National Council Names Tri–Cities Professor To Head Statewide Writing Program

TRI-CITIES, Wash. — The National Council of Teachers of English has named WSU Tri-Cities Professor Deanna Gilmore to serve as statewide coordinator of their Promising Young Writers Program for 2006.

Gilmore, who teaches children’s literacy in WSU’s College of Education, will run Washington state’s portion of the nationwide program, now in its 25th year. Promising Young Writers is for eighth grade students, who are selected by their schools to participate.

Students can enter in either the “Best Writing Sample” or “Impromptu Writing” portions of the competition. Teams of teachers in each state judge the submissions.