Publications

T&W Book Catalog

Welcome to the online catalog of books published by Teachers & Writers Collaborative. With more than forty-five titles, our current list represents a rich diversity of writers, grade-levels, and genres. To search our catalog, please select from one of the following categories or browse our complete book index.

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The Alphabet of the Trees

The Alphabet of the Trees

A Guide to Nature Writing

Edited by Christian McEwen & Mark Statman 320 pp.

Grades: all ages
$19.95 paperback

The Alphabet of the Trees is a superb collection of essays about teaching all aspects and forms of nature writing, including field journals, poems, fiction, and nonfiction. The distinguished contributors to this volume include Gary Snyder, Joseph Bruchac, Mary Oliver, Clare Walker Leslie, Barbara Bash, William J. Higginson, and Jack Collom. Their essays present inspiring models from Tu Fu, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Basho, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Muriel Rukeyser, and many others.

ISBN 0-915924-63-3


Teachers & Writers magazine

Teachers & Writers magazine, the winner of 10 Educational Press Awards for Excellence, offers readers a rich array of educational and writerly insights. Recent issues have featured interviews with poets Billy Collins, Victor Hernandez Cruz, and Kimiko Hahn; articles about teaching writing in nontraditional settings such as a prison and a program for cancer survivors; and teaching writing in combination with architecture, music and opera.
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T&W Book Catalog

T&W Membership

Teachers & Writers Collaborative members receive:

  • a 15% discount on all titles in the T&W Books catalog
  • an annual subscription to Teachers & Writers magazine
  • free gift upon joining and annual renewal

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Bechtel Prize

The Bechtel Prize is awarded annually in recognition of an exemplary article or essay related to:

  • creative writing education
  • literary studies
  • the profession of writing

The winning essay appears in Teachers & Writers magazine, and the author receives a $2,500 honorarium. Entries selected as finalists for the Bechtel Prize may also be published in Teachers & Writers. The authors of essays selected as Bechtel finalists share honoraria totaling $1,000.

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