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The Lens of Leaving
Teaching Pablo Neruda and Bei Dao.
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Decolonize Your Process
Liberating creative writing from white supremacy culture.
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In Praise of Calmness
Finding resistance in the ordinary.
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The Ethics and Artistics of Generative AI
What I learned using ChatGPT to write an academic paper.
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Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Banned book writing prompts.
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Beyond the Darkness
Teaching “true crime” memoir as a crime survivor.
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Distillation and Transplantation
Teaching early writers to transform lived experience into fiction.
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Better Brainstorming
Teaching early writers to generate ideas for fiction.
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Liberating Narrative
Teaching in the shadow of the college admissions essay.
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How to Pick a Lock
Rediscovering wonder in the blank page.
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You Must Be Proud
Food-themed narrative writing with Amy Tan’s “Fish Cheeks.”
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What the Sound Wants to Say
An approach to story and memory through rhythm.
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
Banned book writing prompts.
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Word into Idea
An aleatory exercise for young poets.
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Maus by Art Spiegelman
Banned book writing prompts.
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When the Page Goes White
Coaching “flow” to reluctant writers.
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Embodied Spaces
Reimagining the creative writing classroom for disabled access.
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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Banned book writing prompts.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Banned book writing prompts.
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Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Banned book writing prompts.
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Like Cutting a Watermelon with a Sharp Knife
On haiku and cultivating a receptivity for imagery.
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Everybody Wants a Donut
An in-class demonstration that shows, not tells, the elements of story.
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A Novel Idea
How a reading specialist used fiction writing to instill confidence in her students.
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What Do I Know?
Engaging with the borrowed wisdom of the cento.
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Let’s Play
Writing for the stage.
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Words with Wings and Magic Things
A conversation with Matthew Burgess.
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Innovation in the Creative Writing Classroom
A conversation with the 2025 Bechtel Prize winners.
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A Bridge Built of Art and Words
Writing fables with English language learners.
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The (Sm)art of Rap
Teaching the elements of poetry through rap.
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I Am a Cartographer of Fear
Teaching horror and Dante’s Inferno in an age of anxiety.