New creative writing class for seniors! WITC intern Hannah will host a weekly workshop at SPL. This class is designed to be welcoming to folks living with dementia and was designed in collaboration with a dementia resource specialist. All are welcome! And, like all WITC programs, it's free!

Our long-running drop-in generative poetry workshop, Poetry After Dark at Spark Central, is moving to a new time with new instructors. Please join us Saturday at 12:30pm to welcome first year WITC interns Harley & Sophia to Poetry After Dark! We know they are going to do great!

WITC is delighted to be working with Spokane Poet Laureate Mery Smith in support of the Youth Poet Laureate program. What fun to see teens engaging with poetry all over town! Join us this Wed. Oct. 29 from 6:30-9 at Neato Burrito for an Open Mic Night Featuring students from the Community School!

Have you met WITC's new student director? Mackenzie is doing tremendous work for our community already. We are so lucky to have them!

Tomorrow! Reading with Poet Laureate and WITC community partner Mery Smith! Gonna be a good one for sure!

Wow! WITC interns did so much during the 24-25 school year! Here's all the things we taught, led, organized, and made.

New on the Substack: Reflections from teaching creative writing at Odyssey Youth Movement! witcewu.substack.com/p/rememberin...

Biggest congrats to EWU's 15 newest Masters of the Fine Arts! This cohort has been such a joy to work with - talented writers, thoughtful educators, dedicated community arts organizers, and such good friends to each other! We are sad to see you all go, but so excited to see what you will do next!

More great press for Bruce & Mery's workshop project at Airway Heights Corrections Center!

New on our Substack: WITC Intern Mackenzie shares lessons from Longfellow Elementary's 2nd grade poets.

Biggest congrats to @mixophrygonium.bsky.social who won this year's EWU Student Leadership Award in Community Service for their work with WITC!! We are so lucky to have you!!

Great article in the Spokesman yesterday about Spokane Poet Laureate Mery Smith's partnership with WITC to bring creative writing classes back to the Airway Heights Corrections Center!

Get Lit! Festival shoutout for Friday! WITC intern Emily Ladd is moderating a panel - "Dynamic Identities in YA Fiction." 2pm at the Central Library!

What a night! Big thanks to everyone who came out to the InRoads release party! And a biggest thanks of all to the authors who shared their work with us. A number of readers said this was their first publication & even their first time reading creative work in front of a crowd!

Come help us celebrate the release of this year's InRoads anthology! Tonight at Spark Central at 5:30pm. We'll hear readings from InRoads authors and celebrate the good work of all our WITC interns and their students.

Happy first day of Get Lit! Spokane's amazing annual literary festival is happening now! Can't wait to see everyone at all of the things!

Just 1 week until we celebrate the launch of InRoads issue 28! Hope you can join us!

Are you at #AWP25? Come visit us & @willowspringsmag.bsky.social at booth T522!

From our Substack - WITC Intern Avery Knochel reflects on her experience teaching fiction at Airways Heights Corrections Center, and her favorite writing prompt for helping students explore conflict.

Big news! WITC student director Bruce Asper is teaming up with Spokane Poet Laureate Mery Smith to lead weekly creative writing workshops at Airway Heights Correctional Facility. WITC has a long history of work with Airway Heights and we are so excited to be back there as part of this project.

New on our Substack, WITC intern & incoming @willowspringsmag.bsky.social managing editor Maki Thiersch reflects on their experience mentoring 3rd-5th graders in creative writing, visual art, and journalism through the Level-Up afterschool program.

Thank you @witcewu.bsky.social for the amazing opportunities this year. Odyssey Youth Movement has fun, creative artists and I can't wait to see where they go!

Tomorrow! WITC intern @mixophrygonium.bsky.social is leading a generative poetry workshop at the Shadle Park Library. They are a fantastic teacher and this workshop is certain to be a lovely time. Free & open to all!

Have you read the first issue of Croak yet? It's edited by a current WITC intern & 2 EWU MFA alums! And it's an absolute delight!

It's Tuesday, which means it's Poetry After Dark! Poetry After Dark is a generative poetry workshop led by WITC interns at Spark Central. It's free & open to the public. Come write with us!

New on our substack today, a message from our Student Director about the incredible work of this year's interns.

WITC has a Substack! Give us a read!

Searching for back issues of our community literary magazine InRoads? We've got 'em going all the way back to 1998. Visit our website or DM to order!