| A Community of Writers Who Are Kids
Nina contemplates just the right word. Photo by Nate Goodburn.
Saturdays in September
We started our series of weekend workshops with a special China in Missoula project where 25 kids wrote about the art of Central Asia and shared their work at a public reading.
Watch for Saturdays in January and Saturdays in April.
Yu Wenya Yellow Trees, 1996 Woodcut Yellow Trees I am blind I can not see but I can hear and smell. I can hear the wind in the trees. I can smell the beauty of life. Brandon Hensley
Homecoming Parade 2012
First we take north Higgins ... then we take the world.
 
 
Thanks to Bill Caras of Caras Nursery for the fabulous truck, to John Goodburn for securing the Big Pencil, to new MWC writer Catherine Bailey for biking along, to Montana's Poet Laureate Sheryl Noethe with her sash and her crown, and to the Blue Shirt Brigade, indefatigable, as always.
Montana Festival of the Book
This panel of pundits knows pedagogy.
Sol Wozniak, Marley Glessner, Elissa Taylor, Magnolia Chinn, Hanna Huang, and Meredith Walker (ages 10-13) spoke about the challenges and merits of creative writing at the Montana Festival of the Book in Missoula in October.
KUFM's Annie Garde was Moderator.
Click HERE to learn about "writing for the fourth and fifth grade crowd."
Our Town
... is a very, very, very fine town.
MWC staff met with Mayor John Engen to thank him for his letter of endorsement for the MWC's successful NEA Our Town application, with Missoula County Public Schools as co-applicant. The grant will bring creative writing to all MCPS fourth grade classrooms, with additional community teaching and activities focused on the experience of wilderness in our town.
(left to right, MWC Artistic Director Sheryl Noethe, Mayor Engen,
MWC Executive Director Megan McNamer, and MWC Project Director Margie Dougherty-Goodburn,
who will coordinate the two-year Our Town project.)
In his letter to the NEA, Mayor Engen wrote:
"The emphasis in the MWC's Our Town project on the natural world, and the program of community activities and events featuring creative writing, make this an ideal project for the city of Missoula -- a place known for having as many published and aspiring writers as wild deer in the streets. (In both cases, many.)
I look forward to this project and expect to be an eager participant in some of the ongoing and culminating events. I believe that Missoula will be enlivened and enriched by it, with the younger generation becoming important participants in the ongoing story we tell ourselves about life in this town."
Coming Up: Where are they, what are they doing, and why? Watch for news of the MWC's resident writers in the very next newsletter.
What day is it? What month? What year?
Watch for our soon-to-be-released thirteen-month calendar.
Sleek and lit-rich.
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