Blog — Amber Wheeler Bacon

Amber Wheeler Bacon, pictured, with Interview Quote: “In my class, students will be able to articulate the narrative stakes in their stories and see which scenes can be revised to be more cohesively married to the big questions of their novel.”

Amber Wheeler Bacon on the Questions That Keep Readers Hunting

Every novel makes promises. It sets questions loose in its opening pages, and readers chase them the way a hunting...

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Amber Wheeler Bacon, pictured, with Interview Quote: “In my class, students will be able to articulate the narrative stakes in their stories and see which scenes can be revised to be more cohesively married to the big questions of their novel.”

Amber Wheeler Bacon on the Questions That Keep Readers Hunting

3 hours ago

A picture of Samantha Mann for her blog post on Turning Your big idea into an essay collection

Samantha Mann on Turning Your Big Idea into an Essay Collection

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Meet the Teaching Artist: Maureen Aitken on How Place Propels Plot in Flash Fiction

Meet the Teaching Artist: Maureen Aitken on How Place Propels Plot in Flash Fiction

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Meet the Teaching Artist: Nadia Bongo on Finding the Poem Inside the Collage

Meet the Teaching Artist: Nadia Bongo on Finding the Poem Inside the Collage

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Student Publication News:

Michaell Crews-Yancey's Tiny Love Story Appears in The New York Times

Michaell Crews-Yancey's Tiny Love Story Appears in The New York Times

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JJ Kambal’s Mission Impossible Recipe Satire Lands at Points in Case

JJ Kambal’s Mission Impossible Recipe Satire Lands at Points in Case

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A Most Anticipated debut of 2026 from Debutiful

A Most Anticipated debut of 2026 from Debutiful

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Rachel Spies Finds Her Book's Shape in a Grief Writing Workshop

Rachel Spies Finds Her Book's Shape in a Grief Writing Workshop

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