Natacha Leonard and Mecca Sullivan, both second-year students in Temple’s graduate program in creative writing, knew at a young age that they wanted to become writers. Sullivan decided on that career as early as fifth grade, and Leonard had an elementary school teacher who prodded her to keep writing.
Now, thanks to an initial series of young author workshops at the Tree House Books children’s bookstore in North Philadelphia, Leonard and Sullivan are returning the favor for a group of students from Duckrey Elementary School. [more]
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Precious Young, a student at Duckrey Elementary School, reads while behind her two Temple graduate students in the Creative Writing program, Natacha Leonard (left) and Mecca Sullivan, look on.
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