Words Without Borders Campus

Join Us on 2/26 for a Caribbean Unit Launch Party!

Posted on February 06, 2025

Orange graphic with headshots of nine authors and translators. Text: Launch Party for Caribbean Writers with WWB Campus. Featuring Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Frank Baez, Emiliana Bernard-Stephenson, Jean D'Amérique, Nathan H. Dize, Anabel Enriquez Pineiro, Hillary Gulley, Hoyt Rogers, and Lawrence Schimel. Wednesday, February 26, 6pm ET (UTC-5). Virtual event via Zoom. Registration required: wwborders.live/2025CampusLaunch

Words Without Borders Campus is proud to present its new Caribbean unit to the public! Join us for a launch event with nine of the unit’s authors and translators. Featuring Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Frank Báez, Emiliana Bernard-Stephenson, Jean D'Amérique, Nathan H. Dize, Anabel Enríquez Piñeiro, Hillary Gulley, Hoyt Rogers, and Lawrence Schimel. We’re excited to host you for a celebratory evening of poetry and prose from across the Caribbean!

Last Chance: Apply for Our Storytelling Mini-Course with the Academy for Teachers!

Posted on February 03, 2025

Beyond "Story Mountain": Global Approaches to Inspire New Writing

Helping Students Deal with Disasters

Posted on January 10, 2025

A globe representing the Earth lies on its side on a grass field.

This weekend marks fifteen years since the destructive 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. In remembrance of the tragedy, we're rereading a reflection from Haitian author Lyonel Trouillot, who survived the quake. The anniversary also coincides with devastating forest fires in the United States and ongoing cleanups from many other recent natural disasters across the world. Reading global literature responding to past disasters may help students living through current ones feel less alone as they process these events. This blog post from 2024 offers some trauma-informed strategies for reading and teaching the literature. —Eds.

Off-Campus: Bringing Diverse Lit to Young Readers with Promised Protagonists

Posted on December 16, 2024

In the second installment of our interview series "Off-Campus," WWB's Maggie Vlietstra spoke to Katie Lin, high school student and founder of the youth-led organization Promised Protagonists, which aims to help kids feel reflected in the literature they read. Katie spoke to us about connecting to heritage through books, underrepresented countries in middle-grade lit, and what she’s reading right now.

10 Stories and Poems for Reading Africa Week

Posted on December 02, 2024

Blue graphic that reads #ReadingAfrica 2024, December 1-7.

During the first week of December, WWB Campus is #ReadingAfrica! Started by indie publisher Catalyst Press in 2017, Reading Africa Week “bring[s] attention to writers who are doing diverse and genre-spanning work from every corner of the African continent.” It’s a great opportunity to introduce students to literature from a part of the world that is often overlooked on classroom curricula. Here are 10 works of literature from Africa that cover a range of countries, languages, and genres to start you on your reading journey: