The Confidence to Write

"The Confidence to Write: A Guide for Overcoming Fear and Developing Identity As a Writer" is designed to help middle and high school English teachers and their students build the social and emotional courage necessary to write. This book has two objectives: 1 to help teachers overcome their own misgivings about a personal writing practice in order 2 to help students face the fear, anxiety, and self-doubt that plagues all writers"--

Liz Prather is a writing teacher at the School for Creative and Performing Arts, a gifted arts program at Lafayette High School in Lexington, Kentucky. A classroom teacher with 21years of experience teaching writing at both the secondary and post-secondary level, Liz is also a professional freelance writer and holds a MFA from the University of Texas-Austin.
Liz is the author of Project-Based Writing: Teaching Writers to Manage Time and Clarify Purpose, and Story Matters: Teaching Teens to Use the Tools of Narrative to Argue and Inform.