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Unschool for Writers

About the Substack

Playing and working with words: finding your own way to fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and writing for young people

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  • First of the month newsletter, including prompt; small number of other posts

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  • All posts, full archive, comment access/Q&A, and some workshopping

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About Alison Acheson

I've published picturebooks to memoir for adults, and taught in the MFA program at UBC for 14 years. If that means anything. Canadian.

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