Honoring Our River

Honoring Our River is celebrating its tenth year in publication, and we need your help making this year's anthology truly special! The deadline for submissions is fast approaching - February 28th, 2010. Do you have your free toolkit?

Any student, age kindergarten through college, is eligible to submit their work. Selected entries will be published in our student Anthology alongside esteemed invited Oregon writers. The authors of published pieces will receive a free copy of the anthology and a chance to be featured in upcoming events! Submissions should focus on the relationship between people and the Willamette Watershed - the waters, weather, land, plants, animals and habitats that make up this beautiful and fragile river system.

There is also a special section of the anthology entitled A River Has Many Voices that is exclusively for entries submitted in foreign languages. In past anthologies, entries in Chinese and Japanese were submitted. For the coming year, we wish to expand this section by encouraging submissions from all languages spoken in the Willamette Watershed. Translations must be provided.

Please consider incorporating Honoring Our River: A Student Anthology into your curriculum. You can spend as little as part of one class period, or devote a week-long project to it! It can help students meet Oregon's Educational Standards for the language arts and science - contact Kim Carson at The Freshwater Trust (contact information included in the toolkit) for more information on meeting curriculum requirements.