Community Writing Center: The Last Publication: We have published more than 4000 pages of your creations over the last 24 years. Here is your chance to be published with your community before we shut our doors for good. Give us what you got.  Looking for all types of human artifacts that can be put into print: words, pictures, and other forms of communicating symbols are accepted.  ( Max Word Count: 2500 )
 

NOTE: If you are a member of one or more of the CWC's Community Writing Series groups, you are strongly encouraged to submit a piece or pieces you've been working on with your writing groups.
 

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 11:59 p.m. on January 1, 2026

Check out the 2025 edition below for some inspiration! 

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If you have any questions or comments please contact, elisar.soueidi@slcc.edu

You are invited to participate in a collective publication about the CWC: Everyone Can Write: Remembering the SLCC Community Writing Center.

We invite memories, letters, documents, fiction, poetry, commentary, images, (images of) paraphernalia, or anything else that are inspired by the question:  

What should be remembered about the SLCC Community Writing Center? 

Submission Deadline: February 22, 2026.  Anticipated publication date: May 2026 to correspond with celebratory farewell to the CWC. 

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The SLCC Community Writing Center opened on October 22, 2001 in the Artspace Bridge Projects just west of downtown Salt Lake City, merging two idealistic notions: “everyone can write” and “education is for everyone.” Since then, the Community Writing Center has become a fixture in the Salt Lake valley and a model for other higher education-community partnerships across the nation.  

• Provided more than 10,000 writing coaching sessions to community members.  
• Offered more than 625 workshops to more than 5000 people across the Salt Lake valley.
• Published 28 volumes (4000+ pages) of community anthologies of writing from three dozen writing groups and countless community members. 
• Published 15 volumes (1000+ pages) of youth writing and facilitated more than 60 workshops for young writers.   
• Partnered with hundreds of local non-profit, educational, and government organizations to provide writing and learning opportunities for all Salt Lake community members.    

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Submission Criteria

• Multiple submissions are permitted.  
• Each submitter will have at least one submission included in the publication, presuming the subject matter responds to the invitation.
• Written submissions should not exceed 1000 words. Revisions for length may be requested.  
• Images should be .png or .jpg (300dpi), or PDF files. 
• If preferred, you may request that your contribution be anonymous, but should include your relationship with the CWC (e.g., staff, volunteer, advisory committee member, partner, intern, writer, etc.)  

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Questions?

Please submit questions to cwc@slcc.edu.