National Gallery of Writing opens online today
URBANA – Nearly 10,000 pieces of writing have been submitted to the online National Gallery of Writing, which will open at 11:01 a.m. today.
Online viewers may search the submissions by title; gallery; topic; author; author's city, state, country and age; purpose of the composition; technology used to create it; format, and audience for the piece.
From 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. today, the celebration moves to the National Day on Writing Webcast, featuring walk-throughs of galleries, discussions of writing today, video from local National Day on Writing celebrations, and the opportunity for participants to chat about writing and the National Day events.
The Urbana-based National Council of Teachers of English along with more than a dozen national partners started the National Day on Writing. The council will host a National Day on Writing event from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight at the Urbana Free Library. The public is invited.
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