Dear Friends:
As of Fall 2004 the Greater Phoenix Area Writing Project has been discontinued. This website will be maintained on a limited basis for a short time so that you are able to access the resources provided. All the best to you in your teaching.
GPAWP Summer Institute 2004
The Young Adult Writing Project (YAWP) 2004
A Drive-By Sharing by a Teenage Writing Gang
Fees Fire Writers Field Trip to ASU English
ASU Symposium on the Works of Ursula K. Le Guin
Maricopa Community Colleges In-Service Session
Gerald Viznor Events
A Visit by Nikki Grimes
Writing Work, Spirit Work: Telling Our Stories, Saving Our Lives
Writing Matters: Personal Writing to Research
Speaker: Author Jack Gantos
No More Dead Dogs: Breathing Life Into the Standards (AETA State Conference)
"Take Back thDecember 8, 2005 GPAWP Summer Institute 2003
Open Enrollment 2003
A "Drive-By Sharing"
A Presentation by Tom Romano
Rural Sites Network Writing Project Retreat
"Writing Work, Spirit Work: Telling Our Stories, Saving Our Lives" Workshop
2003 Peace Teachers Gathering
GPAWP Summer Institute 2004
The "heart" of the Greater Phoenix Area Writing Project is the Summer Institute . . . It's an intensive writing workshop for teachers . . . June 1- July 1, 2004, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., Monday-Thursday. Arizona State University Language & Literature Building. Click here for registration dates & deadlines. School Districts interested in enrolling teachers in next year's Project or anyone seeking more information should contact:G. Lynn Nelson, GPAWP Director, ASU Department of English, PO Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. Phone: (480) 965-3105.
"I watch what is happening among my friends of the GPAWP, and I see what I have dreamed of all my life as a teacher: a caring community of learners sharing what they know, taking the risk to reach out and touch one another."
--Lee Atonna, Roosevelt Elementary District, Phoenix, Arizona
The Young Adult Writing Project (YAWP). Language & Literature Building (LL), ASU; Monday--Thursday, 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., June 7 - 24, 2004
G. Lynn Nelson, GPAWP/YAWP Director, ASU Department of English, PO Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. Phone: (480) 965-3105.
"A Drive-By Sharing by a Teenage Writing Gang"
A public reading by students of the Young Adult Writing Project (YAWP). Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe; Wednesday, June 23, 2004, 7:00-8:00 p.m.G. Lynn Nelson, GPAWP/YAWP Director, ASU Department of English, PO Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. Phone: (480) 965-3105.
Fees Fire Writers Writing Club Field Trip to ASU English
Will include visits to English Dept. classes and a poetry performance. May 3, 2004, Language & Literature Building (LL), ASU; 9:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. More info. TBA.For more information contact Dr. Jim Blasingame, Jr., ASU Department of English, PO Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. Phone: (480) 965-6074.
ASU Symposium on the The Works of Ursula K. Le Guin
The Symposium takes place April 2, 2004 at the ASU University Club, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. In addition to her writings being the focus of the symposium, Ms. Le Guin will address audiences later that day at The May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture, 7:00 p.m. at the ASU Galvin Playhouse. Admission is to the Arbuthnot Lecture event is FREE, but tickets are required (click here for ticket info.).Sponsored by the American Library Assocation (ALA), the Maricopa County Library District, and Arizona State University. For more information please contact Dr. Alleen Nilsen at ASU English Education: Phone: (480) 965-3105 or Email: Alleen.Nilsen@asu.edu
Maricopa Community Colleges In-Service Session
Dr. G. Lynn Nelson will conduct an "Open Enrollment" meeting as well as an In-Service session for Maricopa Community Colleges teachers. Friday, March 5, 2004.
Gerald Vizenor Events
‘George Morrison: An Anishinaabe Abstract Expressionist,' a preview of the Inaugural Exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian [click title for flyer in MS Word], a campus-wide presentation by Professor Gerald Vizenor, Univ. of California-Berkeley, Wednesday, March 3, 2004, ASU Art Building, Room 220 (ART 220), 12:05pmHiroshima Bugi: The Native American Trickster and the Atomic Bomb [click title for flyer in MS Word], A reading and discussion by Professor Gerald Vizenor, Univ. of California-Berkeley, Wednesday, March 3, 2004, ASU Nursing Building, Room 101 (NUR 101), ASU; 4:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the ASU Department of English, ASU School of Art, Greater Phoenix Area Writing Project, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, American Indian Institute, and Co-Curricular Programs. For more information please contact Dr. Joe Lockard, at ASU English. Phone: (480) 965-3535 or Email: Joe.Lockard@asu.edu
A Visit by Nikki Grimes
Renowned author and poetess Nikki Grimes will visit ASU English Education, February 26, 2004! She will present in the ASU Architecture Building Auditorium (AED 60) from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Ms. Grimes' Young Adult book, Bronx Masquerade recently won the Coretta Scott King Author Award and her book, Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman received the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and a Coretta Scott King Author Honor. More information on Ms. Grimes' visit will be posted as it becomes available . . .Sponsored by the Arizona State University Department of English. For more information please contact Dr. Jim Blasingame, Jr. at ASU English Education: Phone: (480) 965-3105 or Email: James.Blasingame@asu.edu
Writing Work, Spirit Work: Telling Our Stories, Saving Our Lives
A writing workshop given by G. Lynn Nelson, GPAWP director, writing instructor, and author of the book, Writing and Being, will take place Tuesday, January 27, 2004, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at the Changing Hands Bookstore, at the southwest corner of McClintock and Guadalupe Streets. Click here for MapQuest driving directions, leaving from ASU. The workshop aims to help writers regain the lost power of language "beyond advertising and entertainment," according to Nelson. Participants are asked to bring pen, paper, and their journals. Cost is $20.00; participants must pre-register by calling the Changing Hands Bookstore, (480) 830-0205.For more information contact Changing Hands Bookstore at (480) 730-0205 or G. Lynn Nelson, GPAWP Director, ASU Department of English, PO Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. Phone: (480) 965-3105.
Writing Matters: Personal Writing to Research
G. Lynn Nelson, Director of GPAWP and ASU professor of English Education gives the presentation: "Personal Writing: The Four Commandments and Multi-Genre Styles" for students, faculty, and staff at Paradise Valley Community College, Monday, October 27, 2003, Noon-1:45 p.m. in the M-Theatre. The general public is also invited to attend.
Sponsored by Paradise Valley Community College, a Maricopa Community College. For more information contact John J. Guenther: 623-546-3634.
Speaker: Author Jack Gantos
The author of the 2002 Printz Honor Book, Hole in My Life as well as the prize-winning Joey Pigza stories will speak at 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 21, 2003 in the ASU Architecture Building Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.Sponsored by ASU English Education and the FIPSE Writing Coalition. For more information contact Dr. Jim Blasingame, 480-965-6074.
No More Dead Dogs: Breathing Life Into the Standards
AETA State Conference
The Arizona English Teachers Association (AETA) invites fellow English language arts colleagues and friends to their Fall 2003 Conference . . . October 17-18, 2003, Westview High School, Avondale, Arizona. Artist in-residence workshops with Gordon Korman, http://gordonkorman.com and more! Register online: http://www.asu.edu/aeta.
Click here to download a .jpg version of the conference flyer for posting.For more information contact Lee Brown, ASU West College of Education, PO Box 37100, Phoenix, AZ 85069. Phone: (602) 543-2009.
"Take Back the Power of Language and Be 'Born Again'"
A journaling workshop led by G. Lynn Nelson, GPAWP director, writing instructor, and author of the book, Writing and Being, will take place Monday, September 15, 2003, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at the Changing Hands Bookstore, at the southwest corner of McClintock and Guadalupe Streets. Click here for MapQuest driving directions, leaving from ASU. "This workshop," says Nelson, "is about turning our personal writing into meaningful writing for others -- about reclaiming the power of language, about getting born again -- and again -- through the power of the words and stories within us . . . Bring your heart and your journal." Cost is $20.00; participants should pre-register by calling the Changing Hands Bookstore, 480-730-0205.Sponsored by the Changing Hands Bookstore and the ASU Department of English's Greater Phoenix Area Writing Project. For more information contact Changing Hands Bookstore at (480) 730-0205 or G. Lynn Nelson, GPAWP Director, ASU Department of English, PO Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. Phone: (480) 965-3105.
GPAWP Summer Institute 2003
The "heart" of the writing project . . . Things are gearing up for the 2003 GPAWP Summer Institute . . . June 2 - July 3, 2003, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., Monday - Thursday. Arizona State University Language & Literature Building. Click here for registration dates & deadlines. School Districts interested in enrolling teachers in the Project should contact:G. Lynn Nelson, GPAWP Director, ASU Department of English, PO Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. Phone: (480) 965-3105.
"I watch what is happening among my friends of the GPAWP, and I see what I have dreamed of all my life as a teacher: a caring community of learners sharing what they know, taking the risk to reach out and touch one another."
--Lee Atonna, Roosevelt Elementary District, Phoenix, Arizona
Summer 2003 Open Enrollment Class
ENG 494 (undergraduate - line #57891) or ENG 594 (graduate - line #57881) Download the flyer in Word.G. Lynn Nelson, GPAWP Director, ASU Department of English, PO Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. Phone: (480) 965-3105.
A "Drive-By Sharing"
Young writers with the Young Adult Writing Project (YAWP) share their stories Wednesday, June 25, 7:00 p.m. at Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 S. McClintock Dr., Tempe (located on the southwest corner of McClintock & Guadalupe).Sponsored by the ASU English Education Greater Phoenix Area Writing Project (GPAWP). For more information please call Changing Hands Bookstore, 480-730-0205 or contact G. Lynn Nelson, YAWP Director, ASU Department of English, PO Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. Phone: (480) 965-3105.
2003 Peace Teachers Gathering: for hope . . . for peace . . . for our students . . . for ourselves . . . because we need this now more than ever. Click here to download the flyer with more information, a map, and directions in Microsoft Word.
Our third semiannual informal gathering of teachers. This is NOT a conference, not a course or seminar or workshop, or any other such formally structured event. This is an opportunity to: reclaim our spirits, renew our souls, rededicate ourselves to the power of teaching, explore the peaceful power of writing, talking, collaborating, and communing with like minds and hearts. Saturday, April 26, 2003, 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, 2626 E. Pecos Rd., Chandler, AZ 85225 Student Center (SC Building) Pavilion. Featuring Music for Peace by Walt Richardson. Please bring journals and teaching ideas. Certificates of Professional Development will be available. No registration or membership fee required. Breakfast refreshments served.
Sponsored by GPAWP and hosted by the Chandler-Gilbert Community College. For more information contact Pam Davenport at Chandler-Gilbert Community College, or G. Lynn Nelson, GPAWP Director, ASU Department of English, PO Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. Phone: (480) 965-3105. Or visit http://www.cgc.maricopa.edu/peace/.
"Writing Work, Spirit Work: Telling Our Stories, Saving Our Lives"
A writing workshop given by G. Lynn Nelson, GPAWP director, writing instructor, and author of the book, Writing and Being, will take place Thursday, March 27, 2003, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at the Changing Hands Bookstore, at the southwest corner of McClintock and Guadalupe Streets. Click here for MapQuest driving directions, leaving from ASU. The workshop aims to help writers regain the lost power of language "beyond advertising and entertainment," according to Nelson. Participants are asked to bring pen, paper, and their journals. Cost is $20.00; participants must pre-register by calling the Changing Hands Bookstore, (480) 830-0205.
For more information contact Changing Hands Bookstore at (480) 730-0205 or G. Lynn Nelson, GPAWP Director, ASU Department of English, PO Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. Phone: (480) 965-3105.
Nationally known writer, teacher, and consultant and the author of Blending Genre, Altering Style, and Writing With Passion, presents "Gush and Craft Toward Authentic Voice." Thursday, February 27, 2003, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m., Arizona State University Language & Literature Building, Room 316.
For more information contact G. Lynn Nelson, GPAWP Director, ASU Department of English, PO Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. Phone: (480) 965-3105.
Rural Sites Network Writing Project Retreat
"Blending Voice and Place: A Rural Sites Network Reflection Retreat." Doubletree Hotel at Reid Park, Tucson, Arizona. February 28 - March 2, 2003.
For more information contact Sharon Miller, Southern Arizona Writing Project (SAWP), skmjjgm@earthlink.net or visit http://www.coh.arizona.edu/English/SAWP/rural%20sites.htm
updated: March 30, 2005
