The National Gallery of Writing

What is the National Gallery of Writing?

The National Gallery of Writing is an interactive website sponsored by NCTE with the support of national partners, including such diverse groups as the National Science Teachers Association, National Endowment for the Humanities, USA Today, Google, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Check out these galleries by subject, as well as YC Galleries!

“The Gallery accommodates any composition format—from word processing to photography, audio recording to text messages—and all types of writing—from letters to lists, memoirs to memos” —National Gallery website

NOTE: Information relating to the National Gallery of Writing will be updated periodically as both the gallery and YC participation and projects grow.

Local Partnerships

Become a Local Partner?

Local partners can be any group, including a family, a few good friends, a club or church group, a class, a school, a workplace group, or an entire city who wants to see their work collected together inside the National Gallery. Every local partner needs one key person: a Curator who applies for local partner status and agrees to review all work submitted before it is published.

Why Should I Consider Starting a Local Partner Gallery for My Group?

For many good reasons:

• It is a way to help your group think more deeply about how, why, when, and where they write, and share ideas or information that is important to them.
• It can evoke pride, or at least a strong bond, as you see what others post to your Local Gallery.
• It can help you sharpen your own thinking about writing and improve as a writer.
• It can broaden your awareness of the perceptions and talents of others—discoveries that are often hidden in everyday writing.

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The Role of a Gallery Curator

The Curator is essentially the filter for the Gallery. While all Gallery Curators will be encouraged to be broad-minded and inclusive, they retain the authority to allow pieces to appear in a gallery or not (note: some writing not chosen from a Local Partner or National Partner Gallery will be referred to NCTE for possible inclusion in the Gallery of the National Council of Teachers of English).

Curators will have access to online tools that allow them to "feature" a select number of pieces within their Gallery for a period of time. If a Local Partner Curator anticipates a heavy review load, she or he can recruit assistants who will also have access to review tools.

Curators will be responsible for completing a review and triggering a review response email within one month of receipt of each submission. Since Curators will gain access to reviewing tools in mid-July, writers who submit this spring and early summer can expect a publication decision from a Curator by mid-August.

Guidelines for Curators

All writing approved for publication in Local and Partner Galleries should be consistent with the intent and theme of the Gallery.

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Instructions and Guidelines for Writers

You are eligible to submit one composition (or a link to a composition already posted on the Internet) to the National Gallery. The writing will be reviewed to ensure that it meets the guidelines of the Gallery Host, and either posted to the Gallery of your choosing or referred to the Gallery of the National Council of Teachers of English.

When you click the "contribute my writing now" you will be prompted for information about the piece you are submitting and about yourself. You have the option to share this information with readers through the site search engine, or to keep it sheltered from searches. Once you have provided the necessary information and permission to publish, you will have the opportunity to choose the destination Gallery where your work will appear.

When your work reaches its destination Gallery, you will receive an email indicating that it has arrived and is being reviewed. Upon completion of the review you will be notified regarding its status within 30 business days. As a contributor to the National Gallery of Writing you will retain copyright of your writing contribution.

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Prohibition of Unlawful or Harmful Content

While all writers should be able to express themselves and their point of view, certain kinds of writing simply do not belong in the National Gallery of Writing. Therefore, you may not post or link to writing that:

1. is obscene, pornographic, or sexually explicit
2. depicts graphic or gratuitous violence
3. makes threats of any kind or that intimidates, harasses, or bullies anyone
4. is derogatory, demeaning, malicious, defamatory, abusive, or hateful

Although as the host of the National Gallery, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is not responsible for the conduct of writers who post here, we want the National Gallery to be a safe and educative site on the Internet. Therefore, in posting to the Gallery, you may not:

1. violate any local, state, national, or international law or post any writing that would encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense
2. impersonate any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your age, or your affiliation with any person or entity
3. make available any unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation

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