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.
Lakshmi, Teen Editor (Texas). Lakshmi (she/her) is passionate about increased diversity in the media. She believes one of the best ways to achieve equity is to make people feel seen in the works they read, listen to, watch, etc. Lakshmi enjoys writing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction about balancing her Indian heritage with her American upbringing, mental health and wellbeing, and social justice issues. Outside of writing, she enjoys working with activist organizations like Girl Up and Diversify Our Narrative, teaching literacy to younger students, playing piano, and going for runs.
VOLUNTEERS
Galiba (New York)
Maria (Utah)