This easy-to-use guide explains how to recruit, nourish, and fortify writers of color through innovative reading, writing, workshop, critique, and assessment strategies. Provided by publisher.

Introduction: Decolonizing the creative classroom -- Preparing for change -- Fostering engagement, mindfulness and generosity -- Instituting reading and writing rituals -- Completing the canon -- Owning the language of craft -- Teaching writers to workshop -- Conferencing as critique -- Promoting camaraderie and collective power -- Appendix one: Platforming writers of color : a twenty-first-century reference guide -- Appendix two: Sample lesson plans.