CWI Anywhere! Kilbourne Middle School Get Adults and Students Writing Side-by-side

NaNoWriMo’s Come Write In program has partnered with bookstores and libraries around the world for four years. This November, for the first time, we’re welcoming community spaces of all kinds to become novel-writing havens. 

In the continuing adventures of Come Write in Anywhere!, NaNoWriMo intern Steve Genise sits down with Kilbourne Middle School media director Erik Burgeson to talk about bringing writing into the middle schools of America:

Is Kilbourne Middle School part of the Young Writers Program?

We are one of the first schools in our district to participate in YWP. We were joined last year by one of our “feeder” elementary schools, Evening Street Elementary. We would love to see other schools in our district participate. As we get more comfortable with integrating YWP into our language arts curriculum, we would like to invite other elementaries, and the high schools to join us.

That’s excellent! Have you taken part in Come Write In before?