CWP Grad Publishes Novel

November 26, 2007June 8, 2015 / Colorado Writing Project / Leave a comment

Sharon McAnear of Durango recently wrote to CWP to announce the publication of her first novel, Corner of Blue.

Dear Karen,

Thank you, Colorado Writing Project, for lighting a fire under my pen to publish a novel. As of last week, my first novel, Corner of Blue, is on the bookshelf of our local bookstores as well as all the online booksellers’ sites! It is the first in a series of five novels that all began with a short story I wrote in Karen Crawford’s CWP class here in 2001. The first chapter begins with that very story. The CWP pen Karen gave me was the same one that I used to sign the contract with my publisher. No lie.

Thanks again,

Sharon McAnear

Congratulations, Sharon!

CWP Consultant Publishes 2nd Novel

April 16, 2007June 8, 2015 / Colorado Writing Project / Leave a comment

Tim Hillmer’s 2nd novel, Ravenhill. explores school violence through the eyes of multiple characters on a fateful day in a public high school. Reviewer Clay Evans of the Boulder Daily Camera says the book “bravely addresses some tough issues for both kids and adults. Ravenhill is a fast, compelling read that offers a vivid, realistic glimpse into a (white, middle-class) school environment.”

Hillmer works with early career teachers in the Boulder Valley School district in addition to his position as a teacher consultant with the Colorado Writing Project. His first novel, The Hookmen, received the The Colorado Fiction Award and grew out of Tim’s other passion, guiding river rafts.

Both books are available at Amazon.com.

CWP Collaborates in South Africa

June 1, 2006June 10, 2015 / Colorado Writing Project / Leave a comment

In June 2006, CWP Director, Karen Hartman, and consultants Sheila Kaehny and Stevi Quate spent 2 weeks in Dundee, South Africa, at the invitation of the South African Writing Project, working with teachers in the township schools there.

They worked at a high school in the township with about 35 teachers over 10 days. CWP had sponsored two teachers from Dundee the previous summer, Sizwe and Mpume Mchunu, to come to Colorado and participated in the summer CWP I workshop. They each spent an additional two weeks helping two of our consultants teach CWP I, so that they experienced the course both as student and teacher.

The South African North Star Writing Project helped arrange for CWP to come to Dundee in to work directly with a larger group of teachers.