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  Table of Contents Falling for the Story Front Matter Section I: Elementary Fiction Poetry Non-Fiction Section II: Secondary Fiction Poetry Non-Fiction Contributors’ Notes and Teachers       An Introduction to Volume IX of Falling for the Story  By Dr. Paul Rogers, NVWP Director “Words, in my humble opinion, are the most inexhaustible form [...]

On October 21st, Mark Farrington, NVWP TC and Assistant Director of the Johns Hopkins M.A. in Writing Program, gave a reading of his story “Motherlove”, which was recently published in the Fall 2011 Issue of Carve Magazine.  You can view videos of Mark’s reading in three parts below; you can read the story online @ http://www.carvezine.com/issue/2011/fall/farrington.htm [...]

A $700,000 donation from J.J. and Kaye Smith will be used to partially fund an endowed chair in honor of James Porterfield, who served as an Winchester English teacher for 30 years.  NVWP Co-Director Mary Tedrow was recognized on November 8th as the first person to fill this chair.  For more visit: http://bit.ly/shS3Hv Mary currently teaches Advanced Placement Literature and [...]

By Lindsey Brauzer, NVWP TC 2010 When Paul informed me that I would be attending the Writing and Contemplative Mind Conference at GMU October 21st and 22nd, I literally laughed out loud. There is NOTHING contemplative about my mind. I tried yoga once. The instructor “tsk tsked” me throughout the class and adjusted my body [...]

Aha! Now I get it!—that moment when the light bulb goes on and a profound understanding strikes you hard!  I am sure you have had many of those as teachers. Can you remember your first?  The one where an interaction with a student led to you understand how and why an  instructional techniques really worked [...]