tupelo press teen writing center
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Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center. The Beginning. Jeffrey Levine, founder, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Tupelo Press, suggested that we look for a way to support young writers in the community Local youth noted that there were not many locations that welcomed young teens - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center
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Jeffrey Levine, founder, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Tupelo Press, suggested that we look for a way to support young writers in the community
Local youth noted that there were not many locations that welcomed young teens
Raennah Lorne introduced the idea of a teen writing center, and connected us with Elizabeth Derby, and Jacquelyn Lazo. More young women writers jumped on board, and …
The Beginning
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Who we are!
Elizabeth Derby
Kim BassingKirsten Miles
Jacquelyn Lazo
Kat Zantow
Raennah Lorne
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In working with the Tupelo Press 30/30 project, month after month poets expressed the same thing, they felt validated after writing with their peers for a month…
We looked at the wonderful 826 Valencia Project and many other inspiring programs.
Ultimately we found that none satisfied the broad reach we sought.
We decided to ask our most important stakeholders what they wanted….
What is our model?
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Our young writers!
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Exposure to writers of all genresAn understanding of where they might take their
writing, and where their writing might take themMore writing workshops – to dig deep into what
they loveTo write with their peers, within a community –To know that this art they love has worth – is worth
supporting like any other art writing contests to aspire toAn understanding of publishingTo develop confidence in reading their work aloud
What do students want?
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What we are doing!
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What we want to do!
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And this! Much more of this!
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We want to meet Aline!National Student PoetFrom Virginia
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Since 1923, teens like Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, and Myla Goldberg earned their first accolades from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Who’s next?
They are celebrating 90 years of creativity!Do we want to be a Regional Affiliate, or start our
own, local contest?
We want a chance to BE Aline!
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What we need in the short run: Funds to seed :
Our winter chapbook for member teens
Travel funds for the National Student Poet
Stipends for talented instructors for 2014
A spring anthology for all area teens
A local advisory board to help us identify : to guide and help us make good
decisions provide the best incubator for
young writers that we can To identify funds to keep program
quality high
$1,000 $400 Letterpress covers, perfect binding!
$500- $8,500 $9,600 $15,000 - We want to keep
printing local, and are working on discounts – we want there to be no barrier for a child to participate.
We foresee the anthology being a fundraiser which will partially pay for the next year’s anthology, and by the third year pay for itself and hopefully some programming
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Crossroads – Our Winter Chapbook
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A central location that young writers can call their own
High quality workshops youth can register for, modeled after The Lighthouse, that take our teens from generating new work through the publication process
A teen reading series that spreads across town and builds confidence.
A local senior portfolio contestAn annual anthology of teen writing
Our Vision:
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To foster, discover, and develop emerging writers, and connect them as a part of the larger writing community, facilitate their ability to take advantage of our local literary resources, and develop resources where they are needed. To announce to and through support of our youth that writing is as important as sports fields, theaters, art galleries and centers, and skating rinks…
Mission Statement:
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We have produced wonderful programming at low costs through volunteer efforts exclusively, for a very small, charter group of students
We want to reach all teens in all circumstances without barriers
In order to do that we need more than a volunteer effort to provide consistent and dependable, quality workshops
Every resource is valuable to us!
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Help us identify people to guide our growing organization
Help us find Funds for programming and publishing
Spread the word to area families and teensHelp us eventually identify space as we work
with the Writerhouse to evaluate a best fit for a permanent location for our teens to make their own
You Can: Show them we value writing as an art!
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To find out more about our program visit our website at: twc.tupelopressva.org
To contact us: [email protected]
Kirsten Miles – [email protected](434) 960-5193
Contact Us:
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Grateful thanks for our supporters The Virginia Foundation for the
Humanities The Writerhouse The Virginia Arts of the Book
Center The Piedmont Council for the Arts The Virginia Festival of the Book Ashlawn Highlands
Mona Lisa Pasta Gearhardts Albemarle Baking Company Breadworks The Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar Whole Foods Market Street Winery