Missoula Writing Collaborative

The Missoula Writing Collaborative teaches literary competence, critical thinking, cultural awareness, and artistic joy through creative writing.

We place writers in school classrooms, after-school programs, youth homes and other venues to show young people the power of words and help them find their voices as writers. We are a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization committed to reaching the underserved members of our society.

Each year we teach over 1500 kids to love to write.

The Missoula Writing Collaborative is a proud member of The WITS Alliance: A professional network of literary arts education programs and individuals. Learn more at http://witsalliance.org/.

The Missoula Writing Collaborative has been working in classrooms in Western Montana since 1994, and have even worked in Hawaii and Alaska! In our 22 years we've worked with more than 35,000 students in Western Montana classrooms.

In 2018, the Missoula Writing Collaborative collected over 500 poems about the many different places--mountainsides, parks, carousels, waterslides-- that kids know and love around Missoula. With help from Geodata Services and Xplorer Maps, we transformed the poems, drawings, and recordings from each student into an interactive Missoula Children's Poetry Map which you can explore here: https://arcg.is/jynGj