Nancie Atwell was the first person to influence my thinking about the power of writing workshop. It wasn’t until I began college myself that the whole notion of a writing territories list began to take shape inside my writer-mind. I can still remember how odd it felt to tote around my first list of budding [...]
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Writers Show Their Courage When….
August 3, 2009 – 7:24 pm
As a way to close our session today, some of the writers in our afternoon session thought about this prompt and began sharing their thinking. Here are what some of our bloggers had to say about what courageous writers do: They choose bold topics, that someone else might be afraid to choose. –Eliza They discuss [...]
Homecoming
August 3, 2009 – 5:58 am
Today was the first day of our Studio summer sessions, and it was wonderful in about a thousand different ways. The veteran fellows of our community are incredibly talented teachers and kids, and nearly all of them have returned this year. They’ve found company in a large cohort of new fellows as well, and it’s [...]
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