LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Our organization provides a highly collaborative creative opportunity for teens to gain experience in leadership, life skill development, community service and reading, writing, social, and cultural literacy. Not only will you work collaboratively with other teen and adult members to brainstorm and develop programming, you will develop, create and publish The #TWP Quarterly Lit Zine, and actively engage with teens to recruit, encourage, support, lead, and have creative fun!
YOU'LL GET
- Experience: working, collaborating and leading with other teens and adults
- Letter of recommendation: when it's time to apply for college or work
- Free Access: to all our events or events we're hosting/presenting
- Volunteerism: verification of hours for community service
- Portfolio: help with your bio, resume and/or digital porfolio
- Promotion: win a contest? on the honor roll? got a new car? Tell us, we'll promote it
- Publication: your work will be published in our Lit Zine
- Community: network and connect with other like-minded teen writers
- Tenure: automatically become a member of our Alumni Network
WE NEED
- Time Management: can you juggle school, work, writing, home and your social life?
- Communication: can you be reached and respond easily and quickly by email, Discord or (rarely) by phone?
- Accountability: can you commit to completing your tasks or communicating when you can't?
- Enthusiasm: are you willing to learn and share skills, knowledge and responsibilities?
- Teamwork: can you work productively and professionally with other team members from around the world?
- Flexibility: are you flexible in a crunch, if necessary, to meet deadlines or help out?
TEEN EDITORIAL BOARD
Be a boss! Run meetings, plan projects and hold leadership positions is only part of what you'll take on as an intern or a volunteer teen board member. Being a member of our Teen Editorial Board is more than simply being in charge, you'll acquire transferable job skills, learn how to make smart decisions, work with a team, learn how to collaborate, prioritize, and engage the community through leadership, service, and volunteerism!
INTERNS
Kendall, Teen Coordinator (Texas). Kendall writes poetry and short stories on human emotions, history, life experiences, and societal struggles. The creativity and possibilities never end for her and spills over into her love of baking, designing, editing, reading, learning and cinematography. Some call it an obsession, Kendall calls it being a connoisseur of documented beauty.
Praise, Engagement Coordinator (Turkey). From West Africa, Nigeria, Praise is a teenage girl who sees the world as a play, and humans, the script writers. When she is not writing in her favorite coffee shop, Praise spends most of her time reading, cooking, traveling up and down the shelves in the public library or catching her favorite Broadway shows. An admitted sports fanatic, Praise feeds her addiction to football by watching seasonal games on Sunday afternoons.
VOLUNTEERS
Galiba, Tech Coordinator (New York). Galiba has been passionate about writing since she was small. From writing short stories to research papers for her classes, writing has been a core part of her life. Galiba firmly believes that writing has helped her develop other skills such as being able to communicate with others and, as cheesy as it may sound, writing has helped her find peace in life. In her free time, Galiba likes writing poetry, listening to music and watching anime!
Lakshmi, Teen Editor (Texas).