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  • "Story is Story, No Matter the Medium" Playwright & Writing Teacher Diane Flacks on Finding "the Why" of Your Writing
    "Story is Story, No Matter the Medium" Playwright & Writing Teacher Diane Flacks on Finding "the Why" of Your Writing
    September 03, 2019

    "Story is Story, No Matter the Medium" Playwright & Writing Teacher Diane Flacks on Finding "the Why" of Your Writing

    Diane Flacks is no stranger to posing provocative questions in her work as a playwright. Her newest play, Unholy (Playwrights Canada Press), delves into a big one: Should women abandon religion? In ...

  • Daniel Scott Tysdal & Priscila Uppal on the Strange Magic of Teaching Creative Writing
    Daniel Scott Tysdal & Priscila Uppal on the Strange Magic of Teaching Creative Writing
    May 15, 2018

    Daniel Scott Tysdal & Priscila Uppal on the Strange Magic of Teaching Creative Writing

    How best to teach creative writing? It's a question that inspires strong opinions amongst writers, students, and instructors. Many writers acknowledge professors and mentors as instrumental in their success ...

  • New Series! The Fruitful City Author Helena Moncrieff Talks about the Art & Science of Teaching Writing
    New Series! The Fruitful City Author Helena Moncrieff Talks about the Art & Science of Teaching Writing
    March 20, 2018

    New Series! The Fruitful City Author Helena Moncrieff Talks about the Art & Science of Teaching Writing

    Helena Moncrieff's The Fruitful City: The Enduring Power of the Urban Food Forest (ECW Press) delves into issues of urban food through the lens of an overlooked city food source: our fruit trees. Once ...

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