Best Text Contest
The Writing Program's Best Text Contest recognizes and celebrates outstanding student writing. Winning entries are compiled in the Best Text Collection.
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Celebrating Over 40 Years
Since 1982, The UMass Amherst Writing Program has worked to empower student writers to examine the intersections of writing, language, and power and learn the rhetorical flexibility needed for their academic, professional, public, and personal lives.
Our timeline shares images and events that give life to our program’s history.