Events, Classes, and Seminars

Writers in the Schools (WITS) end-of-residency reading featuring students who worked with WITS writers Jules Ohman and Claudia Savage. 

Writers in the Schools (WITS) end-of-residency reading featuring Lincoln High School students who worked with WITS writers Bettina de Leon Barrera, Lisa Eisenberg, and Mark Pomeroy. 

Writers in the Schools (WITS) end-of-residency reading featuring Roosevelt students who worked with WITS writers Arthur Bradford, Jeffy Denight, and James Gendron. 

Writers in the Schools (WITS) end-of-residency reading featuring Franklin students who worked with WITS writers Alex Behr, David Ciminello, and Cari Luna.

Writers in the Schools (WITS) end-of-residency reading featuring students who worked with WITS writers Brian Kettler, Monty Mickelson, and Emilly Prado.

Literary Arts is honored to have accomplished poets, journalists, novelists, essayists, and playwrights teaching creative writing to high school students in the Writers in the Schools program. This month, the public will have the opportunity to hear from a selection of WITS writers-in-residence as they share their own pieces. The event will include readings by

Come celebrate the next generation of writers during our Writers in the Schools end-of-residency readings. 

Hear students read the impressive and original creative writing pieces they produced during the semester-long WITS residency at Madison High School. 

The WITS Alliance hosts a happy hour and reading at Literary Arts.

Listen to Lincoln High School students read their original writing, crafted during their semester with a professional writer in a WITS residency.

Roosevelt High School students worked with professional writers for ten weeks on original creative writing pieces. Come hear them read their work in the cozy Cathedral Coffee.

Hear Franklin students read their original creative writing in the company of friends, family, and community members, as they celebrate the end of their Writers in the Schools residencies.

Listen to original writing from Grant High School students as they wrap up their Writers in the Schools residencies. This year's host classes include Writing for the Arts and a Digital Media course.

Gresham High School students read their inspiring and original creative writing, celebrating the end of their Writers in the Schools residencies.