At Writers in the Schools (WITS), we encourage students to use art as inspiration for their writing. Here is a wonderful contest where young people, ages 9-14, choose their favorite Vincent van Gogh painting and write a creative story based on it. Carol Sabbeth, author of several lovely art history books for children, is sponsoring [...]
This weekend a free writing workshop will be held at HCC, and former WITS luminaries Victoria Jones, Randy Watson, and Tony Diaz will be leading sessions. Here’s the scoop: The Johnny Harris Writers Group Writing Workshop What: Fiction and Poetry workshops Where: HCC Central Campus (rooms TBA) When: Saturday, June 11, 2011, from 8 am [...]
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Tagged dave parsons, free writing workshops, poetry, randy watson, tony diaz, victoria jones, Workshop, Writer Resources
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WITS invites you to The Watchful Eye Reading, at 7PM tonight at the Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross. Writers in the Schools (WITS) has developed a unique program (initiated with the support of The Menil Collection in 1989) in which students visiting the museum write poetry and prose inspired by the work on view. WITS [...]
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I see with my artist’s eyes a rainbow in the sky. It has lots of color: Blue, purple, pink, orange, red, white, and green. I am at the beach. At first, the water is cold. Then the water turns hot. My mom gets into the water. It’s cold for her, and then it’s hot. Then, [...]
As I walked towards the front entrance of E.O. Smith Education Center to observe WITS Writer Deborah Wiggins, I sensed love in the air. On this Valentine’s Day, Wiggins’ writers were preparing to work when I slipped through the classroom door. An international performance poet with a commanding stature, Wiggins is a take charge teacher [...]
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What is Green? Is it the fresh cut grass or the lime in your tea? Does it feel like the powder when you put your makeup on? Green is life. Looking at the bright green field makes you root for your team. The celery in your hand. The green water. Listen. Wait. Splash! Seeing an [...]
If you are my future you should know when I was 5 years old I thought I would be a doctor or when I was 12 years old I thought I would be a psychologist. You remember how I expected my birthday to be celebrated but it wasn’t and how I wanted to stay in [...]
Soon schools, libraries, and community centers around the country will display the official 2011 National Poetry Month poster unveiled by the Academy of American Poets last January. You can download a full-size pdf of the poster by clicking here or request a free copy to be sent to you while supplies last. Writers in the [...]
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It makes me dizzy just looking at it because most things are in the air and sideways. The bride looks like a candy wrapped in foil. There’s a ghostly figure at the bride’s side. The bride doesn’t notice him. She looks at us with very sad eyes. Her veil is as white as snow, and [...]
A dancer is not afraid of a crowd and is not afraid to be on stage. She is dancing with all her heart. She does not think if people are saying bad things. She practices and practices until she sees her- self as a dancer. She has long hair. Her voice sounds like an angel [...]
Yellow Like a beaming, little bugs shining for attention, it sticks out like the sun sticks the world out with light. Red Steaming creatures sparkle into flames of one little color. It sounds like a fire of beautiful creation. Blue Like the sky and the ocean coming together to make a shining view that never [...]
Today I am different. As I view an ant on a gentle leaf, I feel as if I am strangely different. I feel like the ant is normal, like doing homework. The paper would be a magnificent landscape with ink and lead to be its grass and trees. As the grass grows, the pencil works [...]
An artist is a forest, coloring the trees, thinking of the perfect pattern, painting what he sees to brighten the dull day, sketching the sun to beam on the hidden dullies, drawing forest animals over the unwanted, creating the picture to enlighten his depressed day, visualizing the happiness that brings out his love. By Parris, [...]
Ready, set, go! Houston writers and artists in grades kindergarten – 3rd for the 2011 PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest now accepting entries until March 21st. Sharpen your pencils and your thinking skills for a chance to write and illustrate your stories, and win prizes for your hard work. To enter, click here.
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Registration for the 2011 Summer Creative Writing Workshops is open today. Our program, named the Best Summer Program for Kids by the Houston Press, is produced through a 20-year collaboration between WITS and Rice University. This year we’ve expanded to six locations conveniently located throughout Greater Houston. Click here to register online or view our website for more information.
