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delmetria millener on Ghostwriting - Book Riot Feature
January, 2022 - Stacey Megally spends time with ghostwriters, delmetria millener and Angie Ransome-Jones to get some answers on the art of ghostwriting — what the process entails, how it plays into the literary world, and what it’s like to work as a book ghostwriter! Read more!
THE WINTER EDITION #4 IS OUT! GO LOOK!
December, 2021 - Have you read our latest, the Winter 2021 edition? Why not? Check out the latest! Read more!
delmetria millener, president/publisher Featured in Book Riot
November, 2021 - delmetria millener is among many literary citizens who advocate for teen writers and them having the tools necessary for the to write. Stacey Megally is a #TeenWritersProject Director and #TWP Quarterly Deputy Editor, who wanted the world to know about the importance of teens writing. So she wrote about it. In her article, not only does she highlight how important teen journals are to delmetria, she gives a list of teen journals to check out! Read more!
#TEENWRITERSPROJECT IN VOYAGE DALLAS
November, 2021 - #TeenWritersProject is a community-based organization with a world-wide reach! We provide writing, publishing, leadership, volunteer, and freelance opportunities to teen writers more than any other teen writing organization. VoyageDallas wanted us to talk about it, so we did! Check out our profile in November's issue of VoyageDallas. Read more!
ISSUE #3 IS OUT! CHECK IT OUT
September, 2021 - Have you read our latest edition? Why not? Check out our latest! Read more!
#TEENWRITERSPROJECT IN DALLAS DOING GOOD
September, 2021 - #TeenWritersProject is gearing up for North Texas Giving Day and Dallas Doing Good wanted to help us get the word out. Check out our collaborative feature in Dallas Doing Good's publication. Read more!
#TEENWRITERSPROJECT GRABBED AS 2021-2022 CAP ARTIST
August, 2021 - The City of Dallas's Office of Arts and Culture has accepted #TeenWritersProject into their 2021-2022 Community Artist Program. In a Master Class-like format, we will host a monthly Craft & Career Speaker Series. Teens will join industry experts virtually on our Discord channel to learn how to write and how to become a writer.
We have also partnered with The Smart Project to create a literary and visual project with teens! Ten literary and visual teen artists will collaborate to create a mural that will be exhibited at the Pencil on Paper Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
We have also partnered with The Smart Project to create a literary and visual project with teens! Ten literary and visual teen artists will collaborate to create a mural that will be exhibited at the Pencil on Paper Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
#TWP's delmetria millener PRESENTS ON TABC'S PODCAST
August, 2021 - #TeenWritersProject kicks off a collaborative partnership with Teen Author Boot Camp as a presenter on their Webinar Wednesday podcast. Tune in!
#TEENWRITERSPROJECT PARTIES ON THE PLAZA WITH WFAA
July, 2021 - #TeenWritersProject's Treasurer, Shankrelyn C. Walker, and Event Planner, Jacqueline Bailey, attend Party on the Plaza at WFAA in preparation for North Texas Giving Day on September 23rd!
#TEENWRITERSPROJECT IS FEATURED ON LIFESTRONG PODCAST
June, 2021 - #TeenWritersProject's Founding Director and Editor-in-Chief, delmetria millener, is featured on the LifeStrong Project's podcast. Listen here!
#TEENWRITERSPROJECT PUBLISHES AGAIN!
- June, 2021 - #TeenWritersProject publishes its second Lit Zine! Read it or submit!
#TEENWRITERSPROJECT PREENTS AT YEWCON 2021
April, 2021 - #TeenWritersProject kicks off a collaborative partnership with Young Eager Writers as special presenting guests at their Fall Conference.
SHOUTOUT DFW: #TEENWRITERSPROJECT IN THE NEWS
January, 2021 - #TeenWritersProject is in the news again, sharing with DFW our programs, plans and partnerships. Read more.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
January, 2021 - #TeenWritersProject publishes its first Lit Zine! Read it and submit!
WELL OILED AND RUNNING SMOOTHLY
NEW BRAND, NEW NAME, SAME MISSION
July, 2020 - #BrownTeensRead is officially, legally changed to #TeenWritersProject! Now, we can provide a collaborative and engaging space for teens to write and be published!
We give teens the room and opportunity to write freely and honestly without judgment. They can now write and publish the stories they want to read and document history as they see it dramatically changing.
We give teens the room and opportunity to write freely and honestly without judgment. They can now write and publish the stories they want to read and document history as they see it dramatically changing.
THE WORLD SHIFTS, WE PIVOT
March, 2020 - #BrownTeensRead goes virtual! The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the world. In seconds, businesses shuttered, shelter-at-home orders were commanded and schools closed. The world shift and went virtual.
So did we. #BTR pivoted, went online and gave teens, worldwide, access books, each other and phenomenal experiences reading and writing together.
So did we. #BTR pivoted, went online and gave teens, worldwide, access books, each other and phenomenal experiences reading and writing together.
TEEN GENEALOGY WRITING WORKSHOPS
February, 2020 - In partnership with Growing Your Roots 2020, the Austin Public Library and the San Francisco Public Library, #BrownTeensRead facilitated: Oral Fixations, Family Histories Retold, a teen genealogy workshop! Participants created interactive genealogy journals, wrote compelling docu-histories about people from the 19th century and presented their work!
ORAL FIXATIONS: FAMILY HISTORIES RE-TOLD
December 2019-January 2020 - In partnership with Core Elements, Inc., #BrownTeensRead facilitated a teen genealogy workshop! Participants created interactive genealogy journals and wrote compelling docu-histories about people from the 19th century!
PROFILED IN VOYAGE-DALLAS MAGAZINE
August, 2019 - Founding Director, delmetria millener, was featured in Voyage Magazine-Dallas. Read about her journey and how #BrownTeensRead went from a class project to a nonprofit organization! Read more!
APPROVED!
May, 2019 - #BrownTeensRead is designated a tax-exempt, 501(c)3 by the IRS!
JUMP ROPING FOR LITERARCY
May, 2019 - In partnership with Giving Keys of Hope, #BrownTeensRead sponsored a Jump Roping Literacy Challenge as a community service event for both organizations. For every 15 minutes that the teens jumped rope, the African American Environmentalist Association would plant two trees and donate a small library to a classroom. The challenge lasted 12 hours. After, #BTR and GKH sponsored dinner and dancing.
A COLLABORATIVE AND ENGAGING SPACE TO WRITE
May, 2019 - Teens holds its second collaborative writing activity. Rappers, song writers, poets, novel writers and screenwriters each contributed a piece in their genre. They revised, edited, wrote, rewrote, critiqued, discussed and did all the literary things necessary to make all the pieces fit into a screenplay.
MUSINGS & MAYHEM
April, 2019 - Teens participate in a collaborative writing after seeing the play, Twelfth Night. Teens had to take a scene and recreate it as a rap, song, monologue, or other creative piece!
#BTR CELEBRATE DR. SEUSS BOOKS!
March, 2019 - #BrownTeensRead book club members had a blast hosting a birthday party event in honor of Dr. Seuss books. Teens visited CareCenter Ministries to read, eat Dr. Seuss-themed cupcakes, dance and socialize with elementary and middle school youth. They also got a chance to read with The Cat in the Hat and participate in contests and prizes to celebrate Dr. Seuss's 95th birthday!
#BTR'S ICE CREAM SOCIAL KICK-OFF EVENT
February, 2019 - #BrownTeensRead was introduced to the public by hosting a kickoff Ice Cream Social event! High school teens had a blast networking, winning prizes, playing book-themed games and of course, eating traditional and dairy-free ice cream!
LATE NIGHT LITERATURE CIRCLES
October, 2018 - Brown teens gathered at a local high school to read, discuss, reflect and make connections on culturally responsive literature. This literature circle was engaging, interactive and fun! They wanted to finish the entire book in one night! Oh yeah, almost forgot...there were snacks!
#BROWNTEENSREAD WINS LEF GRANT OPPORTUNITY
October, 2018 - #BrownTeensRead Wins Again! For the second year in a row, #BrownTeensRead has won the LEF Educators Grant! The funding received made it possible for #BTR to become a nonprofit organization, host a kickoff event to introduce #BTR to the community and host their first read-in!
FROM CLASS PROJECT TO ACADEMIC MOVEMENT
September, 2018 - Some things just make sense. #BrownTeensRead Reading Awareness Project started as an assignment for a Business English class. But, as the students shuffled along, their teacher detected a problem: many teens of color admit that they do not read, and even more disheartening, do not like to read! It was making our project difficult because in order to develop their project, they needed to read in order to gather research and statistics. But, they just did not like reading.
After consulting with other English teachers, delmetria, or ms. d., learned that teens across the board do not like reading! Tragic! So, to address that problem, she created a solution! #BrownTeensRead! While many of our initial concepts for the project remain the same, our focus has bent toward getting teens to read more, and to get educators to be more culturally responsive when choosing reading material for their English classes.
Now, as advocates for a balanced narrative of teens who do love reading and writing, we aim to appeal to more teens of color to read and write, not just for the classroom, but for their own enjoyment!
After consulting with other English teachers, delmetria, or ms. d., learned that teens across the board do not like reading! Tragic! So, to address that problem, she created a solution! #BrownTeensRead! While many of our initial concepts for the project remain the same, our focus has bent toward getting teens to read more, and to get educators to be more culturally responsive when choosing reading material for their English classes.
Now, as advocates for a balanced narrative of teens who do love reading and writing, we aim to appeal to more teens of color to read and write, not just for the classroom, but for their own enjoyment!
FROM CLASS PROJECT TO ACADEMIC MOVEMENT
April, 2018 - In celebration of National Poetry Month, delmetria millener joins Dr. Stephanie Boyce and the F.R.E.S.H. Classroom to share how she builds her Poetry Gumbo open mic event in the classroom, to discuss the Power of Poetry, and to give teachers tips on hosting a FRESH Poetry Café Experience for students. Tune in!
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