The Creative Writing in the Community is a course at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. An immersive, service learning opportunity, English 409 students meet with young writers in the greater Muncie community to teach creative writing techniques and to write and compose a collaborative text. Our young community partners are 3^rd and 4^th graders, at Longfellow Elementary School.

This semester, university students also engaged in the book publishing process, learning design, layout, and editing with our independent, 409 Press, which is committed to...