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2010 Lewis And Clark National Historical Park : Youth Nature Writing Contest “Water For Life” 9th-12th graders 500 word essay about water. Write about the thing that we know best about in Portland : Water, Water Everywhere! Write about an adventure, a moment of reflection, an injustice, a happy experience, a tragedy, or anything you [...]

New York to Portland by: Sarah Daus Moving from New York City to Portland on a whim was pretty exciting but also scary. I didn’t really have a plan. I had been interning at The Overlook Press in Manhattan, and one of their editors, Aaron Schlechtor, gave me the names of people I should try [...]

In an effort to provide students more publishing opportunities, WITS is launching a series of digital chapbooks.  (To read the chapbooks, click on the links at right.) Against the Indigo Sky, Swing Set, and Rumble into Eternity are designed to showcase the creative work students produced during the sixty writing workshops WITS writers taught in [...]