Since our beginning, HOT has published student writing in order to celebrate individual accomplishments and to share student writing and the contexts in which they were produced with other classrooms, teachers, educators, and policy-makers. HumaniFest Online takes these goals to a new level of access and interchange. Students participating in school day workshops and our new after-school programs will be invited to submit their best writing to the journal. An Editor at UCI will respond to students, giving them concrete advice for revisions. Accepted submissions will be posted to HumaniFest Online, where they will remain "hot" for ninety days. They will then be entered into a permanent archive.

The interactive project is designed to encourage both halves of the phrase computer/literacy: that is, it will promote use of computers and the internet in general, but it will direct that use towards the development of reading and writing skills. In dialogue with UCI mentors both electronically and in person, K-12 writers will learn about editing and proofreading as processes and values. Discussing students' work and walking through a draft with them in preparation for publication invites them to take responsibility for what they produce. It also serves as a teaching moment, when students begin to be able to answer for what they have done, assert their reasons for doing it, and correct any errors they may not have noticed. This moment also allows for positive feedback on young people's writing, acknowledging them as authors of their own work rather than simply as students completing an assigned task. The electronic framework serves to foreground revision as a key moment in the act of writing. Practicing writing in an after school context is aimed to create an interest in writing outside of grades and testing, encouraging a new fluency and joy in writing that can then be carried back into students' schoolwork.