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Carrier Pigeons
Creative writing doesn’t fit the factory model of education, where information is delivered, tested, and graded. Like learning to dance, play an instrument, throw pottery, or carve wood, writing is an apprenticeship: a craft absorbed through practice, imitation, feedback, and conversation with people who have traveled further down the road. Carrier Pigeons explores why writers…
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The Apprenticeship Model
Creative writing doesn’t fit that paradigm at all. Like any art form or taught skill – learning how to dance, make music, mold clay, knit, crochet, embroider, carve – writing is best done via the apprenticeship model where you acquire skills from others who have more experience than you.
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The Bitter and the Sweet
The first time I saw a cocoa orchard my husband and I were living on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Miles from the city center, the trees clung to the hills, their trunks speckled with tiny pink and white flowers until the red and yellow fruit pods appeared resembling…
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Literary Landscapes: Gwendolyn Brooks
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