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		<title>Nature Writing Contest: It&#8217;s All About Water!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 want to write [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witspdx.com/2010/03/05/nature-writing-contest-its-all-about-water/</link>
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		<title>Saying Goodbye to Sarah Daus, WITS Intern</title>
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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 to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witspdx.com/2010/03/05/saying-goodbye-to-sarah-daus-wits-intern/</link>
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		<title>WITS Launches Digital Chapbooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 Portland [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witspdx.com/2010/03/03/wits-launches-digital-chapbooks/</link>
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		<title>Cleveland High School WITS Reading at Tabor Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
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		<link>http://witspdx.com/2010/02/18/cleveland-high-school-wits-reading-at-tabor-space/</link>
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		<title>Madison High School WITS Reading 2/4/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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!
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		<link>http://witspdx.com/2010/02/03/madison-high-school-wits-reading-2410/</link>
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		<title>WITS Reading Tonight at Broadway Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
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		<link>http://witspdx.com/2010/02/02/wits-reading-tonight-at-broadway-books/</link>
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		<title>WITS anthology reading at Powell&#039;s City of Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s City of Books, Pearl Room.
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		<link>http://witspdx.com/2010/01/26/wits-anthology-reading-at-powells-city-of-books/</link>
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		<title>WITS Writers Featured in the Fertile Ground Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three WITS writers, Hunt Holman, Lorraine Bahr, and Matt Zrebski currently have work featured in Portland, Oregon&#8217;s Fertile Ground Festival of new work.

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		<link>http://witspdx.com/2010/01/26/wits-writers-featured-in-the-fertile-ground-festival/</link>
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		<title>WITS Readings</title>
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WITS Writers Matt Zrebski and Amy Minato read at Annie Bloom&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witspdx.com/2010/01/12/wits-readings/</link>
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		<title>Writing Prompt: Odd Gifts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have made it simple for you to respond to the writing prompt and to send us prose/poetry for consideration to post on the blog. All you have to do is click Submit on the right hand side of the screen.  Let’s get on with the new writing prompt!
Spend five to ten minutes writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witspdx.com/2009/12/14/writing-prompt-odd-gifts/</link>
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