Community Writing Center
The Salt Lake City Public Library and the SLCC Community Writing Center are excited to offer a writing mentoring program for local teens.
Salt Lake Teens Write(September 2011 - May 2012) |
Imagine yourself as a junior in high school, not sure of your future, (college? career?), but one thing you do know is that you like to write. Now imagine yourself as a person with a career, who uses writing on a daily basis. Bring these two people together and you’ve got a new community writing program being offered by the SLCC Community Writing Center and the Salt Lake City Public Library.
In Salt Lake Teens Write (SLTW), underserved teens are paired with volunteer mentors who use writing in their daily lives and professions. Together, they explore how writing opens different pathways to education and successful careers. Mentoring teams meet for 1-2 hours a week and work together to produce a portfolio of writing based on the teen's interests. They also attend quarterly writing workshops with the other SLTW mentoring teams. At the end of the year, all of the mentoring teams collaborate on an anthology publication and public reading to celebrate the different texts they have created during the year.
Applications for Mentors
| Mentor Interest Profile Publicity Release for Mentors |
Applications for Teens
| Teens Write Application Form 2012-2013 |