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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.



Missoula Chilren’s Poetry Map

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

This week’s Monday Poem

Monday Poem: “Masks” by Harper Steele

Summer Camp 2020

This poem was written during our 2020 Summer Camp.
(Listen to Harper read this poem)

I used to give people
A friendly shy smile.
To tell people,
Hey! You can trust me
Every once in a while.
But now I am hidden
Behind my mask.
Comfort is one of
The things that I lack.
No friendly shy smiles,
No sticking out my tongue,
For my face is covered
Till COVID is done.
We wash our hands
Until they are clean
We stay in our houses
Hoping for a vaccine.
We watch protests and violence
All on our screen
We hide our faces
Never to be seen.

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