T162.
Jumping the Moat: Academic & Community-Based Collaborations
Thursday, March 24, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
What are the challenges and pleasures of building coalitions between community-based writing centers and academic writing programs that share a geography? Join admins from Austin Bat Cave, Chippewa Valley Writers Guild, Literary Cleveland, Lit Youngstown, and The Porch as they explore partnerships, internships, mentorships, and other big and small “ships” with moat-crossing abilities between the proverbial “town” and “gown.”
Participants
Cassandra Lawton is an outreach coordinator for Lit Youngstown and a student in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts program. She received her master of social work from Michigan State University. Cassandra has been published in Entropy and Bridge Literary Journal.
Katie McDougall is the cofounder, codirector, and a regular instructor for The Porch, a Nashville literary arts nonprofit. As codirector, she helps oversee strategic partnerships and spearheads community outreach opportunities.
B.J. Hollars is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, the director of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild, and the author of several works, most recently Go West Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail.
Matt Weinkam’s work has appeared in TINGE Magazine, Monkeybicycle, and The Rumpus, and he is an editor for Threadcount, an online journal of hybrid prose. He is currently in the MFA program at Northern Michigan University in Marquette.
Philip Memmer
