Northwestern State University Writing Project

NSUWP is committed to supporting innovative venues for recognition and publication of student writing. NSUWP, along with other Louisiana Writing Project sites, sponsors the La Writes! Contest for all Louisiana students.  Students whose writings are selected are recognized at the annual Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge and NSUWP sends a team of teacher-consultants each year to support the contest awards ceremony and to work in the Children’s Writing Tent. 

NSUWP also hosts an annual Teacher-Student Writing Marathon open each spring to all teachers who wish to come write with their students in downtown historic Natchitoches and its Cane River. The 2010 Writing Marathon included students and teachers from Natchitoches, Sabine, DeSoto, and Red River Parishes.  

Additionally, NSUWP sponsors a Children’s Writing Camp each summer.  Participating students are encouraged to take part in activities that give them the opportunity to read and write for pleasure.  Field studies are included where students learn to keep an active writing journal which they use for more developed writings when they return to the camp.