Welcome to Writing Our Hope
Writing Our Hope is an online project committed to publishing works of creative nonfiction and poetry written by young people on the themes of hope, tolerance, and equality. The web project follows the August 2007 publication of Our Hope: Writings and Photographs on Tolerance and Equality by creative writing students at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Writing Our Hope will be featured in the panel, Student Publication Opportunities in Writing and Rhetoric, (on Saturday morning from 8:30-9:45 in session F5 Coffman) at the 2009 Council of Writing Programs Administrators Conference in Minneapolis in July.
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To read the newest issue, click the cover:
The NEW Supplement #2: Common Ground High School
Released May 2009
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REGARDING SUBMISSIONS: VERY IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ
Starting with our next issue, Writing Our Hope will begin including poetry on the themes of hope, tolerance, and equality in regular issues of the 'zine. The inclusion of poetry alongside nonfiction writings has worked so well in the supplements that we will begin including poetry in regular issues now. Writing Our Hope will no longer have a poetry contest. Instead, poetry submissions should be sent as regular submissions, following all appropriate guidelines, during either of the year's submissions periods.
Unfortunately, Issues #3 and #4 of Writing Our Hope and the poetry contest were all cancelled last year due to a lack of submissions. Even after an enthusiastic response to our calls for submissions for issues #1 and #2 during our initial year (2007-2008), we saw very few submissions during our second year (2008-2009), even to the poetry contest. We cannot produce a 'zine without content. The most disconcerting factor is that our project's website has steady traffic and readership, but we received too few student submissions in 2008-2009 to produce new issues for those interested browsers and readers. We are hoping that including poetry alongside nonfiction will increase submissions (and readership) in the future.
Please know that Writing Our Hope is alive and well, and we will continue in 2009-2010! In May 2009, Supplement #2, featuring students of Joan Malerba-Foran at Common Ground High School, was published. And we will open our submissions period in September 2009 for a postponed issue #3 that should include poem and nonfiction from high school students and college undergrads.
If you are a high school teacher, college professor, high school student, or college undergrad who is interested in possible publication in Writing Our Hope, please read the submission guidelines.
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Writing Our Hope is now listed on
Please consider assisting us in widening the scope of this project by committing financial support.
Writing Our Hope is an online project committed to publishing works of creative nonfiction and poetry written by young people on the themes of hope, tolerance, and equality. The web project follows the August 2007 publication of Our Hope: Writings and Photographs on Tolerance and Equality by creative writing students at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Writing Our Hope will be featured in the panel, Student Publication Opportunities in Writing and Rhetoric, (on Saturday morning from 8:30-9:45 in session F5 Coffman) at the 2009 Council of Writing Programs Administrators Conference in Minneapolis in July.
* * *
To read the newest issue, click the cover:
The NEW Supplement #2: Common Ground High School
Released May 2009
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REGARDING SUBMISSIONS: VERY IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ
Starting with our next issue, Writing Our Hope will begin including poetry on the themes of hope, tolerance, and equality in regular issues of the 'zine. The inclusion of poetry alongside nonfiction writings has worked so well in the supplements that we will begin including poetry in regular issues now. Writing Our Hope will no longer have a poetry contest. Instead, poetry submissions should be sent as regular submissions, following all appropriate guidelines, during either of the year's submissions periods.
Unfortunately, Issues #3 and #4 of Writing Our Hope and the poetry contest were all cancelled last year due to a lack of submissions. Even after an enthusiastic response to our calls for submissions for issues #1 and #2 during our initial year (2007-2008), we saw very few submissions during our second year (2008-2009), even to the poetry contest. We cannot produce a 'zine without content. The most disconcerting factor is that our project's website has steady traffic and readership, but we received too few student submissions in 2008-2009 to produce new issues for those interested browsers and readers. We are hoping that including poetry alongside nonfiction will increase submissions (and readership) in the future.
Please know that Writing Our Hope is alive and well, and we will continue in 2009-2010! In May 2009, Supplement #2, featuring students of Joan Malerba-Foran at Common Ground High School, was published. And we will open our submissions period in September 2009 for a postponed issue #3 that should include poem and nonfiction from high school students and college undergrads.
If you are a high school teacher, college professor, high school student, or college undergrad who is interested in possible publication in Writing Our Hope, please read the submission guidelines.
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Writing Our Hope is now listed on
Please consider assisting us in widening the scope of this project by committing financial support.