Shaula Evans

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About Shaula Evans

I'm a writer, curator, and community builder. I'm also a passionate advocate of increasing diversity in stories and supporting under-represented writers. I have more than a decade of experience in offering online workshops to support writers in developing their voices and telling their own stories. To find out more about me, read my full bio.

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Sometimes The World Surprises You In A Good Way

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games on June 27, 2015 by Shaula Evans

On June 26, 2015, gay couples and lesbian couples at long last won the legal right to marry in the United States. (You can read […]

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Weekly Check In: 2015 Week 25 7 comments

This entry was posted in Weekly Check In on June 23, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on June 28, 2015)

1. Let us know how you fared with last week’s writing goals (whether you shared them with us here or not). 2. Share your goals […]

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Start With The Landscape

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games and tagged brainstorming landscape location setting on June 19, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on June 6, 2015)

Let’s look at how a landscape can provide a starting point for a story or poem. Think about a landscape you know well. Note that I said “landscape”, […]

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Juan Felipe Herrera on writing interlingual stories

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games and tagged translation on June 10, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on June 10, 2015)

Juan Felipe Herrera, who was just named the first Mexican-American U.S. poet laureate, shares his technique for writing interlingual stories: Your picture books are bilingual in […]

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Weekly Check In: 2015 Week 23 9 comments

This entry was posted in Weekly Check In on June 9, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on June 23, 2015)

1. Let us know how you fared with last week’s writing goals (whether you shared them with us here or not). 2. Share your goals […]

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Don’t do writer favors that tick you off 10 comments

This entry was posted in Writing on June 4, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on June 4, 2015)

Excellent advice on doing favors for fellow writers from Robin Black: There are only so many manuscripts you can read for free before you begin to resent […]

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Weekly Check In: 2015 Week 22 7 comments

This entry was posted in Weekly Check In on June 1, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on June 9, 2015)

1. Let us know how you fared with last week’s writing goals (whether you shared them with us here or not). 2. Share your goals […]

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Start With A Place Name

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games on May 29, 2015 by Shaula Evans

  The Okanagan Valley where I grew up is blessed with an array of colorful place names, including names derived from the Salish language of the original […]

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Writing is Writing is Writing 3 comments

This entry was posted in Writing on May 28, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on June 12, 2015)

I’m going to let you in on a little secret: you write much more than you realize. Most of us write a ton of email […]

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