and evenings. Following these retreats, students spoke consistently of the profound and often life changing transformations they would experience in the dunes.
Student reviews of Andrew’s courses at Stanford:
“The best course I have taken at Stanford.”
“One of the more important classes you may ever take.”
“This is one of those classes that changes who you are as a person. It is something you will never forget.”
“This class challenged who I am and the way that I relate to the world, and I am deeply grateful…. It will live on in me for the rest of my life.”
Photo credit: Stanford students on an igloo- building expedition in Yosemite Valley. Image by Andrew Todhunter.