Unschool for Writers
by Alison Achesonin 📚 Literature
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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 post as well as a small number of others
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- All posts, full archive, comment access/Q&A, and some workshopping
Paid Subscription Plans
- CA$60 a year
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About Alison Acheson
I've published picturebooks to memoir for adults, with a new novel, BLUE HOURS, being released this spring. Taught in the MFA program at UBC for 14 years--if that means anything. Canadian with a border.
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