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These students are awesome. I had to share this for laughs. Happy Friday!

After an exciting week of rehearsals, The MothShop took the stage Friday morning at Marshall High School’s Renaissance Arts Academy. For those who don’t know, The Moth has a few rules. The story must be true. You can’t memorize it or use notes or props. It’s just the teller, the mic, and the truth. So [...]

The Moth is in Portland! We’re excited to be hosting them all week long. In addition to their sold-out event at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Thursday, The Moth is also conducting a week-long workshop at Marshall High School. Here are The Moth producers Maggie Cinio and Sarah Austin Jenness with Marshall Principal Fred [...]

Thanks to Annie Bloom’s Books for hosting our Wilson High School student reading! This event was the final reading for this semester, but no one was in a hurry for things to end. After the main program was done, some readers gave repeat performances and one student read even though her name wasn’t on the [...]

Thanks to Broadway Books for hosting our reading by Benson High School students! It was especially helpful that they let us set up a projector for the event. The WITS writer-in-residence at Benson was Nicole Georges, who is a graphic artist, and the students created their own comics. For this reading, we projected the images [...]

WITS student often write beautifully about their adventures, explorations, and meditations in Oregon’s breathtaking forests. If you have a forest story, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park in Astoria wants to hear it, in the most descriptive language possible. Because of this, their 2011 Youth Nature Writing Contest, open to Oregon and Washington high school [...]

Thanks to TaborSpace for hosting our reading by Cleveland High School students!

Thanks to Broadway Books for hosting our reading by Grant High School students! The turnout was awesome, with the chairs filled and people standing in the aisles. (I couldn’t fit everyone into one photograph!)

Thanks to BiPartisan Cafe for hosting the Madison and FOCUS student reading! It was a great night featuring live music, two-person dramatic readings, and lots of applause!