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John Handley High School in Winchester has three high school English position openings (though only one is currently advertised) and are in special need of someone who can teach AP English 11 or 12 with dual enrollment.  This requires a Masters with at least 18 graduate hours in English.  Interested teachers for all of the [...]

by Karin Tooze, NVWP TC and 2012 Agnes Myer Teacher of the Year Note: On May 8, 2012 Karin Tooze delivered the alumni address at the George Mason University English department awards ceremony.  Below is the full text of her speech. Allow me to be among the first to congratulate you on your award this [...]

Summer Writing Workshops Announced in the Shenandoah Valley on June 28th and 29th. REGISTER NOW The Northern Virginia Writing Project in the Shenandoah Valley has scheduled two workshops this summer at Shenandoah University in Henkel Hall that offer a new experience for our young writers. This summer, students get to work with a published author in [...]

By Laura Tornello, NVWP TC I don’t write poetry. My thoughts come more naturally in prose, and to write poetry is to cut. I’ve never felt comfortable with the process of constructing a poem, and more often than not, I feel like an imposter; I add some vague imagery that may or may not be [...]

      Our good friends at the Fall for the Book festival in partnership with George Mason University’s nationally ranked graduate writing program proposes an initiative called the Sally Merten Fellowship Program that will send trained graduate students into school classrooms to lead weekly creative writing enrichment classes and special-topic writing seminars on a [...]