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Our interns don\u2019t just teach\u2014they mentor, uplift, and help individuals from all backgrounds discover the power of their own voices through poetry and prose.<\/p>\n<p>WITC interns receive invaluable real-world experience in nonprofit work, community service, and pedagogy\u2014essential skills for writers who aspire to be engaged citizens and changemakers. This program isn\u2019t just about honing craft; it\u2019s about impacting lives through storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>Each spring, WITC publishes InRoads, an annual anthology celebrating its participants\u2019 writing and creativity. Contributors to InRoads and their families and friends celebrate with a launch party during the Get Lit! Festival where they are invited to read their work and to take part in the experience of writing as a public act, one with power and range and import.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about this internship opportunity, the InRoads anthology, or for help establishing a creative writing class at your organization, please reach out to WITC Faculty Director Leyna Krow at <a href=\"mailto:lkrow@ewu.edu\">lkrow@ewu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/witcewu.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/witcewu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@writersinthecommunityewu\" target=\"_blank\">Substack<\/a><\/p>\n","blocks":[{"acf_fc_layout":"two-column-explicit","module_background_color":"white","include_header":false,"include_images":false,"intro_title":"","intro_title_style":"","sub_heading":"","intro_title_position":"","include_intro_copy":false,"intro_copy":"","columns":[{"image":false,"title":"Current and Past Placements","heading_tag":"h2","show-hr":true,"copy":"<p>WITC has existing relationships with numerous Spokane organizations, working with a broad cross-section of the community. Interns teach creative writing classes at locations of their choosing, either by continuing on with legacy class placements, or establishing new placements of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Our recent placement locations include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Corbin Senior Activity Center<\/li>\n<li>Odyssey Youth Movement<\/li>\n<li>Spark Central (Poetry After Dark &#038; Level-Up)<\/li>\n<li>Sacred Heart Children\u2019s Hospital (Arts in Healing)<\/li>\n<li>Ferris High School Creative Writing Club<\/li>\n<li>Foray for the Arts<\/li>\n<li>Spokane Writers &#038; Novelists Club<\/li>\n<li>Recovery Caf\u00e9<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s Hearth<\/li>\n<li>Airway Heights Correction Center<\/li>\n<li>Structured Alternative Confinement (SAC) School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"image":false,"title":"InRoads Anthology","heading_tag":"h2","show-hr":true,"copy":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7424 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2020\/10\/InRoads23Cover-pdf-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2020\/10\/InRoads23Cover-pdf-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2020\/10\/InRoads23Cover-pdf.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since 1998, WITC has celebrated the work of its participants by offering publication in InRoads. Each contributing writer receives a free copy at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>Current and past issues of InRoads can be purchased for $8.<\/p>\n"}],"component_options_toggle":false,"component_options":{"disable_component":false,"nickname":"","identifier":"","navigable":false}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","module_background_color":"off-white","copy":"<h2>Community Voices<\/h2>\n<p class=\"sub-header\">Spokane School District Creative Writing Contest<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2019\/10\/SpokaneArtsLogo-292x300.png\" alt=\"Spokane Arts Logo\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2019\/10\/SpokaneArtsLogo-292x300.png 292w, https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2019\/10\/SpokaneArtsLogo-768x789.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2019\/10\/SpokaneArtsLogo.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/>From January to March, 2020, WITC will welcome all high school students from Spokane School District (SSD) to participate in a creative writing prose contest. The district\u2019s English teachers and department leads are supporting WITC in developing the proposed contest and have agreed to integrate it into their English or creative writing curricula. MFA graduate students interning for WITC will also visit individual classrooms and conduct pro-bono craft lessons and workshops where students can share their work and receive encouraging guidance and feedback in real-time. An estimated 450 students enrolled in these English classes, creative writing electives, and after-school writing clubs from the seven SSD high schools will thus receive an opportunity to create and submit a 2000-word piece of fiction or nonfiction to the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Community Voices has been made possible in part by a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokanearts.org\/grants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAGA grant<\/a>\u00a0from the Spokane Arts Fund. This\u00a0SAGA funding will help the program increase its reach, improve its materials, and publish and distribute the contest participants\u2019 work in their regular journal,\u00a0<em>InRoads<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokanearts.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.spokanearts.org<\/a>\u00a0for more information on the SAGA program.<\/p>\n","no_wrapper":false,"component_options_toggle":true,"component_options":{"disable_component":true,"nickname":"Spokane Arts","identifier":"","navigable":false}},{"acf_fc_layout":"mirror-content","page":6327,"component_options_toggle":false,"component_options":{"disable_component":false,"nickname":"","identifier":"","navigable":false}}],"secondary_nav_menu_type":"parent","component_options_toggle":false,"component_options":{"component_options_toggle":false,"component_options":{"disable_component":false,"nickname":"","identifier":"","navigable":false}},"page_hide_sidebar":false,"page_enable_page_nav":false,"text_style":"allcaps","readability_aid":"overlay","page_override_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23541,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4927\/revisions\/23541"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}