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Youth Programs Team at AWP

Literary Arts’ entire Youth Programs team is heading up to Seattle from March 8 to March 12 to take part in the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference. A few team members will be panelists, and the rest of the time will be spent learning from and connecting with writers, teaching artists, and arts administrators from programs across the country.

Youth Programs staff are appearing at the following panels and events (all descriptions provided by AWP):

Writers in the Schools Alliance Annual Meeting
Join other teaching writers and writer-in-the-school programs to discuss the rewards and challenges of the field at this moment. Goals for this meeting are to forge stronger connections within the network of WITSA organizations and practitioners and to set the coalition’s agenda for the year ahead. Time permitting, WITS community members will be invited to share their students’ writing.

Don’t Worry, Be Scrappy: Navigating Instability in Community Writing Programs
Community-based writing organizations, especially those that engage marginalized writers, can provide essential consistency in lives shaken by change. How, as leaders of these organizations, do we weather our own maelstroms of insufficient funding and staff turnover without sacrificing program quality? Join a group of educators, advocates, and nonprofit administrators as we discuss the factors that can disturb consistency in a community writing program and how to combat or avoid such challenges.

Points of Entry: Teaching Writing in Schools and Communities, Sponsored by WITS Alliance
Leading school and/or community writing workshops can be deeply rewarding and inspiring work, and many writers make a living teaching in schools or in community settings, such as libraries, senior centers, and in the criminal justice system. But how do you get started? This discussion will explore ways a writer can break into the field of arts education, including training programs, writer-in-the-schools programs, and even striking out on your own!

Those who can…TEACH, Sponsored by WITS Alliance
The panelists assembled have all been in the role of teaching artists while simultaneously building their body of work as professional writers and poets. They will share their experience of how working with students as a teaching artist evolved their own relationship to writing. We will hear excerpts from our panelists’ work as well as student pieces as we explore the relationship between the writer and the student.

Literary Arts will also have a booth at the conference book fair. If you will be in Seattle, stop by and say hello! We’d love to see you.

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