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Day of the Writer
Join novelists, teachers, and students for our annual Day of the Writer event with the San José Area Writing Project and author in residence Hannah Jayne. We’ll blend individual writing time with prompts, brainstorms, food, and open mic activities to build community while we raise our voice and share our stories. Whether your inclination leans toward fiction or personal essays or writing for social justice, consider carving out a few hours to write and connect.
Asilomar 72 -- Knowledge Across Communities -- Language Arts, Teaching, and Organizing in a Time of Transformation
Running October 2-4, 2026. SJAWP teachers will lead session #13: Being Peace -- Cultivating Healing, Love, and Hope through Multigenre Writing. Participating teachers are eligible to purchase units through SJSU and the SJAWP.
From Weeds to Beads: Repurposing Harmful Messages into Poems of Beauty and Power
In this workshop, participants will explore a form of blackout poetry that transforms divisive, dehumanizing, or violent messages into expressions of beauty, empowerment, and hope. As the name implies, blackout poetry "blacks out," or redacts, select words from a text and preserves others to form an original poem. We will examine exemplars, including from students, constructed from literary and political texts that blend empowering messages with humanizing imagery. Participants will then have an opportunity to create their own blackout poem and share ideas for how they might teach this genre in their own contexts. Open to educators of all grade levels.