Conference on Community Writing - Coalition for Community Writing

Conference on Community Writing™

Washington D.C.
Online

October 21-23, 2021

“Connect” Sewn Acrylic Paint on Canvas. © Life Pieces To Masterpieces, Inc.
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“Weaving Narratives for Social Justice Action in the Local, National, Global"

Co-Chairs: Phyllis Ryder and Veronica House

The George Washington University is the proud host of the 2021 Conference

"Making Stories and Sharing them. Front Lines Journalism"

Environmentalist - Political Activist

"Liberating Powers: Community Building in Word, in Deed"

Consultant - Racial Justice - Policy Advocacy - Organizational Change

DeepThink Tanks are participatory, action-oriented working sessions focused on critical social and environmental issues and facilitated by scholars and community leaders. Attendees actively engage with how to address these issues in our teaching, research, community activism, and organizing.

Facilitated by scholars and community leaders, CCW2021 DeepThink Tank themes will include: Environmental Restoration as Racial and Socioeconomic Justice: Interwoven Local and National Community-Engagement Practices; Decolonizing Philanthropy; Disability Justice; The Racial Realism of Narrative: Methodologies of Refusal; Engaging Community through Contemplative Practice and Writehealing; and Spatializing Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

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Interactive Workshops

Workshop sessions involve interactive presentation and collaborative work with participants. Community and university experts will lead educational sessions on a wide array of topics to help attendees learn new skills and processes that they can apply in their own lives and neighborhoods and at their own institutions or places of work.

Why attend this conference?

LEARN

about writing as a tool for social change.

CREATE

projects, pedagogies, research, and partnerships.

CONNECT

with colleagues in your own and related fields and from community contexts — writers, activists, teachers, organizers, and community members. All are welcome!

EXPLORE

how to help catalyze and facilitate social change through various types of research, teaching, and writing about, with, for, and by local and global communities.

More than 1,500 scholars, activists, teachers, and community members have attended our conference.

Our attendees have drawn from 49 states, D.C., and countries around the world.

More than 750 colleges, universities, and community organizations have been represented at the conference.

Mural Art Activation with Michelle Ortiz and Writers-in-Residence, Philadelphia Conference on Community Writing™️

The Prison Story Project Performance, Boulder Conference on Community Writing™️

Attendee Testimonials

I am a scientist/policy maker with NOAA and affiliate faculty at the University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center. I was invited by a colleague, whose field this is. It was without a doubt one of the best conferences I have been to.

How wonderful it was to see colleagues committing themselves to vulnerability, meaningful community work, and the risk it takes to make art out of pain. I was truly privileged and moved to be part of the event. So much wonderful work. Such decent and committed scholars. Many tears of memory and joy.

It was such a great experience. The work on anti racism and decolonial applications to rhetoric was notable and very much like a breathe of fresh air. Thank you for the warmest of welcomes!

Best. Conference. Ever. Thank you!

To join our community, you can register for our Community Writing listserv, a valuable resource and networking space for scholars, students, teachers, and community members.

Members of the list are welcome to post questions, ideas, and announcements about pedagogy, research, publications, projects, and events regarding community writing and related fields.”