FEATURING

	Poetry reading by Vanessa Y. Niu, New York State Youth Poet Laureate
	Remarks by Tonya Pendleton, award-winning journalist, cultural commentator, and multimedia host
	Award presentation to Steve Schrader, presented by Wesley Brown, author

HONORING

Steve Schrader

Steven Schrader was born in New York in 1935. He has been a dress salesman, a social worker, and a junior high and high school teacher. For ten years he was director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative, and he remains a member of its Board of Directors. He was the publisher of Cane Hill Press, which specialized in fiction. His work has been included in several anthologies and broadcast on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. His latest book, The Other Steve Schrader, New and Selected Writing, is forthcoming from Hanging Loose Press. He lives on New York’s Upper West Side, a strong presence in his stories, with his wife, Lucy Kostelanetz, a documentary filmmaker.

Committee to Honor Steve Schrader

(In formation)

THANK YOU!!!

Silent Auction

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Sponsorships

All proceeds further the heart of our mission: to increase access to the arts through transformative writing programs. Our programs and publications inspire innovation in the classroom and create greater equity in and through the arts.

For Sponsorship package details, click "Sponsor Our Event" in the right sidebar. Sponsorship packages include various recognition and visibility benefits, including:

Press: sponsorship recognition in press releases and event email communications

Digital: Promotion on T&W’s social media and website. Logos and electronic slide tribute ads will be projected during the event.

Print: Spotlight on printed event program

Networking: Support will be publicly acknowledged to event attendees, including corporate executives, teachers, writers, philanthropists, and policymakers.

Exclusive for Publishers: Sponsor can commit in-kind book donations, evaluated at fair market value. Please contact us to discuss.

Sponsors may choose to have their tickets allocated as complimentary for teaching artists, allowing us to honor our cherished community members with a memorable evening while acknowledging their dedication and tireless efforts. Teachers & Writers Collaborative is a 501c3 nonprofit organization, and contributions are deductible to the extent allowed by law (TIN 13-2693372).

About Teachers & Writers Collaborative

Teachers & Writers Collaborative is one of the first writers-in-the-schools programs, with a 50+ year history of delivering innovative creative writing programs that increase access to the arts, build community, and amplify youth voices. Founded in 1967 by a group of writers and educators who believed that professional writers could make a unique contribution to the teaching of writing and literature. Those responsible for shaping T&W’s program and philosophy in the organization’s early years included June Jordan, Rosellen Brown, Victor Hernández Cruz, Kenneth Koch, Herbert Kohl, Phillip Lopate, Grace Paley, Muriel Rukeyser, and Anne Sexton, among others.

T&W programs include: writing workshops for youth, art workshops for seniors, and training for teachers. In addition, T&W hosts the NY Poetry Out Loud recitation competition and the NY Youth Poet Laureate program for teens in New York State. To support the teaching of creative writing, we publish Teachers & Writers Magazine and an assortment of books for educators. Learn more about our programs at twc.org.

Since its founding, T&W has published more than 80 books about teaching writing. T&W writers have brought writing residencies and professional development workshops to hundreds of thousands of students and tens of thousands of teachers in New York City schools. This depth of experience led the National Endowment for the Arts to call T&W the arts education group that is “most familiar with creative writing/literature in primary and secondary schools.”

Youth Programs

Creative Aging Programs

New York State Poetry Out Loud & Youth Poet Laureate Programs