NWP Writers Council

Writing transforms us: unites us with other cultures, demystifies the differences between us, and connects us to the world's collective knowledge in new and exciting ways.

The NWP Writers Council is comprised of writers from all genres—adult and young adult fiction, nonfiction, poetry, theater, music, TV, and more—who support the mission and vision of the National Writing Project, and want to bring greater attention to the importance of writing and the work of NWP. Writers Council members share NWP's belief that writing is vital to thinking, creating, communicating, and participating in the world.

Learn more about joining the Writers Council.

Chris Abani		Cyrus Armajani		Jimmy Santiago Baca		Samer Badawi
Elisabeth Tova Bailey	Photo: Amy Wilton	Mac Barnett		Ysaye Barnwell		Annie Barrows
Chris Barton		Joel ben Izzy		Richard Blanco	Photo: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders	Howard Blumenthal
Jennifer Bradbury		Martha Brockenbrough		Alan Brody		Jen Bryant
Kiera Butler		May-lee Chai	Photo: Jeni Fong	Sandra Cisneros	Photo: Alan Goldfarb	Janie Chodosh
Shelby Coffey		Kim Culbertson		Joan Scott Curtis		Dennis Danziger
Madeleine Dunphy		Jim Dwyer	Photo: Fred R. Conrad	Virginia B. Edwards		Linda Fairstein	Photo: Peter Simon
Grant Faulkner		Alice Faye Duncan		Audrey Fielding		Lyn Ford
Amy Friedman		Rita Gardner		Gabrielle Glancy	Photo: Meg Allen	Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Alison Gopnik	Photo: Rod Searcey	Benjamin Gorman		Tim Green		Karen Gross
Stephanie Guerra		Richard Haass		Joy Harjo	Photo: Karen Kuehn	Robie Harris
Laraine Herring		Sebastian Junger	Photo: Tim Hetherington	Rachel Kadish	Photo: Kevin Day	Irene Kelly
Stephanie Kuehn		Zev Levinson		Yiyun Li	Photo: Roger Turesson	Annie Liontas
Lynn Lovegreen		Benjamin Ludwig		George Ella Lyon		Heather Mackey	Photo: Toby Burditt
Kekla Magoon		Lauren Markham		John A. McCaffrey		Andy McPhee
Shirley McPhillips		Meg Medina		Nancy Méndez-Booth		Dinaw Mengestu
Casey Miner		Kyoko Mori	Photo: Richard Mallory Allnutt	Marissa Moss		Nayomi Munaweera
Frank Murphy		Andy Myer		Robin Newman		Viet Thanh Nguyen
Caragh O'Brien		Corey Edward Olds		Caroline Paul		Ashley Pérez
Jodi Picoult		Steven Pinker	Photo: Rose Lincoln, Harvard University	Elise Primavera		Warren Read
Paul Reynolds		Peter H. Reynolds	Photo: Gretje Ferguson	José Rivera		Kristina Rizga	Photo: Winni Wintermeyer
Emily Robbins	Photo: Brian McConkey	Howard A. Rodman		Jeffrey Rosen		Laura Purdie Salas
Rebecca Schuman		Ben Sherwood	Photo: Ida Mae Astute	Daniel Silva		Tracy K. Smith	Photo: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Asali Solomon	Photo: Patrick Hinely WorkPlay	K-Fai Steele		Catherine Stier		Gail Tsukiyama
Renée Watson		Melanie Wells		Ruth Whippman		Cheryl Wills
Monica Wood		Charles Yu	Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC by SA 3.0	Kelvin Yu		Kip Zegers