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OpenCulture - Open Culture lists and links to some of the best online cultural and educational media online. And it's all FREE! Most of the offerings are geared for older students and adults, but there are plenty of links to classic novels, audiobooks, videos on science, culture, geography, music and much more!

TWC Writing Tools (more to come!)

Want to Publish? (Don't we all?)

- a great resource for finding, reviewing and submitting to literary journals

Especially for Young Writers, check out NewPages.com - Young Authors Guide- lists journals and magazines that publish young writers

- Poets & Writers Magazine's indispensible Literary Magazine Database and Literary Agents Database!

Stone Soup - The Magazine by young writers and artists - great to read and a great place to submit your writing! For children through age 13.

- online writing community hosted by HarperCollins Publishers - share your work, get critique and, if your story rises to the top, you may even get a read from a professional editor.

Cool Finds for Good

Read a Book, Give a Book is a fantastic program that enables anyone with access to the Internet to put books in the hands of children who don’t have them, simply by reading online. The program is a joint effort of Penguin Group and Pearson Foundation and hosts a terrific online library. Use it again and again and help spread the magic of reading around.

Links, Resources and other Cool Stuff

We really love these inspiring thoughts about writing and creativity.

Actor/Writer John Cleese, with inimitable humor, discusses the origins of creativity and the ideal environment in which to nurture it.

On Boys Writing, an Interview with Ralph Fletcher

Webinar: Reducing Summer Learning Loss: Implementing Successful Programs from The Wallace Foundation.

10 Truths about Creative Writing from Writers Circle director Judith Lindbergh.

Roald Dahl tells what it's like writing a book.

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.


10 Myths about Learning to Write from the National Council of Teachers of English

Feeling "Blue" About Education Never Seemed So Hopeful from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Blog

Children who use technology are 'better writers' - Hopeful news about the technology driven culture from the British National Literacy Trust - BBC News, December 3, 2009

Writing Circles—A Revolution, Not an Evolution, in Writing Workshop - a podcast with author Smokey Daniels

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