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Congrats to all the students who read their work at BiPartisan cafe last Thursday night! The space was packed to standing-room-only with friends, parents, siblings, teachers, WITS writers, and the students courageous enough to share their writing. We’re looking forward to receiving submissions for the WITS anthology!

Despite being interrupted by a fire alarm and having to evacuate the museum into the park blocks, Lincoln students and their fans (including parents, siblings, teachers, and friends) had a great end-of-residency reading. At the end, the Lincoln teachers presented WITS writer Laura Moulton with a book of found poems they had made with their [...]

On a sunny Monday evening, students read their work at Girasole Pizza in St. Johns for an audience of parents, teachers, WITS writers, and other fans.

Parents, friends, teachers and writers packed into Annie Bloom’s Books to see Wilson students read  poetry, prose, and drama written during the previous semester with a WITS writer-in-residence. The classes hosting a writer included Creative Writing, 3D Design, and US History. WITS writer Cindy Williams Gutierrez spoke of creating art from books and writing poems [...]

It was certainly a 21st-century reading at Broadway books on Wednesday night, with students reading their comics projected onto a screen and playing radio pieces they had pre-recorded for broadcast. The pieces were produced in two residencies at Benson High School this past semester: graphic novelist Nicole Georges taught in Dave Mylet’s classroom, and journalist [...]

In our final WITS reading for Spring 2011, Franklin and Portland Night High School students read to a (packed!) audience at BiPartisan Cafe. It was one of our largest readings yet, and it was wonderful to see so many friends and parents attending. Each student, teacher, and writer did a fantastic job, and we’re already [...]

With Marshall campus closing, this was the last Renaissance Arts and Linus Pauling reading. Instead of melancholia, however, there was a strong sense of community and support amidst the students, families, teachers, administrators, and WITS writers. Several of the works celebrated the author’s determination and desire to find a place in the world. Lents Commons [...]

First, thanks to Girasole Pizza for hosting an awesome reading last night! The sunny room was packed with students, teachers, WITS writers, parents, and Literary Arts board who enjoyed wood-fired pizzas and both listened and watched students read their work. We had a projector for those who’d drawn comics, and the applause for everyone was [...]

Last night’s reading at the Portland Art Museum was an awesome example of multimedia storytelling and collaboration. Lincoln students who worked with WITS writers this past semester spent time at the Portland Art Museum and the Independent Publishing Resource Center to create work that is both inspired by and expressed through visual art. In addition [...]

Another round of WITS Readings is approaching! Here’s the schedule: Lincoln High School Date: Thursday, May 12 Location: Portland Art Museum (1219 SW Park) Time: 6:30 pm Featured WITS writers: John Isaacson and Laura Moulton Roosevelt High School Date: Monday, May 16 Location: Girasole Pizza (8438 N. Lombard) Time: 7:00 pm Featured WITS writers: Carmen [...]