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A Prison Writing Class using Children’s Books

by Mary E. Cronin | Feb 16, 2016 | Cape Cod, Community connections, Prison writing project, Teaching

Get people talking about the books they remember as children, and all sorts of things happen. The voice softens. There is laughter. The eyes look beyond, beyond the room to another place, another time. That’s what happened in the first session of my creative writing...

Connecting Through Kids’ Books: A Prison Writing Project

by Mary E. Cronin | Jan 21, 2016 | Cape Cod, Community connections, Prison writing project, Teaching, We Need Diverse Books

Like a plane coming in for a landing, I am settling back in to work and writing after the excitement of the holidays and a January trip to Ireland. Thanks to local arts funding, I will be teaching a new version of my creative writing class in the women’s unit of...

What a children’s writer learned from a fierce diva’s cabaret act

by Mary E. Cronin | Aug 21, 2015 | Cape Cod, Community connections, LGBTQ+

Billy Porter was just in Provincetown for a three-night nightclub engagement. You know, the Billy Porter who won a Tony for the role of Lola in Broadway’s hit “Kinky Boots.” He sang with supreme confidence in a skirt, a killer hat and some kick-ass...
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