As many of you know, yesterday, October 20th was the National Day on Writing. On October 8th the U.S. Senate passed a resolution declaring the day a national holiday. The aim of yesterday's celebration was for writers of any genre and caliber to pause and take a moment to share their writing. In order to facilitate this, NCTE established the National Gallery of Writing: A free, public (and snazzy) web space for any and all writers to publish their work for any and all to see. The writings showcased in the gallery cover the proverbial gambit of genre: Poetry, fiction, non-fiction, recipes, diary entries, dirty laundry lists, how-to instruction Manuel's, song lyrics, character development plans, word vomit, to-do lists, film reviews, critical essays, rants and beyond. Browsing the gallery is definitely worth one's time.
Patrons of the gallery may utilize the search engine to locate texts by geographic location, key words, age or media type. Numerous galleries have been opened in Rhode Island, including one from URI: WRT 490 at URI, wherein a few of our own tutors' work is featured.
I think it is worth mentioning this "local gallery" idea at the next meeting. Anyone can open a local gallery, and perhaps this could be a nice place for us tutors to represent what we write - and also take up this opportunity to become familiar with one another's writing interests. Jeremiah and Cathryn would make lovely curators...!
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Kate, I'm glad you brought this up! I've been wanting to do something with the gallery, but I haven't found the right opportunity.
ReplyDeleteLooking through it on Tuesday, I was really impressed by the search engine, especially how you can search by the means of production. Though when I searched out pen and paper pieces, I really thought that I would get some pdfs of handwritten work instead of the type face that appeared.
So yeah, I would be down with contributing to a local gallery!
Kate,
ReplyDeleteThis is really neat: I liked the work in the WRT490 gallery! I especially appreciate that it gives a venue for work occurring within the University to get out. Writing for "real" audiences always seems, for me, to make me invest more in the process and products of writing.
Kate,
ReplyDeleteI love this idea. I had this gym teacher in high school that always made us do crazy athletic things, while she would just sit and watch. This proves that we actually write, not just preach.