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Elephant March I
WITS Intern Eriel From WITS Intern Eriel: A little under a month ago I started working with WITS Writer MaryScott at Travis Elementary as an assistant teacher. In the past I’ve worked as an “In-home...
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5 Writers Tell Us How WITS Teaching Transformed Them: Susan Bernstein
Susan Naomi Bernstein’s most recent book is Teaching Developmental Writing, Fourth Edition. Her articles on basic writing, social justice, and learning differences have been published in the Chronicle...
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Sign up for the WITS Fall Writing Festival 2013
WITS Fall Writing Festival for Educators: Teaching Writing from Experience This conference is presented by Writers in the Schools (WITS) For educators, grades 3-12 who want to: Improve their own...
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Drop into the Rabbit Hole
Don’t miss the production of Rabbit Hole, directed by WITS writer Rob Kimbro, 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through October 12th at Rice University, 6100 Main. For information, call...
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WITS at TEDx Houston on Saturday
WITS students from the 2013 Meta-Four team and WITS writer Outspoken Bean will be presenters at TEDx Houston 2013 at Rice University on Saturday. Former WITS writers Rick Brennan, Sarah Cortez, and...
View ArticleMeet New WITS Writer Terry Portillo
Terry Portillo lives at the southern tip of Tornado Alley, with her husband, her horse, a donkey, two cats, a motley crew of rescue dogs, some chickens, and whatever else the wind blows in. When Terry...
View ArticleMeet New WITS Writer Patrick James
Patrick Clement James is a poet, essayist, and musician. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, he is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate at the University of Houston. Having taught in...
View ArticleMeet New Writer Mark Williams
Mark Williams grew up outside Chicago, IL. He taught junior high and high school English there for three years before moving south—first to Boone, NC; then Louisville, KY; and now Houston. Currently,...
View ArticleWe Need Your Vote for SXSWedu!
Vote for Writers in the Schools (WITS) and Aurora Picture Show to present our Moving Story Project program at the 2013 SXSWedu conference-the deadline is tomorrow! VOTE and SHARE here. Moving Story...
View ArticleMeet New WITS Writer Chris Cander!
Chris Cander is a novelist, children’s book author and freelance writer whose work has appeared in a wide variety of national publications. Since entering a writing contest in fifth grade, she’s...
View ArticleMeet Acclaimed Children’s Author Lois Lowry
Meet acclaimed children’s author Lois Lowry at Cool Brains! Inprint Readings for Young People Lois Lowry is the celebrated young adult author of over 40 books, including Number the Stars and The Giver....
View ArticleFormer WITS Writer Dr. Matt Boyleston Reading at HBU
Dr. J. Matthew Boyleston, Interim Dean, School of Fine Arts at Houston Baptist University, will read selections from his collection of poetry Viewed from the Keel of the Canoe at 7:00 on Thursday,...
View ArticleWITS Student Writer Gets Published!
Exciting news! A student from our Discovery Green workshops, Amaris S. Bobbio-Tarco’s (6th grade), short story has been published in the 2012 I Write Short Stories by Kids for Kids Anthology. WITS...
View ArticleGulf Coast Reads Celebration this Saturday
Jonathan Safran Foer, whose novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is the 2012 pick for Gulf Coast Reads (www.gulfcoastreads.org) will be at the Houston Public Library this Saturday, October 27, at...
View ArticleDates Announced for Second Saturday Series for Teachers
Following a successful Fall Series, Second Saturdays are back in the Spring with four exciting new workshops for teachers: Teachers, Words, and Art (January 12 at the Menil Collection) Civil “Writes”...
View ArticleAn Evening of Literary Placemaking
Join Writing & C/Siting Houston for an event featuring WITS founder Philip Lopate, WITS Writer Miah Arnold, and great friend of WITS, Bill Monroe, as they share stories about the special places...
View ArticleCreative Writing Camp
Registration is filling up quickly! Within the first 20 minutes of open registration, over 100 students enrolled in Creative Writing Camp, a WITS record! Though it comes as no surprise – with our 8...
View ArticleHope
The ocean writes notes to those who seek its majestic treasure of beauty. My future is swallowed by those who disturb its tranquility. Belief cries and sounds like a person’s heart being double...
View ArticleFarewell National Poetry Month
This April, Writers in the Schools celebrated National Poetry Month and the power of the imagination, reaching 2.3 million people in Houston and beyond! Student words were spread through H-E-B markets,...
View ArticleRevision Strategy #3: Rubber Banding
With younger children, this concrete activity called “Rubber Band Stretching” works well. Demonstrate how a rubber band starts out small and can be stretched much larger. Read a simple sentence out...
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