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A Hairy Situation [ by Charles Coe ]
Nowadays just turning on TV news or glancing at a newspaper headline is enough to make you want to hide in the broom closet or go work on a ferret ranch in Montenegro. The…
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Unleash Creativity Part 2: Emulate the Masters [by Tess Callahan]
For my students’ first poetry assignment this year, I distributed a dozen past issues of BEST AMERICAN POETRY along with other anthologies snatched from my shelf and asked them to browse through and settle…
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Unleash Creativity Part 1: Give Students Chains to Break [by Tess Callahan]
Give your students a Houdini challenge. Having taught creative writing for more than ten years now, I’ve found the most restrictive assignments, the ones they gnash their teeth over, invite the most inventive work,…
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Tess Callahan, Guest Author December 7-11
This week we welcome back Tess Callahan as our guest author. Tess is the author of the novel APRIL & OLIVER published by Grand Central Publishing (USA), Random House (UK), and by publishers in Italy…
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Much Depends on Dinner: Cooking Latkes with Gabriella Gershenson [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
"Fried things are highly popular at any celebration: they add a piquant variety to the menu; they are nice to look at, possess all of their original flavor, and can be eaten with the…
