1 / 19

Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center

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

tadhg
Download Presentation

Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center

  2. 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 • 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 …

  3. Who we are! Raennah Lorne Jacquelyn Lazo Elizabeth Derby Kim Bassing Kat Zantow Kirsten Miles

  4. What is our model? • 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….

  5. Our young writers!

  6. What do students want? • Exposure to writers of all genres • An understanding of where they might take their writing, and where their writing might take them • More writing workshops – to dig deep into what they love • To 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 to • An understanding of publishing • To develop confidence in reading their work aloud

  7. What we are doing!

  8. What we want to do!

  9. And this! Much more of this!

  10. We want to meet Aline!National Student PoetFrom Virginia

  11. We want a chance to BE Aline! • 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?

  12. 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

  13. Crossroads – Our Winter Chapbook

  14. Our Vision: • 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 contest • An annual anthology of teen writing

  15. Mission Statement: 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…

  16. Every resource is valuable to us! • 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

  17. You Can: Show them we value writing as an art! • Help us identify people to guide our growing organization • Help us find Funds for programming and publishing • Spread the word to area families and teens • Help 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

  18. Contact Us: To find out more about our program visit our website at: twc.tupelopressva.org To contact us: twc@tupelopress.org Kirsten Miles – Director kmiles@tupelopress.org (434) 960-5193

  19. 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

More Related