What is the National Day on Writing?

On October 20, 2009, organizations (including universities and schools) across the country will celebrate the National Day on Writing. Sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English (and co-sponsored by a number of organizations), this day is intended to draw attention to the remarkable variety of writing all of us engage in and designed to help make us, as writers from all walks of life, aware of our craft.

In preparation for this day, NCTE is working with partner organizations to create a virtual gallery of writing. The National Gallery will be a digital archive of samples that exhibit how and why Americans are writing every day, accessible to all through a free, searchable website.Writers’ pieces will be accompanied by

• brief descriptive entries (meta-data) describing who the writer is,
• the genre of writing represented, and
• why s/he selected this particular piece to submit to the Gallery