Welcome to Bard IWT

The Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) seeks to enrich learning in all disciplines through collaborative writing practices.

With IWT, teachers can renew themselves intellectually, practice new strategies, and envision classrooms in which writing is a catalyst for learning.

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Current Events

Workshop
New Kinds of Attention: IWT Online Workshops
February 4, 2022
9:00 am – 3:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Online Event

Workshop
New Kinds of Attention: IWT Online Workshops
March 4, 2022
9:00 am – 3:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Online Event

Conference
IWT April Conference
April 29, 2022
9:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Olin Humanities Building

Testimonials

“The prompts and practices employed were truly generative, and this is what brings me to Bard again and again. Losing myself in writing for a day sustains me in a way that nothing else does.”

—Writer as Reader participant, November 2016

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