Hank Kellner's Write What You See Photo Prompts

A veteran of the Korean War, Hank Kellner is a retired educator who has served as an English Department chairperson at the high school level and an adjunct Associate Professor of English at the community college level.

For several years he published Kellner's Moneygram, a newsletter for photographers. He also owned and operated Simmer Pot Press, a small press specializing in cookbooks, for several years.

Kellner is the creator of many photographs and articles that appeared in publications nationwide; the author of extensive reading comprehension materials for a publisher of educational materials, and a former contributing editor to Darkroom Photography magazine. His current publication is Write What You See: 99 Photos To Inspire Writing (Cottonwood Press, due out January, 2009)

Born in New York City, Kellner now lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Visit his blog at hank-englisheducation.blogspot.com.

Using Photography to Inspire Writing Series

Part 10: Shifting Perspectives
By Hank Kellner
Stimulating student's minds with questions, group work, and images that create powerful responses in creative writing.

Part 9: Use Photos as Writing Prompts with Students
By Hank Kellner
The Amazing Adventures of Avenger Woman, Photo + Poem = Inspiration, Sharing Photos and Writing.

Part 8: Photos Trigger Words
By Hank Kellner
One way to use a photo to inspire writing is to present it to students with only a few accompanying “trigger” words designed to stimulate their imaginations.

Part 7: How to Connect Seeing with Writing
By Hank Kellner
Converting positive images into negative ones on your computer, discovering convergences between visual images and verbal texts, and using dreams and poetry to inspire writing.

Part 6: Photo Essays Tell Stories
By Hank Kellner
Simple poems, fragmented pictures, and photo essays can easily inspire students to write many different kinds of compositions.

Part 5: Combining Photos with Poems
By Hank Kellner
Combining photos with poems, using comics and cartoons, and going beyond mere appearances.

Part 4: Contrast in Writing, Subjects
By Hank Kellner
Exercise the mental process of contrast in visual as well as mental and emotional writing subjects.

Part 3: Every Photograph Tells a Story
By Hank Kellner
How some master teachers use photographs as writing prompts.

Part 2: Less is More
By Hank Kellner
When you use photos to encourage writing in the classroom, never again will students complain that they have nothing to write about.

Part 1: Using Photography to Inspire Writing
By Hank Kellner
If “One picture is worth a thousand words,” can one picture also inspire a thousand words?