Northwest Writing Institute
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The Northwest Writing Institute is part of the graduate school at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, United States.
[edit] History
The founding director of the institute is Kim Stafford, who is also literary executor of the estate of poet William Stafford. The institute began in 1986 and co-founded the Fishtrap Writers Gathering in 1987. It founded the Oregon Folk Arts Program in 1988 and offered a series of workshops in rural and remote Oregon libraries in the early 1990s. As of 2007, a Writing Culture Summer Seminar and the annual William Stafford Symposium are offered
[edit] Academics
The institute offers a courses for teachers and adult writers, as well as occasional events for undergraduate students on campus, programs for young writers, and community outreach programs.
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