The Colorado Writing Project can help you and your school:

• improve student writing skills and raise state assessment scores
• implement current research and best practices in teaching and writing
• show teachers from all subject areas how to use writing as a tool for learning
• build a cadre of teachers who like writing and who know how to teach it well

Contact us to inquire about:

• summer workshop courses
• follow-up Fall semester workshops
• custom on-site professional development
• curriculum planning
• or assistance with writing assessment design and implementation.

We can help your teachers energize their own and their students' writing lives.

CWP News

CWP Consultant Tim Hillmer's
novel, Ravenhill, in bookstores now

Read a review of the novel . . . [Details]

CWP News

CWP graduate publishes novel that began with a story she wrote in our summer workshop.

Sharon McAnear of Durango recently wrote to CWP to announce the publication of her first novel, Corner of Blue.

Dear Karen,

Thank you, Colorado Writing Project, for lighting a fire under my pen to publish a novel. As of last week, my first novel, CORNER OF BLUE, is on the bookshelf of our local bookstores as well as all the online booksellers' sites! It is the first in a series of five novels that all began with a
short story I wrote in Karen Crawford's CWP class here in 2001. The first chapter begins with that very story. The CWP pen Karen gave me was the same
one that I used to sign the contract with my publisher. No lie.

Thanks again,
Sharon McAnear
Durango