Inspire

Exciting Ways of Teaching Creative Writing

Inspire: Exciting Ways of Teaching Creative Writing is an innovative anthology written by a wide spectrum of creative teachers who have a wealth of diverse experience. The focus here is on communicating how to teach creative writing in imaginative, practical and socially just ways. There is a particular emphasis upon helping people of all ages and backgrounds write stories, poems, plays and creative non-fiction, including memoir and autobiography. Here you'll learn many ways of teaching creative writing, including: • How to decolonise creative-writing workshops • How to use social media to engage teen writers • How to use therapeutic writing to cope with lockdown and bereavement • How to help students get creative in their essay writing • How to seek inspiration in nature and landscapes Inspire is essential reading for teachers, writers, academics and anyone who values creativity.

At the bottom of uncanny valley

If you want several minutes of links and other references being read out loud at the end of each, probably stolen, essay, this is the audiobook for you.

Setting aside ethics, the execution of this AI read book is just horrible. Double readings of the same text, weird skipping around, reading layout elements out loud, misunderstood words… I would not be surprised if I was the actual first human to hear this product.

The essays themselves were good, but I’m not sure I’d recommend you subjecting yourself to the bottom of the uncanny valley to get their content.

The robot-read poems are worthy of their own star role in a dystopian novel.