This page is dedicated to resources that foster thoughtful practitioner moves in community and public writing.
The Coalition for Community Writing offers a paid lecture series that is intended to open conversations about community writing praxis. See what they have to offer here. This is an excellent example of institutional collaboration, as practitioners from a broad range of institutions are included!
Poets & Writers hosts a writer’s conference and residencies database. You can filter by location, cost, event date, and deadline. This is a great resource for those seeking conference and residency opportunities!
For those individuals interested in corpus-based pedagogy, writecrow.org is a wonderful resource. Their pedagogical materials page includes lesson materials and goals that are intended to support early college writers and language learners. But the best part might be their repository (which requires registration): it includes syllabi, lesson plans, assignment prompts, and more!
Democracy and the News publishes news articles on a semester basis, and is free for educators and students who register with a .edu email address. Its archive goes back to 2022, and includes a medium-sized repository of government and politics-oriented articles. For those who support writing students with reading, news articles include a ‘news quiz’ that could be used as a comprehension check.
This Creative Commons License Chooser enables any author to assign a creative commons license to their work. Creative Commons, or “open,” licenses provide standardized permissions for sharing and use of creative works that an author holds copyright over. By licensing your work with Creative Commons, you grant permission for everyone to use your work in certain ways.
Internet Archive is an open-access digital library that can be used to both access and share resources. For those who have video files that would not work well being published through YouTube, for example, this is a great alternative. Registration is free, which allows you to access/share books, audio, and video files.
First Year Composition by Amy Larson is an open source (creative commons licensed) composition textbook that includes chapters on rhetorical analysis, revision, reflection and narratives, public writing, and visual literacy. The public writing chapter emphasizes digital public writing, and emphasizes the non-specialist genre features of online writing that distinguish it from academic writing. Print and images are high contrast and accessible. See Larson’s textbook here.
The Virginia Community Writing Collaborative 