Instructor
Bridgette Shade
Bridgette Shade has been teaching writing with an emphasis on social justice since 2002. She is the co-founder of West Side Stories, a literary reading series celebrating the words of writers with a western Pennsylvania connection. Her own words have been recognized by the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, the Meyerson Fiction Prize, the Betty Gabehart Prize, The Salamander Fiction Prize, Portable Story Series, and the Dana Awards.
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Thank you, Bridgette, for creating such a safe space for us to write. You were so encouraging to all of us. Sometimes feedback and discouragement can cause a writer to quit, thinking they are not “good” enough. You were so nurturing and gave all of us a reason to keep trying.
Beth Casteel