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Monthly Archives: June 2005

Making a Daybook into Creative Non-Fiction

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on June 30, 2005 by Sarah DickersonSeptember 26, 2011

In March, 2005, Sarah Dickerson and I were on a panel along with Boise State University’s Karen Uehling and San Francisco writer Steven Winn in which we addressed attendees at the National Council of Teachers of English’s Conference on College Composition and Communication about using journaling in the classroom. I asked Sarah if she would … Continue reading →

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Try Your Hand at Writing a Prose Poem

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on June 23, 2005 by Sheila BenderSeptember 26, 2011

Beggar Woman of Naples by Max Jacob When I lived in Naples there was always a beggar woman at the gate of my palace, to whom I would toss some coins before climbing into my carriage. One day, surprised at never being thanked, I looked at the beggar woman. Now, as I looked at her, … Continue reading →

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Truth & Beauty: Ann Patchett’s memoir about her friendship with Lucy Grealy

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on June 16, 2005 by Sheila BenderSeptember 26, 2011

Lucy Grealy, author of Autobiography of a Face, and five-time novelist Ann Patchett were acquaintances at Sarah Lawrence, where Lucy was legendary as a poet and inspired her classmates with her courage in facing and healing from constant surgeries to restore her face, scared and disfigured from cancer surgery when she was nine. When they … Continue reading →

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Finding a Voice for This

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on June 9, 2005 by Sheila BenderSeptember 26, 2011

We come to journaling to record what we are doing and what we are thinking. As a writing teacher, I spend a lot of time onsite teaching and even more off-site creating lessons. When I was journaling about my son’s death, it is not surprising that I recorded the teaching part of my life as … Continue reading →

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