Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction
http://www.ted.com/talks/elif_shafak_the_politics_of_fiction.html
This 20 minute TEDvideo explores the importance of story telling/fiction. 'Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics.' She is also a story teller herself.
Adolescent Literacy
http://www.adlit.org/
AdLit.org is a national (U.S.A.) multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers.
CMIS Fiction Focus
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/fiction/index.htm
From the Department of Education, Western Australia. CMIS has an ongoing commitment to promote the reading of fiction for enjoyment as well as to develop students' literacy and thinking skills and to foster the growth of their cultural and aesthetic appreciation. It's also worth subscribing to the CMIS blog
Opening lines
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This post links you to ideas for using the opening lines from books. Some really terrific lines which could be used in all sorts of ways: story writing (how to start well); stimulus for creative writing...
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