Anya Achtenberg: “The Disobedient Writer”- A Writer Who Dares

https://thedisobedientwriter.com/about/ “If my house were burning down, I would grab artwork, my book, and the notebooks I wrote in Anya’s classes. If you’re looking for an average writing teacher or editor, go elsewhere. Anya resides in the upper stratosphere of creativity and, if you let her, will lift your writing …

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Brenda Bell Brown, filmaker: a writer who dares!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5bvYObqLFwuQVhJSkVSck1nNGs/view?usp=sharing Click on the link above to see a film by Brenda Bell Brown.   I am a writer an editor a social justice advocate, but I don’t have the answers.  But we all have stories.  And Writers Who Dare! are sharing theirs whether through the written word, spoken word, …

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MURDER ON THE RED RIVER by Marcie Rendon

Marcie R. Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Anishinabe Nation. She is a mother, grandmother, writer, and performance artist. A recipient of the Loft’s Inroads Writers of Color Award for Native Americans, she studied under Anishinabe author Jim Northrup. Her first children’s book is Pow Wow Summer …

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Excerpt from How Dare We! Write

“The tinikling offers a visual explanation of how bilingual writing works. Like the agile dancing feet of a tinikling dancer, a bilingual writer’s mind is connected to her feet at all times, transferring and translating the beat of clapping bamboos from a hearing experience to a whole body experience. Living …

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