News and Events

In fall 2012, T&W will launch a searchable Digital Resource Center (DRC) on our website. Initially drawing on material from T&W's 45 years of print publications, the DRC will also include resources provided by other members of the WITS Alliance--a professional network of literary arts education programs and individuals who serve K-12 students and provide professional development for their teachers.

Help us shape this new resource by completing our short survey here. Thank you!

T&W is accepting applications until July 2 for writers to teach during the 2012-2013 school year.  Our roster of teaching artists includes writers whose work has been published, staged, or filmed; and who have experience teaching in K–12 schools and/or youth-serving community organizations. Preference is given to individuals who have taught in New York City or other large urban school districts.  People who can teach in Spanish are especially encouraged to apply.

Writers who teach for T&W do so as independent contractors. We will acknowledge your application within one week of receiving it; we plan to conduct interviews beginning in late July.

To view our application, please go here.

T&W is serving as a nominator for the 2012 Ellen Levine Award, which is administered by the New York Community Trust. The $7,500 award is given to the author of an unpublished fiction book.

Award criteria:

• A nominee for the Ellen Levine Award must be a previously published (not self-published) author of a print edition of one or two works of fiction.
• Manuscripts submitted for the award must be works in progress of at least 75 pages for which there is not yet a publishing contract.

If you want T&W to consider nominating your work for the Ellen Levine Award, please send the following to aswauger@twc.org by Thursday, May 31:

• Brief bio listing one or two previously published works of fiction.
• Outline of manuscript submitted for consideration.
• Unpublished manuscript of at least 75 pages to be considered for the award.

Please send the bio, outline, and manuscript as Word document attachments to an e-mail. T&W will not review submissions that are not sent via e-mail and in Word format.

Note: T&W will nominate only one author for the Ellen Levine Award. Individuals who submit their work to T&W will be informed by early July if they were selected as T&W's nominee. The New York Community Trust will announce the winner of the 2012 Ellen Levine Award in the fall.

Please send questions regarding the Ellen Levine Award to aswauger@twc.org or call 212-691-6590.

Submissions for the 2012 Bechtel Prize must be received by 5:00 PM (Eastern) on Monday, July 2. T&W awards the annual Bechtel Prize to honor an exemplary essay on literary arts education. Submission guidelines for the 2012 award can be found here.