[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!
Melanie Faith
Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.
Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.
The Society of Professional Journalists
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.
Maxine Greene
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Category: Course Work
Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE 036 — 040
Birds, Consonants, Vowels, Flight, and Kentucky Derby Pie EXERCISE 036: BEGIN WITH THE END Cirrus whispering Anadiplosis is the rhetorical and poetic device in which words at the end of a line are in some way taken up at the beginning of th...
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MONDAYS ARE FREE 031 — 035
Hydrangea, Empty Bowls, A Picture Window, A Brick Factory, A Portrait EXERCISE 031: FIND A WINDOW a bird perched there Choose a window in your home or some place that you return to each day. Could be a window in your office, or your classro...
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MONDAYS ARE FREE 026 — 030
Spill. Forgive. Love. Praise. Rest. EXERCISE 026: DIVINE Spill the tea Make yourself a cup of tea. Tip the cup so the tea spills (wherever: table, sink, floor, sidewalk). Describe what the tea looks like as it’s spilling. Reveal a secret ...
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MONDAYS ARE FREE 021 — 025
LANGUAGE. HISTORY. HUMOR. EXERCISE 021: SPEAK ANOTHER LANGUAGE a poem that embeds Write a poem that embeds a language other than English inside of it. “Bien dans sa peau.” She said. Comfortable in your own skin. “Bien d...
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From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
