Billie Lee lives with her eccentric, multiracial family, but meeting her white, suburban cousin Celia changes everything, releasing a flood of questions. How can Billie be black but also white? Can she understand the answer?
Billie Lee lives with her eccentric, multiracial family, but meeting her white, suburban cousin Celia changes everything, releasing a flood of questio...
Meredith Sue Willis's Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities.
Willis's stories explore the complex negotiations between longtime natives of the region and its newcomers and the rifts that develop within families over current issues such as mountaintop removal and homophobia. Always, however, the situations depicted in these...
Meredith Sue Willis's Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firm...
Meredith Sue Willis's "Out of the Mountains" is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities. Willis's stories explore the complex negotiations between longtime natives of the region and its newcomers and the rifts that develop within families over current issues such as mountaintop removal and homophobia. Always, however, the situations depicted in these stories are explored in the...
Meredith Sue Willis's "Out of the Mountains" is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, th...
This clear, eminently practical guide offers both general approaches and targeted suggestions for working through the complex tasks of writing a novel. Willis describes multiple entry ways into this formidable genre, offers vivid illustrations from classic and contemporary novels, and provides dozens of creative exercises.
This clear, eminently practical guide offers both general approaches and targeted suggestions for working through the complex tasks of writing a novel...
Re-visions: Stories from Stories is a collection of spin-offs from myth, fiction, and the Bible. From a new look at Adam and Eve and why they left the Garden to a grown-up Topsy from Uncle Tom's Cabin to the confessions of Saint Augustine's concubine- each story offers a gloss on the original as well as insights into how we can live today.
Re-visions: Stories from Stories is a collection of spin-offs from myth, fiction, and the Bible. From a new look at Adam and Eve and why they left the...
BLAZING PENCILS is a practical, enjoyable guide to writing stories and essays. Based on a master teacher's decades of experience working with students of all ages, BLAZING PENCILS will encourage the aspiring young writer at every step of the process of creating fiction and nonfiction. This book offers clearly articulated concepts as well as time-tested suggestions and tips. Writing samples include quotations from the masters of English and American prose but also from dozens of young writers as they learn to master the literary arts.
BLAZING PENCILS is a practical, enjoyable guide to writing stories and essays. Based on a master teacher's decades of experience working with students...
