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We have made it simple for you to respond to the writing prompt and to send us prose/poetry for consideration to post on the blog. All you have to do is click Submit on the right hand side of the screen. Let’s get on with the new writing prompt! Spend five to ten minutes writing [...]

We have made it simple for you to respond to the writing prompt and to send us prose/poetry for consideration to post on the blog. All you have to do is click Submit on the right hand side of the screen. Let’s get on with the new writing prompt! Spend five to ten minutes writing [...]

Writing Prompt: Tell us a story about Thanksgiving. the ghost of thanksgivings past by Sarah D. long winding roads through the trees up to the little blue house on the hill, crunching gravel steps up to the porch, always so much warmer once inside. smells of turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes, uncle mark making a [...]

Join Portland public high school students and teachers, WITS writers, the editors of Glimmer Train, Tin House and The Burnside Review, and special guest Jon Raymond to celebrate the new WITS anthology A Whole New Subject. Ecotrust 721 NW 9th Ave Portland, OR 97209 December 2, 2009 7-8 reading music with The Golden Hours starts [...]

We have made it simple for you to respond to the writing prompt and to send us prose/poetry for consideration to post on the blog. All you have to do is click Submit on the right hand side of the screen. Let’s get on with the new writing prompt! Spend five to ten minutes writing [...]

Writing Prompt: Select a quote from a movie. Using that quote as the first line of dialog, craft a conversation between two characters. If you need help thinking of a movie quote, IMDb Quote Section may be helpful. Disappointment by Sarah D. (quote is from Garden State) “Maybe that’s all family really is. A group [...]

We have made it simple for you to respond to the writing prompt and to send us prose/poetry for consideration to post on the blog. All you have to do is click Submit on the right hand side of the screen. Let’s get on with the new writing prompt! Spend five to ten minutes writing [...]

The Writing Prompt: In 200 words, write a description of a place. You can use any and all sensory descriptions but sight: you can describe what it feels like, sounds like, smells like and even tastes like. Try to write the description in such a way that people will not miss the visual details. Waihe’e [...]

The Oregon State Poetry Association announces its annual student contest.  Poems will be accepted November 2, 2009 through February 1, 2010.  Prizes are awarded for the top ten poems in each of four grade level divisions: K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12.  Winners are published in Cascadia, OSPA’s annual anthology; and are then entered in the [...]

On November 2, artists, teaching artists, writers, educators, administrators and elected officials gathered at the World Forestry Center for the 2nd Annual Oregon Arts Education Congress convened by the Oregon Arts Commission.  Mary Rechner, the Writers in the Schools Program Director for Literary Arts, had the good fortune to lead a teambuilding art experience with [...]