The Writing Our Hope Editorial Staff
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.
Call for submissions
On September 1, 2007, Writing Our Hope began accepting creative nonfiction submissions on the themes of hope, tolerance, and equality from any high school student, grades 9-12, in the United States, Canada, or Mexico. In September 2008, we are expanding the project to including writings by college and university students, ages 18-24. We are also accepting submissions from educators of bodies of student work produced during writing-based tolerance- or diversity-themed lessons or activities.
THE 2008-2009 EDITOR:
Rhiannon Johns is a senior creative writing student at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School. She was an assistant editor of Writing Our Hopelast year.
THE FACULTY ADVISER:
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor, and teacher. From 2001-2003, he worked at NewSouth Books, an independent publishing house specializing in Civil Rights-era nonfiction. While working there, he assisted in editing Weren't No Good Times, a book of Alabama slave narratives, and worked on development for the Selma-to-Montgomery National Historic Trail. In 2003, he came to teach creative writing at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School, where he has now edited two student-written books: Taking the Time: Young Writers and Old Stories, a Civil Rights history book, and Our Hope, a literary anthology on tolerance and equality themes. He has also taught creative writing with Auburn University's Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project, with Alabama's statewide ACCESS distance-learning program, and at AUM's Summer Youth College. Dickson was the curriculum development chairman on the organizing committee of The Montgomery Children's Walk, a 2005 event to commemorate Rosa Parks' arrest by walking thousands of school children to state capitol; and he was on the organizing committee for "Using the Past to Reshape the Future," a Civil Rights Education Summit at the Rosa Parks Library and Museum held in 2007.
THE 2007-2008 EDITOR:
Madison Clark was a senior creative writing student at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School. She has placed first in Auburn University Montgomery's Holocaust Essay Contest and in Montevallo University's Jim Harrell Poetry Scholarship competition.
THE 2007-2008 ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Rachel Lewis was second-year sophomore in the creative writing magnet. She had been the fiction editor of the literary magazine, Graphophobia twice.
Rhiannon Johns was a first-year junior in the creative writing magnet.
Send questions or inquiries to the editorial staff by e-mail: ourhope[at]writingourhope.org
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.
Call for submissions
On September 1, 2007, Writing Our Hope began accepting creative nonfiction submissions on the themes of hope, tolerance, and equality from any high school student, grades 9-12, in the United States, Canada, or Mexico. In September 2008, we are expanding the project to including writings by college and university students, ages 18-24. We are also accepting submissions from educators of bodies of student work produced during writing-based tolerance- or diversity-themed lessons or activities.
THE 2008-2009 EDITOR:
Rhiannon Johns is a senior creative writing student at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School. She was an assistant editor of Writing Our Hopelast year.
THE FACULTY ADVISER:
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor, and teacher. From 2001-2003, he worked at NewSouth Books, an independent publishing house specializing in Civil Rights-era nonfiction. While working there, he assisted in editing Weren't No Good Times, a book of Alabama slave narratives, and worked on development for the Selma-to-Montgomery National Historic Trail. In 2003, he came to teach creative writing at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School, where he has now edited two student-written books: Taking the Time: Young Writers and Old Stories, a Civil Rights history book, and Our Hope, a literary anthology on tolerance and equality themes. He has also taught creative writing with Auburn University's Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project, with Alabama's statewide ACCESS distance-learning program, and at AUM's Summer Youth College. Dickson was the curriculum development chairman on the organizing committee of The Montgomery Children's Walk, a 2005 event to commemorate Rosa Parks' arrest by walking thousands of school children to state capitol; and he was on the organizing committee for "Using the Past to Reshape the Future," a Civil Rights Education Summit at the Rosa Parks Library and Museum held in 2007.
THE 2007-2008 EDITOR:
Madison Clark was a senior creative writing student at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School. She has placed first in Auburn University Montgomery's Holocaust Essay Contest and in Montevallo University's Jim Harrell Poetry Scholarship competition.
THE 2007-2008 ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Rachel Lewis was second-year sophomore in the creative writing magnet. She had been the fiction editor of the literary magazine, Graphophobia twice.
Rhiannon Johns was a first-year junior in the creative writing magnet.
Send questions or inquiries to the editorial staff by e-mail: ourhope[at]writingourhope.org