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An Invitation: To Be In Each Other’s Orbit

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she encourages us to build a sharing list to help us better orbit each other this holiday season.

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Writing Prompt: Open Wide Your Wounded, Wonderful Heart

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

What book helps you write from your wounded and wonderful heart? Author Callie Feyen discusses teaching “Walk Two Moons.”

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Poetry Prompt: Observation Poems

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Observation poems lead to action. Join author Callie Feyen as she reads, writes, and acts on Dave Malone’s poem “Tornado Drill.”

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Discovered in the Bodleian: “The Lost Tales of Sir Galahad”

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

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“The Lost Tales of Sir Galahad” explain what really happened to the famed knight after he went searching for the Holy Grail. Sort of.

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Poetry Prompt: Giving and Receiving with Creative Nonfiction

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Join author Callie Feyen as she explores ways of giving and receiving with creative nonfiction as a guide.

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Poetry Prompt: A spiral staircase, anxiety, and the sestina

By Callie Feyen 34 Comments

What can a spiral show us?

Join Callie Feyen and walk a spiral staircase with Tania Runyan, poet and author of “How to Write a Form Poem,” in order to understand the sestina.

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Pretty Close To ‘A’ — For Beverly Cleary

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

In honor of Beverly Cleary, author Callie Feyen reminisces about her first encounter with Newbery-award winner “Dear Mr. Henshaw.”

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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.

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Poetry Prompt: What Kind of Quiet?

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

How many kinds of quiet do you find (and feel) in your day? Join author Callie Feyen as she explores the many kinds of quiet that seep through our days.

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Poetry Prompt: Mysterious Observation turned into Poetry

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

What mysteries do you notice throughout your day? Join author Callie Feyen as she attempts to help a young writer turn those mysteries into a prompt for poetry.

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At Home With Books: A Dark and Stormy Night

By Deva Curnutte 8 Comments

A Dark and Stormy Night

A crack of thunder starts a reading journey through Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and A Wrinkle in Time. Join Deva Curnutte on a dark and stormy night at home with books.

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On Finding Stories—And Maybe Myself

By Callie Feyen 12 Comments

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Callie Feyen invites readers to consider not just what is in a picture, but what’s not in the picture, when finding the story to tell.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Finding Inspiration, Writing Life

Eating and Drinking Poems: Storytelling and Luci Shaw’s “Eating the Whole Egg”

By Laura Lynn Brown 14 Comments

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Any family story has multiple versions: what I remember, what you remember, what really happened. Laura Brown reflects on truth, fact, and the whole egg.

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Adjuster Stories: Storytelling as an Intentional Act

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Storytelling as an Intentional Act snowy woods scene

When you wind up in one of those places that feels like it has the makings of a B horror movie, you might as well start telling the story right then. Will Willingham has an adjuster story reminding us of how storytelling can be a way of understanding.

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Top 10 Anne of Avonlea Quotes

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Anne of Avonlea Top Quotes Red Hair

Are you a fan of the beloved L.M. Montgomery novels? Enjoy 10 great quotes from Anne of Avonlea and share your favorite with us.

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Adjustments: The Series

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

The Adjuster Open Road

Is it true that claim adjusters tell the best stories? Find out for yourself with our subscriber-only fiction series, Adjustments.

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Read for Fun—Reading Yourself into the Story

By Lakin Easterling 13 Comments

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Where and how do you read for fun? As part of the growing #read4fun conversation on Twitter, Lakin Easterling shares her secrets for reading for fun.

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The Faraway Nearby Book Club: We Tell Ourselves Stories

By Will Willingham 35 Comments

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In The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit writes that “we tell ourselves stories in order to live.” In this week’s book club, we discuss the power of story. Join us.

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The Little House on the Prairie is Still There

By Will Willingham 29 Comments

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A visit to the scene of Little House on the Prairie reminds us that, sometimes, it’s the telling of a story that makes it extraordinary.

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