A Resource for Teachers of Creative Writing
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Flipping the Map: Lessons in Place Writing
Julija Šukys
Self-Portrait as an Opera Girl: A Lesson in Collecting Material
Laura Sweeney
Pedagogy Papers
Using the OCEAN Model to Develop Characters
Sarah Joy Adams
Building Characters: Method as Form, Madness as Content
Thomas Allbaugh
Ruin/Repair/Rewrite: A Creative Writing Activity Sequence
Rebecca Arrowsmith
Method Writing and Stanislavski: Experience and Immersion in Fiction
Garrett Ashley
Poetry As Conversation: Renga As a Class Project
Roy Beckemeyer
Write a Bad Poem Contest
Elizabeth Bodien
To See the Poem Again: Teaching Revision
Wendy Call
Harnessing the Muse with Unlikely Duos
Miriam Calleja
Refrigerator Masterpieces: Pre-K Artists and Productive Feedback
Neil Connelly
The Worst Mother’s Day Poem Ever: A Quick Lesson in the Power of Imagery
Neil Connelly
Nonfiction as Truth-Writing
Jacey de la Torre
“I Feel Like I’ve Heard This Somewhere”: A Digital Dialogue Exercise
Michael Dean Clark
A Case for Workshop Alternatives
Karen Craigo
The Case for Exploring Popular Texts in Writing
Jason D. DeHart
Painting Language: Writing with Words and Pictures
Jason D. DeHart
It’s 10 PM: Do You Know Where Your Character Is?
Margot DeSalvo
Collaborative Genre Fiction: A Group Writing Exercise
John Gerard Fagan
Using Letter Writing to Find Balance in Creative Nonfiction
John Gerard Fagan
A Vygotskian Creative Writing Frame
John Gerard Fagan
A House Is a Home Is a Human: A Writing Prompt
John Findura
The Mindful Zombie: An Exercise to Enhance Tone
Kristen Figgins
Calming the Inner Critic
Diane Forman
The Whole Elephant
Diane Forman
Get Real: Ethnography for Writers
Sandra Giles
Writing for Your Life: A Final Assignment
Mary Gilliland
Setting up an Afterschool Elementary Poetry Club
Vicky MacDonald Harris
Crafting after Inspiration: Using Sylvia Plath’s “Stings” to Teach Revision
Ann Hart
On Teaching Students to Love Their Darlings
Melody Heide
Deliberate Omission: Compositional Ellipsis in Visual Art and Writing
Caitlin Horrocks
Keeping to Our Sources: Craft Interviews with Students
Brent House
Atmospheric Pressure: A Ready-to-Go Lesson Plan
Destiny Howell
Poetry by Vote: Group Villanelles
Melissa Fite Johnson
Sijo: Teaching Korean Poetry through Examples and Discussion
Elizabeth Jorgensen
Learning to Throw Away…Or Maybe Not: Writing a Collective Poem to Teach Revision
Les Kay
Stick Figures in Action: Teaching Revision through Storyboarding
Barbara Krasner
Centering Agency and Emotion: Craft Sheets for Building Whole-Person Protagonists in Fiction
Rebecca Lauren
Tipping the Scales of Creative Nonfiction: Rating Systems in the Wild
Bethany Lee
New Alchemy: Using Poetry to Reimagine Disciplinary Knowledge
Angelo J. Letizia
One and Done: Tips for Running a Virtual Drop-In Workshop
Alison Lowenstein
In the Middle of Missouri, in the Middle of Pennsylvania: A Portable Exercise on Place
Marjorie Maddox & Gary R. Hafer
Word Lab: Micro-Experiments with Craft
Laura Malafarina
The Writing Laboratory: A Group Exercise
Katie Manning
Process, Not Product
Adrian Markle
How to Write and Perform Multi-Voice Poetry
Ashby McGowan
The Slanted Truth as Told Through Fabulism
Catherine Moore
Creative Writing “Fieldwork”: Responding to the World Beyond the Classroom
Jennifer Moore
Get the Banana: A Lesson in Action
Mike Moran
The Class You Want I Do Not Teach
N. West Moss
Defining Characters through Negation of Action
Katie Darby Mullins
I Can’t Be Held Responsible: Using ’90s Rock for Creation
Katie Darby Mullins
Teaching Form & Meaning as a Foundation for Figurative Language
Annaleta Nichols
Approaches in Community Education
Robert Nisbet
Seven Days of Strangeness (and Index Cards)
Julie Platt
The Golden Shovel: An Introduction to Formal Poetry
Jeremy Michael Reed
Writing What You Know: Drawing on Students’ Quirky Expertise to Create Authority in Creative Nonfiction
Nancy Reddy
What I Learned Teaching at the Retirement Home
Rob Roensch
Replica as New Revision: A Flash Technique
Forrest Roth
Concluding Lines: Image, Color, and a Prompt
Margaret Rozga
Permission to Suck: Trust the Process
Ki Russell
Take Your Reader to Work Day: Writing Detail and Description
Richard Ryal
Five Lessons to Generate Ideas, Content, and Discussion
Aaron Sandberg
But This Is a History Class: Yelp Reviews, Ghost Stories, & Multi-Genre Writing
Brett Jordan Schmoll
Translating Hip-Hop into Shakespeare: A Code-Switching Exercise
Candice Kaup Scioscia
Descriptive Writing and Mindfulness: How One Reinforces the Other
Bupinder Singh
Illustrated Limericks: A Service-Learning Project
Kristen Sipper-Denlinger
The Trapeze: Teaching Trust in Creative Writing
Cassie Premo Steele
Divine Reading for Reflective Writing
Jacob Stratman
Improving Peer Critique Through Focused Speed Dating
E. K. Taylor
Teaching Style Through Stylistic Destruction
E. K. Taylor
Snowball Dialogue
Donnie Welch
The Story Pattern: Plotting Short Stories Made Easy
Gary Charles Wilkens
168-Hour Endeavor
Beverly Army Williams
Contract Grading in the Creative Writing Classroom
Beverly Army Williams
Dance Moves: Using Video Clips to Surprise Students into Writing
Keri Withington
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