The Last Candle

Matt and Alvin wrestle with a piece from the YMCA Oasis Daylight Center. They discuss hope, despair, rebellion, and protest.

Matt shares updates about the new anthology, What No One Ever Tells You, the honor of Underground Writing being spotlighted by the wonderful On Being project on NPR, FilmVerse now underway in its second year, the support of Red Door Thrift Shop, the Washington State Arts Commission, and the upcoming AWP Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Note: We are a creative writing program serving at-risk populations. We do not broadcast names or identifying details of the students we work with.

LINKS OF INTEREST:
What No One Ever Tells You
YMCA Oasis Daylight Center  
Czeslaw Milosz  
On Being
On Being’s debut Community Spotlight, featuring Underground Writing
FilmVerse
Red Door Thrift Shop
AWP Conference 2019  

Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in Northern Washington through literary engagement and personal restoration.

Did You Ever Feel Invisible?

Today’s piece of writing is the Foreword to What No One Ever Tells You, Underground Writing’s first anthology of student writing. Playwright and UW friend, Quiara Alegría Hudes, wrote the piece we’ve titled, “Did You Ever Feel Invisible?”

Matt and Alvin talk about the anthology, give a brief update on UW’s Teaching Writers, and present music by the Marimba Band at LaVenture Middle School, led by Amy McFeely.

Note: We are a creative writing program serving at-risk populations. We do not broadcast names or identifying details of the students we work with.

LINKS OF INTEREST:
What No One Ever Tells You
ArtsWA (Washington State Arts Commission)
Quiara Alegría Hudes
Marimba
LaVenture Middle School
Walt Hampton, Composer  

Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in Northern Washington through literary engagement and personal restoration.