Write Back Soon!: Adventures in Letter Writing [Paperback]

Connect to your friends throughhandwrittennotes, cards, letters, and postcards—an interactive workbook that encourages creative interactions between friends through the written word, complete with cross-outs, smudges, and parenthetical asides.

Put down that smartphone and pick up a pen! Texting and e-mail have taken over our correspondence, but Karen Benke is ready to change that. Through prompts that invite penning short postcard-size notes, ideas for sending cards just because, and inspired letter-writing exercises,Pass That Note!offers limitless possibilities for connecting with your friends in more personal, unique, and creative ways. Use the book for its letter-writing ideas, tear out pages to send to friends, or write in it as a journal to record big ideas for future correspondence. No matter how you use it, you'll be connecting with the people you care about the most in ways that are surprising, fun, and heartfelt.

Contributors include:Neil Gaiman, Jon J Muth, Ruth Ozeki, Wendy Mass, Gary Snyder, Norman Fischer, Natalie Goldberg, Jane Hirshfield, Claire Dederer, Albert Flynn DeSilver, Alison Luterman, Sam Hamill, Ava Dellaira, Lucille Lang Day, and J. Ruth Gendler.“If you want to direct a young soul towards the great pleasures of letter writing, thenWrite Back Soon!is the book for you . . . and them.”—Nick Bantock, author of the Griffin and Sabine books

Write Back Soon!inspires us to write from the heart and not just with our fingertips flying across a screen. Bravo, Karen Benke! And thanks for the wonderful examples of letter writers far and wide. —Monica Brown, author ofPablo Neruda: Poet of the PeopleKAREN BENKE is the creator of two popular books on creative writing adventures,Rip the Page!andLeap Write In!(Roost Books)—as well as a poetry collection,Sister(Conflux Press). She handwrites a monthly snail-maillƒ5