On Thursday, March 5, 2020, the Prairie Lands Writing Project hosted High School Writing Day, an annual gathering of students for a morning of writing activities and workshops with an open mic reading held after lunch. This year, 125 students from ten area schools attended, accompanied by fourteen high school teachers. PLWP Co-Director and the EML department’s Dual Credit Liaison, Amy Miller, coordinated the event. Poet t.l.Sanders, a PLWP Teacher Consultant and spoken word performer (Frontier Schools, KC) served as emcee. Opening session speakers included MWSU’s President, Dr. Matt Wilson, as well as Dr. Bill Church and PLWP Director Dr. Susan Martens.
Workshop sessions for the students, led by MWSU faculty members and area high school teachers, ranged in topics from poetry and fiction to zine-writing, journalism, and technical communication. Our workshop leaders this year were Ms. Jenny Jackson, Dr. Bill Church, Ms. Alyssa Striplin, Ms. Vickey Meyer, Dr. Kaye Adkins, Dr. Janice Cools Stephens, Mr. Meredith Katchen, Ms. Misty Burright, Mr. Daniel Gilden, Ms. Kelly Lock-McMillen, and Dr. James Carviou.
MWSU English majors also assisted with the event by serving as campus guides, assisting the emcee, and supporting student readers at the Open Mic. Volunteers this year were English education majors Al’Eysha Byrd, Tommy Stewart, Toni Cooper, and Aaron Siefers who were joined by Creative Writing and Publishing majors Matthew Ball, Leila Collins, Anne Davies, Rachael Drenckpohl, and Gwen Lock.
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