2022 Bechtel Prize Winner
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…
T&W Students Win Citywide Writing & Art Contest
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…
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…
We Remember: Memorial & Workshop
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…
Spring Programs
This May, Teachers & Writers Collaborative is offering three exciting FREE workshops for older adults (55+ years), in partnership with the Brooklyn Arts Council. To register online, click the titles below. Or you may email register@twc.org or call (917) 398-2880. Bringing Life to Our Life Stories: Writing Memoir With Playwright Frank Ingrasciotta Online…
Paris Review
Award from The Paris Review On April 12, 2021, The Paris Review announced T&W as the recipient of a generous gift in honor of our work. The Paris Review Editorial Committee elected to donate the $5,000 usually awarded to the winner of the Terry Southern Prize for Humor to an organization providing financial support to…
There is “Still Life” at Home Extended Image Gallery
Below is an extended gallery of the pieces collected from the students who participated in the “THERE IS STILL LIFE AT HOME: THE SKETCHBOOK PROJECT AT GRIOT”.
There is “Still Life” at Home
Spring 2021- Teachers & Writers partnered with SAGE Griot Circle to offer LGBT elders of color the opportunity to learn still life drawing through online classes. The following is a description of the program and some of the work shared by the participants. THERE IS STILL LIFE AT HOME: THE SKETCHBOOK PROJECT AT GRIOT CIRCLE In…
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