Missoula Writing Collaborative

We teach kids to love to write

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/.

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The Missoula Writing Collborative 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.



This week’s Monday Poem

A Monday Poem

Ode to Mountains by Madison, Cold Springs School, 4th Grade, 2017

Oh, Mountains

You hold the clouds on

Your shoulder as nothing else would.
As the snow shimmers like diamonds,
that have just been polished.
I climb you with your dagger-like rocks
And it is sometimes hard.
You give animals home and shelter
When they can’t trust anyone else.
You are like a shining star in the night.
You are like the most beautiful thing hiking in a box waiting to be opened.

Mountains

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