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John Sterling Steps Down as President of Holt
John Sterling is stepping down as president and publisher of Henry
Holt after nine years in the position, and will become executive vice
president and editor-at-large at Macmillan, Holt's parent company.
Sterling leaves the helm after a record-breaking year for Holt in terms of sales, profits, and bestsellers.
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Teachers Lounge
Read what your colleagues have to say about the craft and theory of writing and teaching.
Bridging the Gap: How to Teach Creative Writing Across the Generational Divide
by Aaron Hamburger
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Resources
An updated list of recently released titles of special relevance to teachers and student writers.
NEW BOOKS FOR WRITERS & TEACHERS
This
list, arranged alphabetically by title, features recently published
anthologies, essay collections, guides, and resources for writers and
teachers. If you have a book you'd like us to consider including,
please send a copy to Editor, Poets & Writers Magazine, 90 Broad Street, Suite 2100, New York, NY 10004.
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Ideas and opinions to spur reflection and debate.
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Exercises to help your students find inspiration for their work.
In “Bride in Beige: A Poet’s Approach to Memoir” (Poets & Writers Magazine, page 33), Mark Doty writes of his experience in building memoir out of memory. He notes that while “plenty of the past is unclear,” certain images remain “crystalline”—such as his sister’s beige suit in her wedding photograph. Draft a poem that begins with a similarly clear image of one object, keepsake, or photograph from your past. Try describing the one item in detail, and then see if the larger truth or importance of the item emerges as you further develop the poem.
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Workshop: A Rant Against Creative Writing Classes
“Can you really teach creative writing?” Professor and novelist Dan Barden answers this while offering his own unorthodox approaches to teaching a workshop.
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Q&A: Director Quang Bao Steps Down
Former executive director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Quang Bao talks about his tenure with the organization and its influence on Asian literature over the past seventeen years.
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The Written Image: Jellyfish
A look at Jellyfish, winner of best debut feature at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and written and directed by Etgar Keret, an Israeli fiction writer, whose most recent collection of stories, The Girl on the Fridge, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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