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Teaching Authors

http://www.teachingauthors.com/

This is a group blog by six children’s authors with a wide range (and many years) of experience teaching writing to children, teens, and adults. The blog is intended as a resource for both writers and teachers, and regularly features writing exercises, teaching tips, and book reviews.

Added on: Jul 21st, 2009
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Carmela Martino
Listed in: Primary Writing
Tags: writing publishing children's literature children's authors teaching writing teen literature

Recent Posts

B is for Book Tour

Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 09:39 in out and about, esther hershenhorn, s is for story: a writer's alphabet

Since early September I’ve been out-and-about, to Chicago and its Parks – Lincoln, Hyde and Rogers, plus Vernon Hills, Orland Park, Winnetka, Aurora, Palatine, Springfield, Ann Arbor, Reno, Virginia City and the Kidlitosphere, visiting c...
Mangia! (Or Mang, as my grandmother would say)

Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 07:59 in recipes, beverly cleary, paula yoo, jeanne marie grunwell ford, food into fiction, person composition pro

In my addled state at the time of my last post, I completely lost track of our topic du week -- my favorite subject. Food! Since having children and losing my limited ability to concenterate for anything greater than a two-minute interval, my ...
It\'s Grazie-to-Marti Day!

Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 07:00 in six-word memoir, carmela martino

We Five Teaching Authors hereby decree: this Fourth Thursday in November is Grazie-to-Marti Day! Grazie, Carmela-dash-Marti Martino, our TeachingAuthors Administrator Extraordinaire! Our holiday cornucopia runneth over with thanks, for all you do,...
Food in Fiction: Quirks and Customs

Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 07:49 in fantasy, historical fiction, thanksgiving day, contemporary fiction, multicultural fiction, writing workout, carmela martino, rosa sola, food into fiction

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day here in the United States. For most of us, that means celebrating with a big turkey dinner. However, in my Italian-immigrant family, every holiday calls for a multi-course dinner that typically consists of antipasto, soup...
Food and Fiction

Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 11:29 in World War II, recipes, the depression, rationing, mary ann rodman, the food of a younger land, writing workout, jimmy's stars, food into fiction, surprise soup, mawblog

I hate to cook. Period. I have mageirocophobia,the cook's equivalent of stage fright. Just knowing that someone else is going to consume and judge what I am cooking turns me into a quivering pile of Knox gelatin. Then why do...
Food and its Functions in Fantasy

Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 07:56 in fantasy, writing workout, joann early macken, food into fiction

I once heard a tip about using food to ground fantasy in reality. I searched my notes from Vermont College and found this from a January 1999 workshop led by Marion Dane Bauer and Norma Fox Mazer: "Ground in reality before you can take off into fanta...