I'm happy to say that The Writing Shop: Putting 'Shop' back in Writing Workshop is included in Ezvid Wiki's list of "Thoughtful Books About Teaching And Education." The video highlights five recently published education books, including The Writing Shop, for investigating the ways we learn and reimagining the ways we teach. I'm in incredible company…
I had this piece about my mom. What I call a small wonder, because I don't see it as long and developed enough to be an essay, to do the particular work of an essay. Some call it micro, flash, short. Pieces like this seem bigger than they are. So I had one like that.…
In my small wonders workshop, we examine and craft creative nonfiction pieces that fall under 1000 words. I use that word limit because it's how Creative Nonfiction categorizes a "short read." Other markets stop sooner: Brevity caps out at 750 words; River Teeth’s weekly column “Beautiful Things” limits work to 250 words; and 100 Word Story asks for exactly…
Every Pigeon is a beautiful online home to pieces that sweat the small stuff. Editors say of the work, "In each poem, essay, story, and artwork, our contributors lent us their own special magnifying lenses, which hover in perpetuity over particular spots in this beautiful world. Look closer, each one said. See what we see." I'm sad…
"Does a book remember it once was a word?" —Nina Laden
