Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers
Welcome to the official TACWT website.
Founded in the mid-seventies, before the expansion of university creative writing programs, TACWT was instrumental in connecting creative writing teachers from across the state of Texas. Today, TACWT members continue this legacy, gathering for annual conferences, sponsoring student writing contests, promoting literary publications, and sharing creative works with one another.
Make plans for our 2013 conference on September 26 - 28 at Texas Christian University.
The Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers (TACWT) is a community of secondary and higher education teachers and professors, workshop facilators, students, and individual writers.
Much of our work focuses on proliferating literary arts in Texas. Notably, our members and guests gather annually for a conference in a Texas city wherein we share scholarly presentations on creative writing pedagogy and enjoy readings by individual members.
We sponsor annual student writing contests and literary magazine/journal contests.
We encourage and support the vibrancy of literary arts, presses, and publishing.
Philip Zwerling
President
pzwerling@utpa.edu
Secretary: Steve Sherwood
Treasurer: Daniel Bartlett
Web master: Brett Bodily
Student Competition Coordinator: Melissa Morphew
Prose Program Coordinator: Jim Sanderson
Poetry Program Coordinator: Lyman Grant
Special Topics Program Coordinator: Steve Sherwood
Annual Individual Memberships $25
Annual Unlimited Institutional Memberships $150
Please send checks payable to TACWT to
Daniel Bartlett
Lamar University
Box 10060
Beaumont, TX 77710