We’re looking for a few good writers to join our growing Task & Purpose Contributor Network. Since we published a call for pitches in July 2021, our inbox has been flooded with great ideas for stories ...

Writing for meaning and purpose requires more than syntactical and grammatical accuracy; pupils must be aware of their ...

Chantal Aida Gordon never imagined she’d be a plant person. “When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astrophysicist,” says Gordon, 38, co-founder of The Horticult and co-author of “How to Window Box: ...

Improv games and exercises can be incorporated into the writing process to overcome writer's block and boost productivity. Improv's "Yes, and..." rule is a great writing tool; when writers know they ...

In my 36 years of teaching high school English, my students read plenty of books banned or up for discussion of being banned. As the banning continues, I keep thinking of Thomas Gray’s words, “Where ...

This "Back to School" story was told Sept. 9 as part of Tell It Like It Is: Iowa Storytellers Project, a project funded by the Hoyt Sherman Place Foundation in partnership with the Des Moines Register ...

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