Workshops presented by OWP Teacher Consultants will provide pre-writing and drafting activities for various genres including poetry, essays, personal narratives, descriptions, flash fiction, short stories, and super sentences. Students attending the conference may select two grade-level appropriate sessions, and they will leave with a rough draft of a piece to enter into the 2026 Write-to-Win Writing Contest.

Teachers, you may bring up to five students. Conference is limited to 100 participants.

Target Audience: Grades 6th-12th

Schedule

9:15-9:30 Registration/Refreshments

9:30-9:45. Orientation/Quickwrite

10:00-11:45 Poetry Reading: George Bilgere

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-11:45 Breakout Sessions

11:45-12:00 Break

12:00-12:45 Joint Session--Jason Stephenson

12:45 Conference Concludes; Schools will lunch on their own

Registration Information

The ratio of students to teacher/adult must be no greater than 5:1. (Parents and student teachers are welcome! If you want to bring more than 5 students, just bring more adults. Example: 15 students would warrant 3 adults. ) POs are accepted.

Registration Fee (All Participants): $10/each