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The Nature of Words Announces Spring Workshops

Adult writing classes include a poetry broadside project, personal storytelling, getting freelance magazine article gigs and travel writing for fun and profit. Enroll today!

Creative Writing Competition Issues Call for Submissions from Writers in Pacific Northwest

The 2014 Rising Star Creative Writing Competition is open for submissions, which are due June 1, 2014.The competition is open to commercially unpublished writers in three genres, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction and Poetry, and three age categories, 15-18, 19-25 and 25+.

February 2014 Adult Classes

"Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here" A project in collaboration with Atelier 6000 with instructor Matthew Nicolau

January 2014 Adult Classes

"Travel Writing for Fun and Profit" with Kim Cooper Findling "First Speak" personal story telling with Shay Knorr

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Creative Writing Programs

The Nature of Words offers the following year-round creative writing programs for youth and adults:

The Storefront Project

Words Without Walls

Rising Star Creative Writing Competition

SpeakNOW

Annual Anthologies Now Available for Purchase Online!

Each year, The Nature of Words publishes student work from its year-round educational programs in the Annual Anthology of Student Writing. This year's edition, titled "Lost and Found," features the winners of the Rising Star Creative Writing Competition, and writing from Words Without Walls and The Storefront Project. Copies are for sale at The Nature of Words or by clicking the Buy Now Button below, at $15 for the newest edition and $10 for past editions that are still in stock.

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