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We are pleased to share Tom Taylor's essay "The Tree Trimmer" as the 2024 recipient of the Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize.
April 23, 2024 by Tom Taylor
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Stories Out of School is an annual flash-fiction contest created by the Academy for Teachers to honor "the most fascinating, difficult, and important job on the planet."
February 5, 2024
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We are pleased to share Fletcher Huntley's essay "Why Have You Forsaken Me?" as the 2023 recipient of the Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize.
May 1, 2023 by Fletcher Huntley
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Stories Out of School is an annual flash-fiction contest created by the Academy for Teachers to honor "the most fascinating, difficult, and important job on the planet."
February 6, 2023
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We are pleased to share Charlotte Slivka's essay "March 12" as the 2022 recipient of the Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize.
September 6, 2022 by Charlotte Slivka
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Stories Out of School is an annual flash-fiction contest created by the Academy for Teachers to honor "the most fascinating, difficult, and important job on the planet."
January 24, 2022
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“What I didn’t know is that you then go on to become part of a vibrant literary community, which meant I had mentors and new friends I could reach out to; in the many lonely hours of revising a book, this meant the world to me.” —Jai Chakrabarti
September 3, 2021
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We are pleased to share Valeriya Kipnis's "Little Yellow Pills," the 2021 recipient of the Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize.
July 26, 2021 by Valeriya Kipnis
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Get to know the author Paul Lisicky, who will lead us in reading Qiu Miaojin’s Notes of A Crocodile in the July edition of #APStogether.
July 13, 2021
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“I really do believe in the power of a drawing to ignite the imagination.” —Annie Coggan
June 10, 2021
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"Yours, I think, shall forever be, for me, inextricable from a certain song of snow and wander." —Alexander Booth
June 7, 2021
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"Paintings do age, like people, but more slowly. Their meaning ages too." —Anne Elliott
May 20, 2021
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"I don’t get fussy about completism—in fact I think I actively want to miss things..." —Elisa Gabbert
May 7, 2021
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The Academy for Teachers' Stories Out of School 2021 Flash Fiction Contest Winner, selected by Jonathan Lethem.
March 9, 2021
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Cristina Rodriguez is joining A Public Space as Marketing and Sales Director.
February 18, 2021
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We are pleased to share an excerpt from Rocky Halpern's "Candy for Dinner in the Desert," the 2019 recipient of the Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize.
February 18, 2020