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Students from Benson High School who have participated in a semester-long creative writing residency with WITS writer Carson Cistulli are reading their poems and stories on April 1 at 7:00 p.m., Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR.

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 [...]

On Tuesday, February 2, WITS writers Mark Pomeroy and John Isaacson were joined by Cleveland High School teachers Vanessa Hughes, Eric Levine, and Stephanie Goldbloom and Cleveland High School students to share poems, prose and comics generated during the WITS fall residencies.  Tabor Space hosted the reading.

WITS writers JoNelle Toriseva and Turiya Autry will join Madison High School students at the BiPartisan Cafe on Thursday, February 4 at 7:00 PM for a reading of poetry and prose produced during the fall WITS residencies.  The reading is free and open to the public!

Students from Grant High School who have participated in WITS residencies are reading tonight at Broadway Books. They will be joined by their writers in residence, Karen Karbo and Ryan Blacketter.

Join WITS writers along with PPS students and teachers reading from the new WITS anthology A Whole New Subject. January 28, 2010 7:30 PM Powell’s City of Books, Pearl Room.

Three WITS writers, Hunt Holman, Lorraine Bahr, and Matt Zrebski currently have work featured in Portland, Oregon’s Fertile Ground Festival of new work.

WITS Writers Matt Zrebski and Amy Minato read at Annie Bloom’s Books on January 7, 2010 along with students from Wilson High School who participated in semester long writing workshops.  Aaron Goodstein, featured above, read two versions of his morning routine: one filled with good food and warm water, the other with stale bagels and [...]