The Martha Spoor Young Writers Fund was established in 2008 with the Alamo Heights School Foundation in honor of Martha Spoor, a lifelong resident of San Antonio, a 1987 graduate of Alamo Heights High School, and an English teacher at the Alamo Heights Junior School. Martha’s greatest passion was teaching. For almost 14 years, she fulfilled her dream as an English teacher at Alamo Heights Junior School.


Martha Spoor in 1994 at Trinity University where she earned her master's degree.

The Martha Spoor Young Writers fund is used to enhance the writing program at AHJS through a special summer writing workshop. The first workshop was held in July 2010.

The Martha Spoor Young Writers Workshop is a multi-genre creative writing workshop where students explore poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Junior School students currently in the sixth or seventh grade are invited to apply. 

For more information about the Alamo Heights School Foundation or The Martha Spoor Young Writers Fund, please call the Foundation office at 210-832-5957 or visit their website. 

For questions about the Martha Spoor Young Writers Workshop, call 210-824-2483 and ask for the office of the Assistant Superintendent for Administrative Services or email Dr. Frank Alfaro.