GWP Fall & Winter Program Offerings
Get Connected with the GWP Community!
Join a Book Study Group & Pick up your FREE Copy at Dinner & Demo!
Join us for our professional learning mini-conference, Dinner & Demo! The event is held on UMSL campus on Thursday, September 24th 2026 from 4 - 7 PM and includes presentations from participants of GWP programming. Enjoy dinner while you hear from book study groups, writers, and local educators. Learn about GWP programming and leave with ideas and strategies for the classroom.
The Teaching Life
Writer to Writer
44 Poems on Being with Each Other
Attend the Writing Marathon and/or Retreat November 7th - 8th
Join us at the Pallottine Center in Florissant, MO! Whatever writing project you’re tackling (or dreaming of beginning), you'll have the luxury of time while being surrounded by fellow writers to nudge and inspire you.
Get ready for Write Out, October 11th - 25th
Write Out invites everyone—educators, students, families, and friends—to step outside the walls of classrooms, homes, and workspaces to write and connect. Free and open to all, this celebration inspires writers to draw from the world around them through place-based writing and sharing, deepening connections to place, nature, and community.
Write Out 2026 will take place October 11–25. This year’s theme, Write Where We Stand, centers writing in the places that shape and sustain us.
Submit a Proposal to Present at Write to Learn - Due November 6th
Winter Writers
The group will meet virtually one Sunday a month in the afternoon (Teams or Zoom) to discuss the assigned chapters and applications in the classroom.
Meeting Dates:
Sunday, December 20th
Sunday, January 17th
Sunday, February 7th
Facilitated by GWP Teacher Consultant Katelyn Delvaux, MFA (she/her)
Assistant Professor, English
GWP provides the first ten sign ups with a free copy of the text and a journal.
WriteOn! Workshop - Critical AI Literacy on Thursday, December 10th, 2026
Date: Thursday, December 10th, 2026 from 9AM - 3PM
Location: University of Missouri-St. Louis, EdCollabitat
*Coffee Bar & Lunch Included in Cost of Workshop
Educators wrestle with a lot of issues when they consider how to help students grow as writers in the age of generative AI. Foundationally, the Gateway Writing Project believes that if we help our students develop a writing identity and engage them in authentic tasks, then students will be less likely to offload their work onto AI. As more people are using AI in daily life, we believe it is important that students develop a critical understanding of generative AI. How it works. It’s limitations. Its unintended consequences. In this workshop, participants will experience ready-to-use lessons that will help students develop critical AI literacy skills, skills that will help them grow as writers in the Age of AI.
Join us on Friday, January 15th for Writers @ Play(ce)
Play(ce) has an ongoing and lasting impact on the human experience, including how you see the world. We hope thes experiences will inspire you to write something new and share it with our writing community. Join us for a bi-annual GWP social event where we come together to converse, write, and explore a local place!
Our winter gathering takes place on Friday, January 15th from 5 - 7 PM. Join us at the St. Louis Art Museum at 1 Fine Arts Dr, St. Louis, MO 63110 for Free Fridays programing and a chance to explore with friends.
Writing is our middle name...
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