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Our Mission
To fosterthe educationand development of readers,
writers, and audiences
by putting them in touch
with quality literature, each other,
and thecommunities
in which they live and write.
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The Literary Artsare more about theQUESTIONthan
the ANSWER
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Artistic Quality
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Best Literary Experience
The Dallas Observer
Best of Big D
D Magazine
Recorded for radiobroadcast beforea LIVE audience
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Hosts include Catherine Cuellar,Yolette Garcia, Joyce King, RandyGordon, Gary Reaves, and the late
Glenn Mitchell
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Walter Mosley at a VIP Receptionfor the Writers Studio
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Umberto Eco
The good of a book
lies in its being read.
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Writers eventscan be boring.
The WritersStudio is
anything but.
D Magazine
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Esquire describesMoody as that rare
writer who can make
the language dotricks and stillsuffuse his narrativewith soul.
Rick Moodyauthor of The Ice Storm
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A GOOD FIT:Creative Writing,
During / After-School
Programs,&Social Services
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Promise House
Trinity River Mission
City Square
Oil & Cotton
and others . . .
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The difference between the
right word and the almost rightword is the difference betweenlightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain
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Internationally acclaimed Palestinian-Americanpoet, Naomi Shihab Nye, speaks to teens atWoodrow Wilson High School about how writing
can inspire tolerance among cultures.
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Kindness
Before you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a momentlike salt in a weakened broth.What you held in your hand,what you counted and carefully saved,all this must go so you knowhow desolate the landscape can bebetween the regions of kindness.How you ride and ridethinking the bus will never stop,the passengers eating maize and chickenwill stare out the window forever.Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,you must travel where the Indian in a white poncholies dead by the side of the road.You must see how this could be you,how he too was someonewho journeyed through the night with plansand the simple breath that kept him alive.
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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voicecatches the thread of all sorrowsand you see the size of the cloth.Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters andpurchase bread,only kindness that raises its headfrom the crowd of the world to sayit is I you have been looking for,and then goes with you every wherelike a shadow or a friend.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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#1 Reason kids drop outof school: poor reading& writing skills
#1 Expense for U.S.businesses & corporations:poor reading & writing skills.Over $235 billion spenteach year trying toremedy the problem.
So how do we help?
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Everyone likes to talkabout themselves.
Why should kids be anydifferent? Make theirideas, imaginations,
intereststheir livesthe heart of reading and
writing, and they willlove it!
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We inspire young people to create a workof their own to share with others . . .
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and garner fanfare from family, peers,and the public
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Young people care about quality wheneveryone can see their name in print . . .
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Do you think ANY of these kids are in danger
of dropping out because they are afraidof reading & writing?
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WINSkids readingtheir work at Starbucks
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Young Garret writers from Woodrow Wilson High
being honored at a local Rotary Club luncheon
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Arts and culture play a significant role in education,in life-long learning, and well-being for all people
in all economic levels.
City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs
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Literature is the STORY of who we ARE as a PEOPLE
Diversity
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Cristina Henriquez:acclaimed writer,
but also Garret WINSinstructor & CAMP mentor
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Londoner Chris Cleavepresented his work with WestAfrican Storyteller,Babatunde Solarin
Cleave also taught a coursefor The Writers Garret
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Acclaimed novelistJames Ellroyvisits The Garret
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Garretspecial event
Ill never stop believing it: Robert Olen Butler
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Ill never stop believing it: Robert Olen Butler
is the best living American writer, period.
Jeff Guinn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Conducting a Garret Master Class
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DiningwithMichael Blake
Fred Turner
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TexasTalent,too
Native Americanwriter & winner of the
American BookAward, AllisonHedge Coke
Mark Doty
Bernestine Singley
B ildi lit
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Building a literarycommunity in Dallas
through events,
educational outreach,media projects, andprofessional
developmentopportunities for
writers and educators.
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We bring the Literary Arts to LIFE
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To learn more about The Writers Garret
call 214.828.1715or visit our website
http://www.writersgarret.org
"Let a man in a garret but burn
with enough intensity,and he will set fire to the world."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery