Site List
Elementary and High School Students
Frank Sinatra School of the Arts
Planting Stories
Community Organizations
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Columbia University Students
Columbia Irving Medical Center–Practitioners and Patients
Writing at the Wallach Gallery
Drop-In Writing and Community Room in the School of the Arts
Incarcerated Population
CA/T Teachers conduct year-long courses/workshops with writers at the Fortune Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting community reentry after incarceration.
Fortune Society One on One Writing Advisors
CA/T Teachers meet individually with writers at the Fortune Society (a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting community reentry after incarceration) on a weekly basis to support in their revision and completion of long form projects.
Workshop for Formerly Incarcerated Writers At Columbia
CA/T Teachers offer a weekly writing workshop to formerly incarcerated writers on Columbia's campus/
Writing Coaches with Minutes Before Six
CA/T Teachers are matched by genre with an incarcerated writer, many of whom are serving life sentences or are on death row, and act as a writing coach offering them notes for revision via three letters exchanged over the course of a semester. This is offered through the organization Minutes Before Six, a journal that publishes the work of incarcerated writers.
Rikers Writing Classes with Justice in Education
Beginning in January 2026 CA/T teachers will conduct writing workshops at Rikers Island along with the Columbia Justice in Education program.
Exchange (Editorial, Reading, and Correspondence Boards)
The Exchange journal is an annual publication compiled by the Incarcerated Writers Initiative that features the writing and visual art of incarcerated writers and artists. The Editorial Board is a team of editors (one in each genre concentration) that meets in the spring semester and makes final publication decisions for the journal. Reading Board members work in the spring and fall semesters. Each member is responsible for reading submissions received by the journal and writing feedback letters to each writer who submits. Correspondence Board members help with intake of Exchange submissions and organize and file all incoming work from incarcerated writers across the country.