Archive for October, 2011

The City is a Classroom

For Stephen and Bianca, teachers at at Metropolitan Learning Center, the city is a classroom. They regularly take their students off-campus to see performances of all kinds, including the Arts & Lectures Series. When asked which part of the Students to the Schnitz program is more important, the free books or the free tickets to [...]

Members of the Literary Arts Community Gather at Blue Hour to Support WITS

On Tuesday November 18th Literary Arts held its annual WITS fundraiser luncheon, hosted by Blue Hour. Members of the Literary Arts staff and Board of Directors gathered with almost 200 friends, writers, teachers and other members of the community to support WITS. We are thrilled to share that the event was a huge success, raising [...]

The Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop: A Great Opportunity for Student Writers

Are you a motivated high school student who values writing? If you are, you might be interested in applying to the Young Writers Workshop sponsored by the Kenyon Review and hosted at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. The workshop is an intensive two-week summer program for intellectually curious students, and works with young writers to [...]

The 2012 Nature Of Words Rising Star Competition Opens in November!

In November, The Nature of Words, a literature based non-profit serving the High Desert region of the Northwest, will begin accepting entries in poetry, fiction, literary non-fiction and nature writing for the 2012 Rising Star Creative Writing Competition. The Nature of Words aims to foster appreciation of the literary arts through a variety of programs [...]