High School writing center staffs from across Maine gathered to share ideas and discuss common issues. Sponsored by the Maine Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project, the conference began with two poster sessions. Both established writing centers and those students and teachers who were either in the process of creating a center or were thinking about it, displayed posters and shared their ideas. The subjects of the posters ranged from informative and inspiring books to the challenges of being an effective writing center student editor, coach, or tutor. Student and teacher representatives from the ten high schools spoke articulately about their work.
The second session of the day featured three workshops. The workshops were presented by the Nokomis Writing Center, Erskine Academy's Absolutely Write! and former high school writing center tutors.
Each participant received an MWP t-shirt, a folder, pen, "Yeah, write" stickers, stickie notes, and a selection of journal ideas.
