T&W News

2023 NY Poetry Out Loud Winners

Congratulations to the Poetry Out Loud State Finalists!

By Teachers Writers Collaborative | March 11, 2023

On Saturday, March 11th, we hosted the 2023 Poetry Out Loud New York State Final event at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY.  Twenty students representing schools and counties from around New York State gathered to perform great poetry. The event marked the culmination of several months of hard work and preparation. Students begin…

2022-2023 Strategic Vision

2023-2025 Strategic Vision

By Teachers Writers Collaborative | October 30, 2022

  In the summer of 2022, T&W embarked on a review of our mission, vision, and values. The goal was to consider how these directives might more closely respond to the current landscapes of arts education, social equity, and the needs of the communities we serve. We also wished to remain faithful to the heart…

Soultastic poetry mural at P.S. 178

PUMP Program

By Teachers Writers Collaborative | June 16, 2022

Students at P.S. 178 St. Clair McKelway School in Brownsville, Brooklyn, celebrated the unveiling of SOULTASTIC, OH YEAH! – a mural inspired by their poetry through the Poetry and Urban Mural Project (PUMP). Our thanks the administration at P.S. 178 and to the program’s sponsor: the Leonore Gordon PD Arts and Wellness on the Go…

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Creative Aging Workshop Writers ‘Bring Life to Life Stories’

By Teachers Writers Collaborative | May 20, 2022

May 13, 2022 — Writer and teaching artist Frank Ingrasciotta, along with assistant Napoleon Felipe, held a celebration featuring the work of thirteen participants during a ten-week virtual memoir writing workshop, titled “Bringing Life to Life Stories.” The program was sponsored by the E.A. Michelson Foundation, and facilitated by Teachers Writers Collaborative. Over the course…

2022 Bechtel Prize Winner

By Teachers Writers Collaborative | May 19, 2022

T&W Magazine is pleased to share the 2022 Bechtel Prize winning essay, Multilingual Approaches Toward English Prose, by Shilpi Suneja. In the essay, Suneja describes a writing activity with her students in Hawai’i which asks them to examine their relationships and attitudes toward a language other than English. The resulting student writing was rich and…

Natasha Class Rain Garden

T&W Students Win Citywide Writing & Art Contest

By Teachers Writers Collaborative | May 3, 2022

Three students in an innovative T&W program that combines poetry writing with environmental science 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…

Dorothy Carroll

Watercolor Workshop Exhibition

By Teachers Writers Collaborative | May 3, 2022

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,…

Announcement of the Literary Arts Emergency Fund

T&W Receives Literary Arts Emergency Fund Award

By Teachers Writers Collaborative | April 15, 2022

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…

Brionne Janae

We Remember: Memorial & Workshop

By Teachers Writers Collaborative | May 18, 2021

Visit “We Remember” Memorial Installation in Green-Wood Cemetery, BK until June 28                 Thank you to all who shared their memories and the names of their departed loved ones as part of the “Naming the Lost” project. T&W wrote and colorfully decorated each submission by hand as pictured…

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