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Teachers & Writers books

NAWE is pleased to be making a selection of the Teachers & Writers booklist available in the UK. The Teachers & Writers Collaborative is based in New York and has an impressive publications programme, publishing educational books that emerge from creative writers working side by side with teachers in the classroom. All titles listed are available at a £1 discount for NAWE members and can be purchased online.


If you or your students dread the process of revision, this book will prove transformative. Meredith Sue Willis offers a wide array of specific revision exercises for fiction and nonfiction.  Read more...


The 72 informal essays in Educating the Imagination were selected from the very best articles in Teachers & Writers Magazine over the past 17 years. 2 volume set Read more...


In Like It Was, Cynthia Stokes Brown (a recipient of the American Book Award) offers clear, helpful advice on every step of the oral history process: using the tape recorder; conducting and transcribing the interview; editing the manuscript; writing from multiple narratives; and presenting the results. Read more...


The Art of Science Writing features innovative advice about science writing, as well as inspiring examples from Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Jane Goodall, Stephen Jay Gould, and others. Read more...

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The list poem is one of the simplest ways for beginners to approach the writing of free verse poetry. Larry Fagin's seminal guide defines list poetry, traces its lineage from ancient times, offers writing ideas and teaching advice for list poems, and presents more than 200 examples by adults and children. Read more...

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he Nearness of You is a guide to adapting the Internet to the writing classroom. Twenty-four educators discuss dynamic and inventive applications of interactive technologies and online publishing. Read more...

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Teachers & Writers Collaborative (T&W) seeks to educate the imagination by offering innovative creative writing programs for students and teachers, and by providing a variety of publications and resources to support learning through the literary arts.

T&W also publishes Teachers & Writers, an award-winning quarterly magazine on teaching writing; and sponsors the annual Bechtel Prize to honor an exemplary article about writing or teaching. http://www.twc.org