Bob Boone


The Mission: To help creative writing teachers sharpen their skills and expand their horizons.

For the next few months, we'll concentrate on writing plays. How can your students get started? How can they improve their drafts? Where can they submit their final copies? These ideas are not meant to replace the many excellent "How to" books out there, but they will get you started and, I hope, motivated to pursue play writing for your students.

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Last month Young Chicago Authors won a Coming Up Taller Award. The award ceremony took place at the White House. You'll find Bob's account of the ceremony in Favorite Stories. Or, read a pdf summary of other Coming Up Taller Award organizations here.
 
More thoughts about play writing. What has worked for you? What hasn't worked so well?
 
While all teachers are welcome to hang out here, this site should be particularly appealing to that special breed of teacher -- the creative writing teacher. This person might teach a course that is actually called "Creative Writing." Or, this person might teach a regular old English course but load it up with creative writing options. This person might not teach English at all but sponsor the Creative Writing Club. This person might simply get the mail for the "Creative Writing Person." Or this person might be a creative writing wannabe anxious to use the stuff but not sure how to do it.

If you are one of these people, you're going to want to stick around.

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This Month's Challenge

Teachers, write a one-act play that takes place in a taxicab.

Last month's challenge was:
Have you ever written historical fiction? Share something with us.

The Latest from our Teachers

Jay Amberg's new book Whale Song is available here.

The Latest from our Students

Where We Have Been received a production at Pegasus Theatre in Chicago as a part of the Young Playwrights Festival in January 2009 under the mentorship of playwright Mia McCullough. It was directed by Kimberly Baker, with set design by Jack Magaw, lighting design by Denise Karczewski, costume design by Laura Kollar, and sound design by Chris Krtiz. Read it.

Moe's Cafe
Forty-eight decidedly different creative writing prompts for developing writers.

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Hack
The meteoric life of one of baseball's first superstars: Hack Wilson

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Inside Job: A Life of Teaching
An enlightening and entertaining story of Bob Boone's education as a teacher.

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