“While there are organizations out there that support writers—and even teen writers—there are few ones out there that allow teens to take the lead in their own activism and self-advocacy. #TeenWritersProject allows me to write the stories I haven’t seen written before.”  —Workshop Participant
Creative Writing Workshops
Whether you’re sorting out your feelings or bursting with epic tales, dive into a chill space and write with other teens. We've created a culture for you to meet up with other teens to scribble, dream, laugh, heal—this is your zone. Let’s write it out together. 
By reading, writing, and exploring literature through workshops that take place outside of school, teens can celebrate the cultural, artistic, and social traditions, experiences, and contributions of writers before them, and consider them as a standard by which to measure their own literary style, achievements and success.
We are available to host creative writing and academic writing workshops with organizations, schools, libraries, churches, shelters, recreation centers, clubs, or other groups that center teens. ​
Academic Writing Workshops
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write! Let them think you were born that way!
​-Ernest Hemingway
Essay Writing 101
Teachers, if your students struggle with knowing what to write in class or on college entrance essays, this workshop will provide strategies for them to learn how to write classroom essays, for high-stakes exams, and for college entrance essays that get them noticed!

Our essay writing workshop is an opportunity for high school students to kick-start, fine-tune, and polish their writing skills. What students can learn from each session:

Writing
  • Deconstructing prompts
  • Effective brainstorming
  • How to write effective thesis statements
  • Writing relevant topic sentences
  • Staying on topic
  • Add depth/complexity to your essay
  • Write real-world conclusions
  • Incorporate academic vocabulary
  • Use personal and shared experiences to develop personal narratives
  • Connect theories and knowledge learned in the classroom to real-world experiences to draft persuasive content

Social Engagement
  • Being exposed to new ideas
  • Exploring various world perspectives so that you can use them when writing
  • Building effective written and verbal communication skills

Academic Merit
  • Improve overall writing skills
  • Stop being intimated by any genre of writing
  • Experimenting with literary devices in your academic writing
  • Adding creativity to your writing
  • Become a more concise writer when necessary
  • Develop critical-thinking skills​
STORYTELLING: THE ROUX OF LIFE THE WAY YOU WANT TO SEASON IT.
​-delmetria millener