Dear Tucson High Writing Center,
Tucson Writes Night 2011 was an amazing experience! It was so exciting to see student writing and visual media projects presented in such a warm and supportive environment. University faculty and administration as well as teachers and students from Tucson High were in attendance. It was great to see moms, dads, brothers, sisters and community members come out to show their support of young writers, too.
To all the young writers presenting their work at Tucson Writes Night 2011, you rock! Thank you for having the courage to stand up in front of a public audience and share your work. You have beautiful and intelligent voices. Thank you for writing. Keep writing.
Best,
Event Programs, Tucson Writes Night 2011
Our host for the night, Lexie Whitehead, a Tucson High Writing Center Peer Mentor
Special guest speaker, Cruz Media, PhD Candidate, RCTE, author of the blog, Academia de Cruz
Special guest speaker, Kirsten Boele, MA Journalism, director of Fatuma, an documentary film project about being a Sudanese refugee in Tucson.
Keynote speaker, Daniel Hernandez, Gabrielle Gifford’s Intern and Public Speaker
Young Writer, Ochana Otto, Reading his poem, “City of Tucson”
Young Writer, Gloria Bergen, reading her essay on Native American education
Young Writer and Filmmaker, Cassidy Johnson, showing a “video poem” from her collection on youtube. To check out the poem, see link below.
Cassidy’s video poem, “Heat”
Tucson High Writing Center
Tucson High Writing Center 
Hi Tucson High Writing Center Mentors, I really enjoyed speaking at Tucson Writes Night because it gave me the great opportunity to hear a lot of great writing. Is there any chance any of the writing from Tucson Writes Night will be posted to this blog? Keep up the great work!
-Cruz Medina