West Michigan competition for young writers inspired by ArtPrize

A writing competition for elementary school-aged students draws its inspiration, and subject matter, from Grand Rapids' ArtPrize art competition.

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While they may be too young to vote, West Michigan students in grades 2-8 can express their thoughts about ArtPrize during a unique writing competition known as WritePrize. Grand Valley State University is sponsoring the writing competition through its Lake Michigan Writing Project, a program that provides West Michigan teachers with professional development programs and writing workshops as an affiliate of the National Writing Project.

Several Laker Writing Camps for young students are also held each year. The WritePrize 2009 event invites teachers to get their students writing about their community using the International ArtPrize competition as their topic in one of two categories. Students may write a persuasive piece promoting a favorite ArtPrize exhibit, or write a creative piece inspired about one of the ArtPrize finalists.

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