In preparing to offer writing workshops to incarcerated teens, I was inspired by the play Key Change, about women in prison in the UK.
My thoughts on self-publishing some of my blog pieces and other essays on writing, travel, culture, politics, and growing up on the outside looking in.
Michigan governor Rick Snyder won't go to jail for the poisoned water, but thousands of children in Flint might. And this is why we need Black Lives Matter.
If you knew that the best grade you could get in a course you really wanted to take was a C, would you still take the course?
Last week I reported on the first week that I led a workshop for middle school writers at New Voices School as part of the VCFA Young Writers Network. That…
The first part of my report on presenting at New Voices School in Brooklyn as part of the new VCFA Young Writers Network.
My official post as a member of Team Red for the Fall 2015 Young Adult Scavenger Hunt.
A promise to attend a friend's bookstore panel introduces me to three Jane Austen-inspired novels and the importance of having an open mind.
A well-timed writing date gets me back on track after a two-month hiatus to promote Surviving Santiago.
Reflections on the publication of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman and the controversy surrounding this early draft of a classic novel.