What is in a Portfolio?
What will a Senior Writing Portfolio do for me? College and job applications for students writers include opportunities to showcase your work. The motive behind a senior portfolio contest is to encourage young writers to organize their work in order to share it with future academic institutions and employers. Scholastic recognizes eight different categories: […]
Calendar – 2014
A Year of Writing Thursday Evening Writing Program 6:30-8pm, Writerhouse The Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center is proud to continue to collaborate with the Writerhouse to hold free weekly meetings for teen writers, offering writing exercises, workshops, and revision, as well as opportunities to meet local authors. All meetings are led by excellent local […]
A new year, a new book!
“We come to together as strangers, from different schools and different lives, and sit and talk and write and bond. We form a community, and then scatter to our separate lives again, renewed in our passion for writing.” So emerged the title for our winter chapbook, Crossroads. We have some major thanks to give. First, […]
Crossroads
“We come as strangers to this room, from different schools all over the county.” “We become a community in here, each night that we meet, and then we depart in all different directions”. Thus our teens began talking about their feelings about the Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center, trying to wrestle a name for […]
Tupelo Press Writing Workshop, Chapbook, and an invitation!
We have had some wonderful writing workshops, including last Thursday’s meeting led by John Worzbyt. John doesn’t disappoint, and it was tremendous fun for all involved. Ask anyone just how to get a reader interested in your work! Readers beware, John has irresistible strategies! [slideshow_deploy id=’327′] Don’t forget to send in your work for […]
Giving Thanks
The Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center Staff gives thanks to all those organizations who support us, provide meeting space, welcome our students with artists and programs, donated to our fundraiser (not one business we asked, declined to help), or offered help in the future. This list is growing by leaps and bounds! [slideshow_deploy id=’306′] […]
Virginia Festival of the Book Hosts Two Teen Panels in 2014!
An enormous thanks to Sarah McGuire, creative writing teacher at Western Albemarle High School, for her work in coordinating with the Virginia Festival of the Book committee to produce two panels for teens on Pub Day in 2014. The First Pages panel will allow teens a chance to submit a first page for review […]
How to condense a story – The Spoken Word!
Browning Porter has been writing poetry since he can remember, and long been involved in the literary culture of Charlottesville, attending first UVA, and then the Warren Wilson low residency MFA program. Finding himself gravitating to a more direct connection between writer and audience, Browning spoke about his love of storytelling and of the rewards […]
What a very special event!
Sunday afternoon’s fundraiser was a heartwarming experience. We enjoyed an amazing performance by Travis Grice from Western Albemarle High School, and his band. The set list held everyone’s attention and the energy of the band was infectious! I understand that Travis has a second engagement coming up, and we are not surprised! We were […]
Illuminations in the UVA Special Collections Library
“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” ― Anne Frank Molly Swartzburg, curator of The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library of the University of Virginia, hosted a group of students from the Teen Writing Center last Thursday. She had a little help from Thomas, of course, as he […]