I'm currently working on two new nonfiction books which I hope to release in late 2020.
One about a lot of my experiences as a Teacher of English as a Foreign language to priamrily adult language learners from countries that have included Brazil, Mexico, China, Japan, Chile, Colombia, Mongolia, Bolivia, and Lebanon and what they taught me or we learned together. It is my loving farewell to that work as I move into a new career. It is also a very critical look at the EFL/ESL industry and its treatment of its teachers and students. My hope is taht this will help to raise awareness of issues in this industry and inspire many to improve it. The other is about how hard it is to get a divorce in Ireland, which will be come complete with general directions for how to do it by one's self or by accessing some low-cost services in the Republic. It will also include example court forms that go into detail in the way that the court forms you have to print yourself off the official government website do not go into. (For the record, this is not to encourage people to get divorces but to help people who already know they need one to access their right to divorce and reduce their stress and emotional duress in doing so in a country that intentionally makes it difficult to even find out how to get a divorce.) I will also add my finished forms, as examples (with all personal information deleted), on this website, to help those in need of them. I will include them at the bottom of my own "nonfiction" page on this website so anyone who may need them can copy and paste them as needed. (Please note that I have no legal training; my forms are based on the ones from the official government website and I was helped to edit them by one solicitor (lawyer) of general law, then they were vetted by a solicitor of family law when I accessed some free legal services (my book will get into all of this).) My hope is for this book to help those going through this very typcially very difficult, challenging, and even very painful transition in life. (Here: avacollopybooks.weebly.com/nonfiction)
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Author BioAva Collopy is a teacher, writer, and world traveler. She has been to 10 countries and counting. She has lived in the U.S. and Ireland. She has published several books, hosted The Book Show podcast on Diversity TV (UK and Ireland, which she has now created Ruminate from (encompassing the book, here, and a planned series of videos, here). And she has nonfiction and fiction published in...
Nonfiction: 2020: Year of Covid-19 (Stories of Lockdown), Inspired Migrant Women in Ireland, Edible Red, Down in the Dirt, and The Relic the Effort the Yelp. Fiction: White Liquor Steemit, Beautiful Losers, White Liquor, Down in the Dirt, Brilliant Flash Fiction (contest shortlist, as A.C.), Sunlight in the Sanctuary, Treading Water, and Adrift. Poetry: Blue Collar Review, Down in the Dirt, CC&D, Poetry Pacific, Re/ Verse, Verse Virtual, Ascent Aspirations, and others. She has teaching materials and pacing guides on: Teacherpayteachers.com and Classful.com. Her books are listed, with cover and description on this website's other pages: Nonfiction Fiction Poetry Besides her one year as an adoptive mother she is a happily lifelong non-mom, a fact she proudly promotes to remind everyone that these are choices each individual must make for themselves. Ava Collopy Books
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