Diary
My name is Liam Cloud Hogan. I am a senior at Charlottesville High School, and will attend Pratt Institute for writing this fall. This summer I will attend my fourth year at the UVA Young Writer’s Workshop, in fiction writing. This story is part of a collection of many stories that explore how we record history. […]
What is in a contest?
The Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center was thrilled at the number and quality of this year’s student submissions. Over the year our founding member Jacquelyn Lazo shared the project with friends. Upon hearing about our anthology, seeing last year’s edition, Tim Green, editor at Rattle, a national poetry magazine, offered to judge our contest. Given […]
How to build a book:
How does your anthology grow? We’ll take some time this month to introduce you to the volunteers behind the Crossroads III anthology, you may see familiar faces! Our students are involved in the ordering of work in our anthology, starting with workshops and discussions led by Jacquelyn Lazo of the Darden School. Students met weekly with […]
And the air filled with words
We peered through 100 lenses. Tonight 300 people filled the Omni Ballrooms to listen to the poetry and prose of 100 students. We listened. What greater gift could we give them than to look at the world through their eyes. You can too. Order a copy of the Crossroads III anthology and read it for yourself, a […]
Tonight’s the Night at the Virginia Festival of the Book!
The Virginia Festival of the Book Prose and Poetry Middle and High school Reading! Students from middle and high schools around the county will appear as authors tonight and read their work at the Omni tonight, from 7-9pm, to kick off the Virginia Festival of the Book! Thirtytwo high school students were selected to […]
Crossroads III is going to print. Pre-orders are available!
The Crossroads III Teen Anthology is available for pre-order. Because our covers are hand printed, our anthology is a limited edition. Each contributing student receives a complimentary copy, and the rest we sell to offset the cost of printing. We are thrilled to welcome Max March as our editorial designer and hope you enjoy our […]