Write Out

Every year, the National Writing Project, in partnership with the National Park Service, conducts a Write Out: a free two-week celebration of writing, making, and sharing inspired by the great outdoors. It is an opportunity for the public to get out, create, and explore national parks and other public spaces. The goal is to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing using the common hashtag #writeout. Gateway Arch National Park, working with the University of St. Louis' Gateway Writing Project, will be a proud participant in this year's Write Out!

 

STEAM-Powered

This year’s Write Out is STEAM- Powered (STEAM = Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) and will run October 9-23, 2022. Here in St. Louis, we will focus on the E in STEAM and think about the great engineering around our city: specifically the Gateway Arch, Eads Bridge, and the Old Courthouse. Write Out will be organized around the use of notebooks and journals that inspire observing, describing, and annotating...just like STEAM professionals do!

 

Duration:

3 minutes, 45 seconds

Ranger Matt introduces some architectural marvels in the city of St. Louis, and invites you to join this year's #WriteOut "The Write Engineer" writing contest. Writers may submit stories, essays, or poems that creatively address the theme 'My St. Louis', writing about a special place in St. Louis and why its design is meaningful, or a special place in St. Louis that they would like to design and build. Prizes in five age categories will be awarded.

How to enter the Write Engineer contest

 

Get Involved

The public is invited to join in the following activities sponsored by the Gateway Writing Project for Write Out 2022:

• “The Write Engineer” Writing Contest – Open October 9th – 23rd

• Writing Marathon on Gateway Arch grounds – October 17th from 4-6pm
  

For more information, e-mail us or call Matt Easley at 314-655-1615.