National Day on Writing

Thanks to teacher, author, and NCTE affiliate leader Jennie Brown for writing this blog. The reason why I write, teach,…

Just as we transition from the National Day on Writing into the rest of the year, we might be thinking…

Thanks to Katherine Sokolowski and her 7th graders for contributing this blog. Last year when NCTE celebrated the National Day…

Three Simple Words Changed His Life “You Can Write.” Those were the three words spoken by a ninth grade English…

The following post was written by Emily Kirkpatrick, Executive Director of the National Council of Teachers of English. She wrote…

Thanks to author Pat Mora for writing this blog.   I look back at my few pieces of writing, in…

We launched a new podcast for the National Day on Writing on October 20th to listen to the first interview…

Words matter, and our ability to use them to express ourselves is a unique quality of being human. This website…

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway Many people…

In the past on the National Day on Writing, we asked many authors to tell us about why they write….