Creative Writing and ELT on TTR

 I really enjoyed speaking to Larbi Arbaoui about creative writing and ELT on my Teachers Talk Radio show today. The recording of this can be found here, and it's also on the Teachers Talk Radio Youtube channel.


Among other things, Larbi spoke about the Oliveseed foundation and the short story competition and anthologies of student writing.

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