The past thirty years have witnessed a rapid growth in the number and variety of courses and programs that study life writing from literary, philosophical, psyc

In Writing a Life, Katherine Bomer presents classroom-tested strategies for tapping memoir's power, including ways to help kids generate ideas to write about, e

Arising from a research project conducted over two years, Transformative Learning through Creative Life Writing examines the effects of fictional autobiography

"Writing allows each of us to live with that special wide-awakeness that comes from knowing that our lives and our ideas are worth writing about." -Lucy Calkins

This rich teacher's resource activity book is packed with more than 100 reproducible writing lessons designed to help students improve their language skills by