Category Archives: wits alliance
Summer Institute for Advanced Teaching Artists
Save the dates: July 19, 22 + 23, 2013! Apply by June 5, 2013 Summer Institute is a three-day intensive workshop conducted by Community-Word Project for creative writers, visual artists, musicians, dancers … Continue reading
WritersCorps Live in the City by the Bay
On March 7, 2013, WritersCorps and the Contemporary Jewish Museum joined forces for the third year to present WritersCorps Live at the CJM, featuring award-winning author Tamim Ansary, along with WritersCorps … Continue reading
So, You Want to Become a Writer in the Schools?
Join us at the 2013 AWP Conference in Boston, March 6-9. Here is a list of the Writers in the Schools (WITS) Alliance events this year. WITS Alliance Schedule of … Continue reading
Teachers and Writers Launches the Digital Resource Center
The WITS Alliance welcomes the very much needed Digital Resource Center to the Internet. It is an online repository of lesson plans designed by writers for teachers and writers. Access … Continue reading
Congratulations, Portland WITS!
Congratulations to Literary Arts, the home of Portland Writers in the Schools (WITS), for winning the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Creative Leadership Award. Only four nonprofits in the Northwest received … Continue reading
WritersCorps Rocks Litquake
WritersCorps, a WITS Alliance organization in San Francisco, was thrilled to be a part of Litquake again this year, the annual literary festival that brings hundreds of writers and thousands of literature lovers … Continue reading
Little Kids Write about the Big Apple
The book is out! A POEM AS BIG AS NEW YORK CITY, a collaborative work by the talented students of Teachers & Writers Collaborative, hit the stores this month. With … Continue reading
Symposium for Writers in September
California Poets in the Schools will host its 48th annual Writing and Teaching Symposium on September 14th – 15th in Petaluma. Camille Dungy will be the featured presenter. The weekend … Continue reading
InsideOut’s Terry Blackhawk in D.C.
Terry Blackhawk of InsideOut Literary Arts Project in Detroit was recently in Washington D.C. to speak about InsideOut’s experience as a 2009 winner of the National Arts and Humanities Youth … Continue reading
What? Free Writing Workshops in NYC?
Yes! Teachers & Writers is pleased to offer FREE poetry workshops for children and teens this summer! With generous support from The Lily Auchincloss Foundation and The Lotos Club Foundation, T&W is partnering … Continue reading
Creative Writing Camp Connects to Houston Arts and Culture
Reblogged from The WITS Blog: In an ongoing effort to enrich creative writing through an integration of literacy and art, students at our Creative Writing Camp took field trips to … Continue reading
Jubilee Rocks LA this Weekend
If you’re in Los Angeles this Memorial Day weekend, check out PEN in the Classroom and other great authors at the literary event of the season. Celebrate the literary with PEN Center … Continue reading
