[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 016 — 020
The Book of Luck, a prayer, and a list EXERCISE 016: OUTLINE A NEW BOOK there’s a reason The Book of Luck (totally made this up) consists of 88 chapters. Compose a Table of Contents so that each chapter has a unique heading. We’ll ...
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Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE 011 – 015
EXERCISE 011: IMITATION IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF … [Write a poem that takes at least three cues (it could be the tone, the number of lines, an image, a sonic element) from Robert Hayden’s “This Winter Sundays,” including this one is mandator...
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Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE 007 – 010
EXERCISE 007 — REMEMBER ACROSTIC [Write a 12-line poem using only the letters in your name.] I took a few liberties with this exercise, so it is not truly an acrostic. Every letter used does come from my name. I have decided I love its impe...
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Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE 004 – 006
Figures, Memories, and Tapestry EXERCISE 004 — EMBODY THE FIGURE [Choose a picture, embody the pose in the picture, and describe the experience of embodying the pose.] On bedrest, roughly a week after foot surgery, teaching myself to p...
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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.
