SLWP - Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project

02/23/2022

Does anyone have the materials that George Dorrill used to use in his grammar presentation for summer institutes?

06/02/2020

NWP Virtual Writing Marathon starting June 16th. Register here to join in.

Please join us for an opportunity to write, share, and connect across the NWP network. This summer, when many of us are staying home, eight writing project sites from around the country are inviting you to come write with them through a Virtual Writing Marathon. You can travel the USA, all from home...

05/04/2020

SLWP TC (2005) Leigh Camacho Rourks has a reading today at 2 pm CST from her book of short fiction. Tune in!

We'll see you at @ 3PM ET today for the Black Lawrence Press Virtual Reading Series with Leigh Camacho Rourks, author of Moon Trees and Other Orphans!

Register to attend:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vd--rqDMsG9T1YbwY6brZZ2W1PonkaJGt

04/02/2020

If you are searching for K-College resources for teaching writing, use this link for resources from your fellow Teaching Consultants.

A National Writing Project professional development knowledge base.

04/02/2020

The NWP has opened a national space for us to post our writing. Don't forget that April is also National Poetry Month!

I live in the Bay Area, one of the first areas in the US to shelter-in-place. The first weeks were marked by a gray misty rain, …

04/01/2020

Teacher Consultants -- how are you? We know that many of you have transitioned to teaching online. Do you need help finding resources? Are you writing? What would you like to see from SLWP during this time?

03/29/2020

“I’m Alive. And I Write: Voices from the 2019 New Orleans Writing Marathon,” will be re-broadcast by KSLU (90.9), the campus station of Southeastern Louisiana University, on Sunday, March 29, at 2 P.M. (Central Time).



The show features a dozen writers from Writing Marathons held at a five-day Writing Retreat that the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project and National Writing sponsored last summer in New Orleans.



If you are out of radio range, simply go to KSLU’s webpage (http://www.kslu.org) to listen live over the Internet.



The show will also be archived on KSLU’s “Awards and Recognitions” webpage as “2019 Writing Marathon,” and you can hear it there (along with past Writing Project shows) at any time at this address: http://www.kslu.org/awards_recognition/index.html.



We hope you will tune in and listen to this celebration of writing, New Orleans, and writing teachers of the National Writing Project.



Richard Louth

Director, Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project

We hope you'll be able to tune in, share it, and feel part of the marathon magic again. Dates for 2020's retreat are on hold now, but we hope you're writing and will be able to gather with us again on the other side of this.

Be well and be a writer,

Tracy

kslu awards and recognition

08/22/2019

Robert was a member of the Writing Project, attending summer and advanced institutes.

Robert Weathersby passed away on August 20, 2019 in Hammond, Louisiana. Funeral Home Services for Robert are being provided by Brandon G. Thompson - HAMMOND.

07/08/2019

Can't join us in New Orleans for the retreat this week? Join our Virtual Marathon and write along with us wherever you are. Instructions here: https://www.writingmarathon.com/virtual-writing-marathon

07/03/2019

It’s not too late, SLWP!

Ok, campers. Fans have arrived so you can keep your cool with one hand and write with the other! We are less than a week away from our retreat, and we still have some spots available. Go to our website to register at writingmarathon.com

08/14/2018

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Richard Louth on 40 years at Southeastern Louisiana University.

07/26/2018

I'm pleased to announce that the Writing Marathon will be featured on NWP Radio, Thursday, July 26, 6 PM. You can access it live at the following internet address, or hear it on NWP archives after the broadcast:

https://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/1093

The program was recorded on July 12, in New Orleans, in the VIP Suite of the Le Richelieu Hotel during SLWP's recent New Orleans Writing Marathon retreat.

During the hour-long program, Tanya Baker (Program Director, NWP) interviews five SLWP marathoners (Richard Louth, Tracy Cunningham, Michelle Russo, Kimberly Stuart, Marley Stuart) as well as Susan Martens (Director of Prairie Lands WP, who has written a dissertation on Writing Marathons) and Jack Bedell (Editor of Louisiana Literature and LA Poet Laureate). The program focuses on the nature of the Writing Marathon, how teachers use it, and the recent publication of a collection of Writing Marathon pieces in a special "New Orleans Writing Marathon" edition of Louisiana Literature.

A description of the event from the NWP page is copied below.

We hope you tune in at 6 P.M. Central at this address:
https://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/1093

Richard Louth
Director, SLWP

Join writing project director Richard Louth, and teacher-writers from the Southern Louisiana Writing Project, to celebrate the rich, deep history of the writing marathon, and the most recent issue of the literary journal Louisiana Literature, which celebrates the New Orleans Writing Marathon.