Writing Innovators
Founded in 1967, Teachers & Writers Collaborative is one of the first writers-in-the-schools programs, with a 50+ year history of delivering innovative creative writing programs that increase access to the arts, build community and amplify youth voices.
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Our Most Recent Article
- Multilingual Approaches Toward English Prose May 17, 20222022 Bechtel Prize Winner Shilpi Suneja's students make language their subject. "The dominance of English is a lie we tell ourselves."
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Student Artwork from City of Water
Three students won awards in the NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection’s Water Resources Art & Poetry Contest. The students were participants in the “City of Water” poetry program, offered by T&W for the second year to 4th grade students at the East Village Community School in partnership with the Dept. of Environmental Protection.…
Watercolor Workshop Exhibition
Spring 2022 — This winter, amidst Covid, the cold, and the challenges of zoom, SAGE Griot Circle members enjoyed an eight week watercolor introduction class with T&W teaching artist Susan Newmark Fleminger. The program is one of a handful of creative aging programs offered by T&W. Susan is a mixed media artist exploring themes of memory,…
T&W Receives Literary Arts Emergency Fund Award
T&W is honored to be a recipient of a grant from the Literary Arts Emergency Fund, supported by the Mellon Foundation (@MellonFdn). Following is a press release from the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses about the award, which provides much needed support to the literary arts field. The Literary Arts Emergency Fund Awards $4.3 Million to Historically…