November 21, 2008
about StudioSTL
Why? StudioSTL empowers youth by helping them discover, develop, and celebrate their individual voices through writing. All of our programs are based on our belief that a literary toolbox and writing skills - whether for fun, for school, in personal and professional life - are indispensable lifelong gifts.
How? We bring writers together with
youth, ages 6 to 18, to partner on one-of-a-kind writing projects.
Since 2005, the StudioSTL writing community has worked with over 300 St.
Louis youth to publish two bound books, five newspapers (5000 circulation)
and two magazines (1000 circulation). They've proudly shared their
written work at poet
ry
readings, on radio, at launch parties and author signings. And perhaps
best of all, they've become part of the StudioSTL writing community, continuing
to pen brilliant written works. They create, imagine, dream, ponder
and question -- all in a nurturing writer's haven -- where they learn a
bit more about writing and lots more about themselves. We're proud
of our writers and our volunteer community whose unending dedication make
possible our free writing programs.