Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Literacy

Writing puts us in an active relationship to literacy where the emphasis is on the writer as a builder of meaning. Reading puts us into a passove relationship with literacy where the emphasis is on other people's words and we have to question our interpretation rather than express what's on our own minds.
(Paraphrased email from Peter Elbow to ?)

AWA 5 Essential Affirmations

1. Everyone has a strong, unique voice.
2. Everyone is born with creative genius.
3. Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level.
4. The teaching of craft can be done without damage to a writer's original voice or artistic self-esteem.
5. A writer is someone who writes.

Peter Elbow's FRE WRITING

http://www.thefullwiki.org/Peter_Elbow

Is it time? WRITING CONTESTS

https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/