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About Callie Feyen

Callie Feyen likes Converse tennis shoes and colorful high heels, reading the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the Twilight series. Her favorite outfit has always been a well-worn pair of jeans and a white T-shirt, but she wants hoop skirts with loads of tulle to come back into style. Her favorite line from literature comes from Sharon Creech’s Absolutely Normal Chaos: “I don’t know who I am yet. I’m still waiting to find out.” Feyen has served as the At-Risk Literacy Specialist in the Ypsilanti Public Schools and is the author of Twirl: my life with stories, writing & clothes and The Teacher Diaries: Romeo and Juliet. Find Callie at CallieFeyen.com.

Poetry Prompt: Poems of Experience

By Callie Feyen 8 Comments

Let your Took side win, and follow it on an adventure.

“The Hobbit” is more than a book for children. Callie Feyen considers how to learn from Bilbo and write poems of experience.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Living, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Romeo and Juliet, Tolkien, writer's group resources, Writing, writing prompt, writing prompts

Generosity with Self: When You’re In The Wrong Story

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Tuscany landscape for Henry VI & Generosity

Callie Feyen reflects on Henry VI and encourages Winchester to be generous enough with himself to leave when he’s in the wrong story.

Filed Under: Blog, Generous, Shakespeare

Poetry Prompt: ‘Twelfth Night’ and the Fool

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

What do you do when reading (or living) a difficult story? Callie Feyen suggests you consider poetry and Shakespeare’s Fool from ‘Twelfth Night.’

Filed Under: Blog, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Shakespeare, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Fiction Prompt: Chapter Four, Into the Gray with Campfire Pies

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Our fiction series continues as Carter moves deeper into the gray, with campfire pies. Join author Callie Feyen for chapter 4.

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction, writer's group resources, Writing, writing prompt, writing prompts

Poetry Prompt: At Home Poems

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

This year might mean not being at home for the holidays. Join us and look for poetry in your (perhaps) altered plans with this prompt.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Fiction Prompt: Chapter 3, Snowflake Lights, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and Pumpkin-Spiced Whoopee Pies

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Our fall into fiction series continues with snowflake lights, Shakespeare sonnets, and whoopee pies. Join author Callie Feyen for chapter 3.

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, shakespeare sonnets, Sonnets, writer's group resources

Poetry Prompt: Beauty in a Pandemic

By Callie Feyen 9 Comments

There is beauty — even in a pandemic. These days after Thanksgiving, follow a poetry prompt about the natural beauty you are grateful for.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Listening for Stories: Knitting Lessons

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Purple thistle - knitting lessons story

Through a poignant story about learning to knit, Callie Feyen reflects on beginnings, endings, and reminders of mortality.

Filed Under: Blog, Wisdom

Poetry Prompt: What a Memory Is

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

What is a memory? A 96-year-old woman and a small boy are searching for the answer. Author Callie Feyen searches for poetry in what they find.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Stories, Memory, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Fiction Prompt: Chapter Two, Shakespeare Symphony Project and Slightly Famous French Bread

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Fall means fiction! Join author Callie Feyen in chapter 2 of Carter’s story, which combines memorizing Shakespeare with making music.

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction, writing prompt

I Could Tell You Stories: Hope for the Mighty Bird

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Hummingbird in greens

Revisiting a long-ago read collection of Patricia Hampl stories leads Callie Feyen down a path of mystery and wonder and memory.

Filed Under: Blog

Poetry Prompt: Do Something You Love And Tell About It

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

What would you do if your teacher gave you this assignment: Do something you love and then tell about it? Join author Callie Feyen as she and her daughters try to complete the task.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Poetry Prompt: Consider the Pumpkin Vine

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

What happens when you take sadness and joy on a walk through a pumpkin patch? Callie Feyen leads a poetry prompt using a poem by Uncle Mose.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

Fiction Prompt: Chapter 1, Apple Fritter Bread

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Callie Feyen

Fall means fiction! Join us as author Callie Feyen unfolds a new story, chapter by chapter. Bonus: an apple fritter recipe.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Fiction

Winter Stars Book Club: Comedy – “Auras in Suburbia”

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

Winter Stars Auras in Suburbia

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Winter Stars Book Club: Fantasy – “To The Shadows We Return”

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

Winter Stars dark flower

In this week’s book club discussion of the short plays in Sonia Barkat’s Winter Stars, Callie Feyen considers the complexities of love and friendship in the fantasy play, “To the Shadows We Return.”

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Patron Only, Winter Stars

Winter Stars Book Club: Tragedy – Winter Stars

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Hot springs winter stars book club

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Book Club Announcement: ‘Winter Stars’ by Sonia Barkat

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Sonia Barkat

In September, Callie Feyen leads our next book club discussion of Sonia Barkat’s ‘Winter Stars: three 10-minute plays.’ Come play with us.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Patron Only, Winter Stars

Poetry Prompt: Dor

By Callie Feyen 11 Comments

The word dor invites us to embrace loneliness rather than overcome it. This week Callie Feyen has a poetry prompt about accepting our aches.

Filed Under: Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Poetry Prompt: Seeing Stars

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Have you ever received a gift you didn’t know you needed? Join Callie Feyen on a summer night of seeing stars and learning to let go.

Filed Under: Blog, Night Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

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