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 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.



This week’s Monday Poem

Monday Poem: “Becoming Water” by Elizabeth

Words with Wings Summer Camp

A poem by Elizabeth from our Words With Wings Summer Camp:

I see the water against
the rocks, and wonder
does it, too, wish to be free? Is it
not satisfied with everywhere
it can go, does it want to be
on land? I put myself in its
place. I become water.
I twist and turn and jump and play.
I am moving fast with the current.
I go under bridges
and up and down, and around
mountains. I go through
foreign countries. Then,
I circle back and see myself,
wandering away.
I have my answer.

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