The National Writing Project focuses the knowledge, expertise, and leadership of our nation's educators on sustained efforts to improve writing and learning for all learners. Unique in breadth and scale, the NWP is a network of sites serving teachers across disciplines and at all levels. We provide professional development, develop resources, generate research, and act on knowledge to improve the teaching of writing and learning in schools and communities.
826 National is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing at seven locations across the country. Our mission is based on the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.
Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here.
Written a novel, short story, poem, or piece of nonfiction lately? Your work could be published in Teen Ink! Now celebrating its 23rd year, the magazine reaches students in schools nationwide. There is no charge to submit or to be published, and they guarantee reading every single submission. Send in your work today!
Take My Word For It! is a word incubator—a place where kids can have a grand old time and feel safe and supported while they grow as writers. We work with young authors in after-school and community-based settings, as well as in summer writing camps in the East Bay, and San Francisco.
Just like NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program, National Novel Writing Month's adult program is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1 and their goal is to write a 50,000-word novel by midnight, November 30.
Script Frenzy brings the hands-on, inclusive approach of NaNoWriMo to the world of screenplays, stage plays, graphic novels, and TV scripts. Participants first learn the basics of scriptwriting, including structure and formatting, before rolling up their sleeves and writing their own 100-page blockbuster (or art-house masterpiece) in the month of April. Script Frenzy also offers a Young Writers Program.
