2016-11-09T13:12:41-08:00 2016-06-30 Boyle Deveny & Meyer PC 305 South 4th East Suite 200 Missoula MT 59801 990 2015-07-01 810505084 MISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE MISS 4065493348 PO BOX 9237 MISSOULA MT 59807 Caroline Patterson Haefele Executive Dir. 2016-11-09 true KAREN NEEL CPA P00338064 4067213555 2015 2017-02-10 21:41:12Z Caroline Patterson Haefele PO Box 9237 Missoula MT 59807 203855 false false X WWW.MISSOULAWRITINGCOLLABORATIVE.ORG X 1995 MT TEACHING LITERARY COMPETENCE, CRITICAL THINKING AND CULTURAL AWARENESS THROUGH CREATIVE WRITING. 10 10 14 100 0 135289 171249 57116 30815 0 762 1791 193167 203855 0 0 110146 136005 0 4891 53774 52397 163920 188402 29247 15453 49049 61698 3025 221 46024 61477 TEACHING LITERARY COMPETENCE, CRITICAL THINKING AND CULTURAL AWARENESS THROUGH CREATIVE WRITING. false false 164869 30815 MWC teachers are professional writerspeople who have made writing their lifes work. They have written and published many books, poems, stories, essays, and articles, receiving prestigious awards and prizes for their work. MWC Artistic Director Sheryl Noethe was honored with a Missoula Cultural Council Achievement Award in 2004 for her area teaching, and in 2011, was named Montanas Poet Laureate. MWC Executive Director Caroline Patterson was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University and has received fellowships from the Montana Arts Council, the San Francisco Foundation, as well as the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation.The school year of 2015-2016 was a year of exciting growth for the Missoula Writing Collaborative. Early in 2015, we had won enough grants and financial support to put the Missoula Writing Collaborative back into every Missoula County Public School fourth grade. We also funded writing residencies for third-grade through high school-aged children, in locations ranging from one-room schoolhouses to large multi-level classrooms throughout western Montana. Since 1994, we have brought creative writing to more than 37,000 children in twenty schools in western Montana.MWC Writing Residencies: In addition to serving nine Missoula public schools, one Missoula middle school and one high school, the tendrils of MWC extend northeast through Ovando, Potomac and Seeley-Swan schools; northwest to Arlee, Pablo, and St. Ignatius schools; and south into Lolo and Florence-Carlton schools. Our writers in residence have taught poetry to nearly 2,000 children in 2015-2016, completed anthologies and conducted readings for seventeen schools in locations ranging from school gymnasiums to the banks of the Blackfeet River (the Seeley Lake High School), the Hanging Art Gallery (the Arlee Elementary), and the Burns Street Bistro (the Lowell School). In addition, students from Washington Middle School and Lewis and Clark read on Montana Public Radios Pea Green Boat. MWC currently posts Monday poems featuring student work on our Facebook page and we completed an overhaul of our website. Reservation Work: With the suppport of existing and new grantors, MWC was in five schools on the Flathead Reservation, including elementary school classrooms in Arlee, Pablo, St. Ignatius, Dixon, and Ronan. We hosted an all-reservation reading and potluck at Salish-Kootenai College on November 19, 2015, attended by numerous schools, where students read their own work. The student readings at each school were well attended by teachers, parents, and community members. Words with Wings: Our summer camp, now in its twelfth year, had a successful season. Seventy campers ages 8 to 14 wrote ekphrastic poems (poems written in response to art) in collaboration with the Museum of Art & Culture and river poems with the Watershed Education Network. We also started teen writing workshops for ages 15 to 17. The final Words with Wings reading (at which they will receive their anthologies) was held at the Missoula Book Festival at 5:30 p.m. on September 10 at Fact & Fiction.Fiscal Sponsorship: In 2015-2016, MWC became the fiscal sponsor for Free Verse, a program where writers serve kids in juvenile detention centers in Montana.Community Workshops. MWC hosted The Writers Room, a day when community members could take a workshop from MWC writers in downtown Missoula for a nominal fee. The event featured a lunch with a writer discussing writing techniques and an evening cocktail hour at Radius Gallery.New Programs: The MWC will collaborate with the Missoula County Public Schools Spark Initiative, sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. 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