News and Events

Join Teachers & Writers Collaborative TONIGHT from 5-7PM for a poetry event celebrating the imaginations of New York City’s young writers!

Poets Melanie Maria Goodreaux and Liza Jessie Peterson will read from A Poem as Big as New York City, a children’s book featuring work written by young people from across the city. Afterwards they will conduct writing workshops for teens and tweens to create their own poetic tributes to the city they love.

Brooklyn Public Library's
Central Library
Trustees' Room Upper Level
10 Grand Army Plaza

June 19, 5-7PM

Rizzoli will publish A Poem as Big as New York City in Fall 2012. Special thanks to the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc. for its support of Teachers & Writers Collaborative’s partnership with the Brooklyn Public Library.

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.