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At the WITS Anthology Release Party & Fundraiser, we had hundreds of small cupcakes with circular flags stuck into their frosting. Each flag was printed on one side with “Thanks to your donation…” and the other side had a short, specific example of what a donation to the WITS program can facilitate. For those who [...]

As the internet explodes with forums, e-journals and writing blogs, it seems like a pretty exciting time to be young writer. Dana Goodyear, who writes for the New Yorker, realized this a couple of years ago, when she read her first keitai shosetsu, or Japanese cell-phone novel (copy-paste to read Dana’s article about it here: [...]

Ink-Filled Page is a local quarterly literary journal that publishes a youth edition once a year. The youth issue’s deadline is February 28th, 2011. The folks at Ink-Filled Page want to up the number of submissions from local teen writers, as they receive many submissions from arts schools across the country, so don’t be shy [...]

“I feel like I’m at a take-back-the-culture night,” said Peyton Chapman, principal of Lincoln High School. She was addressing a diverse audience, including high school students, their parents and teachers, WITS writers, volunteer mentors from the WITS essay event, community leaders, and board members of Literary Arts. Everyone wore name tags, several of which had [...]

Kathy Anderson’s Wilson High School students are lucky. Not only do they get to take a literature class called “The 60′s,” but they read WITS writer Joanna Rose’s book Little Miss Strange, followed by a visit from the writer herself.  Joanna began her talk this morning by noting that she didn’t write Little Miss Strange [...]

The Nature of Words is accepting entries in fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, and nature writing for the 2011 Rising Star Creative Writing Competition! This event is a great opportunity for emerging authors. It is open to writers in three age categories (15-18, 19-24, and 25+) who have not previously published a book or chapbook. All [...]