Local Authors, Organizations, & Vendors
Spine Indie Bookstore & Cafe is a consignment bookstore stocked exclusively with indie authors and publishers, a small cafe, and a literary event space designed to foster conversations in a safe environment.
Write Outside Your Door is a free writing competition co-sponsored by the Missouri Botanical Garden and Gateway Writing Project that authentically integrates creative writing into the science and English language curriculums.
Write Outside Your Door invites students from grades K - 12 and adults to write about their experiences outside, with nature, and as stewards of the environment.
Write Out (#writeout) is a free two-week celebration of writing, making, and sharing inspired by the great outdoors. It is a public invitation to get out and create that is supported with a series of online activities, made especially for educators, students, and families, to 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.
GWP partners with Gateway Arch to create a unique local experience.
We focus on independent book store best sellers, small presses, timeless fiction and timely non-fiction, as well as anything else that catches our fancy.
We’re woman-owned with a tiny staff of 7. We’re all avid readers and are always excited to make recommendations or talk about what you just read.
The College of Education at the University of Missouri St. Louis, is one of the state of Missouri's larger preparers of educators providing bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees as well as over 50 different state certifications and national licensures for educators.
We proudly offer a breadth of choice, online and face to face classes, and the outstanding quality programming only possible from a public, research institution.
We are proud that our nationally accredited programming is designed and run by award winning research and teaching faculty and highly qualified staff.
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is the academic core of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, a public, metropolitan research university that serves Missouri's most populous and economically and socially diverse region.
The college offers 31 baccalaureate, 16 master, and 7 doctoral degrees as well as numerous minor and certificate options.
The mission of the Missouri Literacy Association is to empower educators, ensure equity, inspire students & encourage leaders with the equitable resources they need to make literacy accessible for all in our diverse community.
The purpose of the Missouri Literacy Association is to improve the quality of reading instruction at all level, to support the efforts and activities of local councils in Missouri, and to coordinate literacy development efforts with other organizations.
Our journal, The Missouri Reader, is a scholarly journal published quarterly as a resource for our members. The articles are written by nationally recognized authors, literacy researchers and instructional leaders as well as by local literacy researchers, veteran classroom teachers, beginning classroom teachers and graduate students.
