Writers in the Community

Writers in the Community We support the Spokane writing community by placing MFA students as writing teachers at schools, hospitals, correctional facilities and other locations.

Writers in the Community is a project that places MFA students as creative writing teachers in public schools, alternative schools, hospitals, corrections facilities, factories, halfway houses, nursing homes, and other locations throughout the Spokane area. WITC also publishes InRoads, an annual anthology of work collected from all of our various placements throughout the year. MFA candidates have

full editorial control of the anthology. WITC employs one Student Director (a second year MFA candidate who gets both tuition remission and a stipend) along with an assistant (a first year candidate who takes internship credits)who usually moves into the Student Director position the following year. WITC and Willow Springs also partner up to offer a program called Triceratops. Triceratops places pairs of graduate students in third-grade classrooms around Spokane, where they teach poetry for one hour a week, for four consecutive weeks. At the end of the project there is a reading/party, and the third-graders go home with a bound book of their class poems. This is a popular internship opportunity, and one that is growing by the year.

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668 N Riverpoint Boulevard
Spokane, WA
99202

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5098281488

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