Reading Time: < 1 minute Pissing in pairs before stringing the wire for our night camp perimeter as evening comes nearer, we’re pissing in pairs while passing the grass,
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Bill Smutko The green glow of the radium number on my watch show it’s three A.M. The rough sheets smell of laundry detergent and bleach.
Reading Time: 3 minutes We’d been close friends once, he and I. But I’d gone off to have the Marines make a man out of me, and he’d stayed
Reading Time: 4 minutes by Jan Knispel Slowly you enter the double doors of this old building and step up the stairs where numerous students have stepped before. You
Reading Time: 5 minutes My Introduction to Conspiracy Theories I was 15 years old when 9/11 happened. Like many others in the U.S. I can remember exactly where I
Reading Time: < 1 minute Did you know that Weeping Water School uses the National Writing Project’s College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP) to teach critical reading and writing to
Reading Time: 4 minutes Emptiness through Isolation Isolated. Exhausted. Depleted. The three feelings which most accurately portray my physical and emotional state at the end of my fourth year
Reading Time: 4 minutes Jonas typically sat in silence throughout my entire class period, a downtrodden look on his face. He made it crystal clear he did not want
Reading Time: 5 minutes Another email, another professional development meeting, another day of planning lost. When I was first introduced to the College, Career, and Community Writer’s Project (C3WP),
Reading Time: 2 minutes By: Stephanie Hurt, Greater Madison Writing Project Getting student voices out into the world is something many teachers strive to do. An immediate, highly-visible way
Reading Time: < 1 minute On November 17, 2021, six veterans read their writing, featured in a newly-published anthology, to an assembly of family members and supporters at UNL’s East
Reading Time: 4 minutes It was the end of the period in English 9. My students and I were wrapping up day four of a mini-unit on argument writing,
Reading Time: < 1 minute Oxbow’s Fall Writing Marathon is scheduled for Saturday, November 20 from Noon to 3:00 at the Joslyn Art Museum. The members of Oxbow are extending a
Reading Time: 4 minutes Crossing the state line to see my grandparents meant crossing into a new world. It required a mental shift, shelving the knowledge I’d accumulated from
Reading Time: 3 minutes Author’s Note: Much of this writing began on a writing marathon at St. Benedict’s Retreat Center in Schuyler, Nebraska in late July, 2020. While out
Reading Time: 3 minutes Experience what it’s like to dig into a poetry experience based around the features of Agate Fossil National Monument with Agate Rangers, Writing Project teachers,
Reading Time: 4 minutes I have written in the city and in the country, in kayaks, buses, bars, restaurants, cafes, bookstores, art galleries and museums, next to rivers –
Reading Time: 2 minutes By Emily Fisher I open my eyes to the quiet murmurs down the hall – slippered feet pad upon the tile floor. The coffee aroma
Reading Time: 2 minutes From pedagogy to digital platforms, educators have switched our focus in much less time than imagined throughout remote/hybrid/in person learning during this time of Covid
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Mrs. Schmidt, did you know that the budget issues in the district stem from a bill in the Nebraska Legislature? I think I’m going to
Reading Time: 2 minutes Over 35 Years In Nebraska Writing Project I came to Nebraska Writing Project in 1984, as a new professor fresh from a doctoral program focused
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Writing Lincoln Initiative is proud to invite you to the WLI Spring Writing Marathon. Following in the tradition of our NeWP collaborators, this writing
