Chalk and Ink: The Podcast for Teachers Who Write and Writers Who Teach

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It’s the season three finale.  I’ve compiled the top ten writing tips from this season’s guests to help get listeners psyched up for a creative, productive summer. 

Tip Number Ten: It's Gotta Be Fun with Linda Urban, Torrey Maldonado, and Jessica Lander

Tip Number Nine: Set a Schedule with Andy J. Pizza, Sally Engelfried, and Ruth Behar

Tip Number Eight: Get Organized with Tracey Baptiste, Ralph Fletcher, and Erika Thulin Dawes with Mary Ann Cappiello

Tip Number Seven: Get Outside with Susan Edwards Richmond, Nicole D. Collier, and Jessica Lander

Tip Number Six: Read Craft Books with Sally Engelfried and Sandy Stark McGinnis

Tip Number Five: Create Community with Andy J. Pizza, Cindy Rodriguez, and Hanh Bui

Tip Number Four: Get Specific with Tracey Baptiste, Linda Urban, Stacey Shubitz and Melanie Meehan

Tip Number Three: The Beginning Holds the End with Kyle Lukoff

Tip Number Two: Write for the Unseen Reader with Chris Baron, Torrey Maldonado and Hanh Bui

Tip Number One: Writing Starts with You with Chris Baron, Michelle Cusolito, and Emily Francis

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Chris Baron talks about how writing starts with you, reaching unseen readers and the magic of maps.

Sign up here for our next live Chalk + Ink Chat on May 24th with Newbery Honor winner Veera Hiranandani and Pura Belpre Award winner Ruth Behar. It's free and it's fun.

Our summer writing tips episode airs on May 26th. Be sure to listen to glean the best writing tips from Chalk + Ink's third season.

Finally, many thanks to Sarah Brannen for Chalk + Ink’s podcast art. Just like Chris Baron’s novels are great summer reads, Summertime Sleepers, written by Melissa Stewart and illustrated by Sarah, is a great summer read, too. Check it out.

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In this episode, picture book author, Hanh Bui, highlights the helpers who welcomed her and her family to the United States in the 1970s and the helpers who taught her how to write, as well as staying true to her story and surrounding herself with positive people.

Sign up here for our next Chalk + Ink Chat with Newbery Honor winner Veera Hiranandani and Pura Belpre Award winner Ruth Behar on Wednesday, May 24th, from 8-9 PM EST. We'll be talking about historical fiction and epistolary middle grade novels.

For our next episode, please read one of Chris Baron’s amazing middle grade novels All of Me and/or The Magical Imperfect. You’ll be delighted no matter which one you choose.

Many thanks to Sarah Brannen for our Chalk + Ink podcast art.

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Mary Ann Cappiello and Erika Thulin Dawes talk about trusting the process, text sets, and the magic of working on multiple projects at once.

If you would like to attend the next chat with Lisa Stringfellow and Michael Leali on April 26th, please go to www.katenarita.com/podcast and fill out the Chalk + Ink Chat form. It’s free and it’s fun. We’ll talk about being a debut author and diversity, equity and inclusion in middle grade novels.

 Read Hanh Bui’s debut picturebook, The Yellow Ao Dai, to prep for our next episode.

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Nicole D. Collier talks about fear, asks tough questions about whether or not we’re betraying ourselves, and gives listeners tips to create courage.

Sign up for our next Chalk + Ink Chat featuring Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders at 8 PM EST.

For our next episode, please read Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education by Jessica Lander.

Many thanks to Sarah Brannen for Chalk + Ink’s podcast art.

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Kyle Lukoff talks about puzzling out books, gives tips to librarians to protect their patrons’ right to choose their own books and compares picture books to formalist poems.

Remember to sign up for our next Chalk + Ink Chat on March 29th, 2023 with Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders to talk about biographies, collaboration, book bans and more. Go to www.katenarita.com/podcast and fill out the Chalk + Ink Chat form.

For you, please read Nicole D. Collier’s Just Right Jillian and/or The Many Fortunes of Maya. 

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On today's episode, Ralph Fletcher talks about how writing is a process of self-discovery, how the writer’s notebook is a place to honor students’ voices, and creating idea treasure maps.

For homework, be sure to read Kyle Lukoff's Newbery Honor book, Too Bright to See.

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This week Melanie Meehan and Stacey Shubitz from the Two Writing Teachers Podcast talk about how writing helps us live wide-awake lives, discuss why the best teachers of writing, write, and how as authors it’s our responsibility to ask for what we need from a critique.

Join us for a Chalk + Ink Chat on the last Wednesday of every month, from September through May, from 8-9 PM EST. Our February 2023 featured guest is none other than the fabulous Melissa Stewart.

Special thanks to Sarah Brannen for Chalk + Ink’s podcast art.

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On today’s episode, Emily Francis talks about transparency and honoring our students’ stories as well as their wishes.

Stay tuned to the end of the episode to find out how to win a signed copy of Emily's incredible epistolary autobiography,  If You Only Knew: Letters From an Immigrant Teacher.

I’m hoping you’ll help me spread Chalk + Ink cheer throughout the new year. Boost the podcast on your favorite social media platform, tell a friend, family member, or write a review on your favorite podcast platform, or go to buymeacoffee/chalkandink and support the show with a simple click.

Finally, I want to give a shout out to Sarah Brannen for Chalk + Ink’s podcast art and call attention to the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal. Last year at ALA, Summertime Sleepers, written by Melissa Stewart and illustrated by Sarah Brannen, won the Sibert Honor. The ALA awards are only ten days away and I can’t wait to see which book wins the Sibert Medal this year.

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