Teaching Writing

The Write Time with Write Out Ambassador Rob Walker and Educator Kevin Hodgson

Summary:

As part of the Write Out celebration, The Write Time featured Write Out Ambassador Rob Walker. Write Out is an annual two-week event every October that invites everyone to go outside, connect with nature, and write.

Headshot of Rob and picture of Kevin playing tenor sax on dark gray background with show title and NWP and Write Out logos.

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Rob Walker is a journalist covering design, technology, business, the arts, and other subjects. He writes the BRANDED column for Fast Company and has contributed to The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, NewYorker.Com, Design Observer, The Organist, and many others. He is the author of The Art of Noticing (Knopf), and writes its spinoff newsletter of the same name. Walker is on the faculty of the Products of Design MFA program at the School of Visual Arts; he lives in New Orleans.

Kevin Hodgson teaches sixth grade in Southampton, Massachusetts, and is a teacher-consultant with the Western Massachusetts Writing Project.

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