A Great Way to Teach, a Great Way to Learn

I ended my blog last week with a dubious yes, having agreed to teach in a brand new, first-of-its-kind MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. The program was at Vermont College in Montpelier, Vermont. It was to be a low-residency program, meaning that faculty and students would spend ten or eleven days on campus twice a year attending workshops, lectures, readings and that the rest of the work–the actual writing and then the critique of the writing–would be done by corresponden...