A Pocket Book of Prompts

by Leaf Seligman

Overview

Writer and teacher Leaf Seligman encourages students to use writing as a way to deepen connection, make meaning or clarify it. In this pocket-sized book she asks more than seventy questions intended as invitations to plumb, to look, to listen, and to engage with life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872332003
Publisher:	Bauhan Publishing
Publication date:	07/14/2015
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Leaf Seligman began writing during her Tennessee childhood where she encountered the midway, tent revivals, and the Civil Rights movement. She has taught writing in colleges, jails, prisons, and community settings since 1985 and worked as a minister, a jail chaplain, a youth services caseworker, and a restorative justice practitioner. She is the author of 'Opening the Window: Sabbath Meditations' and 'A Pocket Book of Prompts'. Her current projects include a novel, a memoir, and a series of death row monologues, all attuned to redemption and belonging.

Editorial Reviews

This is a book rich in triggering subjects, doorways that lead to hallways with other doors that you will unlock with words you didn’t expect to write.”—Bruce Ballenger

“These prompts are protein for mind and soul.”—Sheri Reynolds, NYT best-selling author of The Sweet In-Between and the Rapture of Canaan

“Many of us want to take the leap into the world of writing, discovering meaning through words. A Pocket Book of Prompts calls out wonderful invitations, making it easier to take this leap into meaning, connection, and joy.”—Steve Chase, Director of Education, Pendle Hill

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