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We believe reading and writing are transformative acts. Literature has the power to transform the way we see ourselves, the world, and our place in it. Accordingly, our mission is two-fold: to publish work that furthers our cultures' collective vision and to equip writers of all ages and experience levels with the language skills necessary to create literary art from their joy and their jeopardy. In short, Badgerdog was created to publish and to teach. En español . . . |
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- Consider These Voices Celebrated! Badgerdog’s Gala
Did you drive by the Long Center last Thursday and see a bunch of fancy people mingling and laughing in the Kodosky Donor Lounge? Well, that was us! Badgerdog welcomed its largest crowd ever for the fourth annual gala, which raised at least ,000 for our year-round programs. (You can still be a part of [...]
- 2012 Badgerdog Poet Laureate
We are proud to announce that Badgerdog’s 2012 Poet Laureate is fourth grader Amy, from Ms. Rich’s class at Pioneer Crossing Elementary School in Manor ISD. Amy’s poem, “An Egg’s Real Life,” is featured in Badgerdog’s newest anthology of elementary school writing, Rise, which also includes the poems and stories of 250 students from Badgerdog workshops in [...]
- Celebrating Young Austin Writers
We’re just days—twelve days!—away from Badgerdog’s annual Community-Wide Reading, a performance and celebration honoring the students who participated in our school-based workshops this year. Mark your calendars! Saturday, May 12, from 10 a.m. to noon at St. David’s Episcopal Church 301 East 8th Street As in years’ past, some forty student writers from Austin, Manor, [...]
- Inspiration and Illumination: May 3 Gala Silent Auction
Does anyone else remember the light campaign that PBS ran a few years ago—where you watched an idea become illumination that was then passed on to someone else? I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately for many reasons. Here’s a couple: 1) The Light / The Holocaust & Humanity project seemed all about making [...]
- Connecting Austin with Fiction’s Most Innovative Writers
On Saturday, April 21, the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation hosted the third annual New Fiction Confab, a writing conference created to expose Austin readers and writers to the most innovative, up-to-date trends in fiction. Badgerdog partnered with the foundation to host Ben Marcus’ packed workshop/craft talk for older writers. As many of our Silver [...]
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