Writing Our Hope is an online project committed to publishing works of creative nonfiction 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 students at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama.

Need help starting your own socially conscious, community-based writing project? Try these books for good ideas and solid pedagogy.

Class Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language by Stephen Parks. NCTE, 2000.

Writing Partnerships: Service Learning in Composition by Thomas Deans. NCTE, 2000.

Teaching to Transgress: Education a s the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks. Routledge, 1994.

Writing Our Communities: Local Learning and Public Culture by Dave Winter and Sarah Robbins. NCTE, 2005.

Writing the Community: Concepts and Models in Service-Learning in Composition edited by Linda Adler-Kassner, Robert Crooks, and Ann Watters. NCTE, 1997.

Writing for Change: A Community Reader edited by Ann Watters and Marjorie Ford. McGraw-Hill, 1995.

June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint edited by Lauren Muller and the Blueprint Cooperative