Outreach Programs

Help Young Writers Tell Their Life Stories

Summer ProgramsThe Writers’ Center of Indiana’s Memoir Project takes writing into the community and helps people learn the skills they need to tell their life stories.  WCI staff and volunteers have collected and published the stories of a wide range of people, including Latino and African American youth, senior citizens, special need moms, war veterans, 4-H alumni, and girls in prison.  This year the WCI received funding from the Summer Youth Program Fund to work with young people aged 6-18 at the St. Florian Center Summer Leadership Camp, La Plaza’s Leadership Institute for Latino Youth and the Concord Neighborhood Center.  Each project will culminate with the publication of an anthology of student work and a spoken word performance.


 


St. Florian Center Youth Leadership Camp
Ages 6-9, 10-13, 14-18
Mondays and Wednesdays, June 6- July 13
9 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
IPS Center for Inquiry at Central Ave. & 57th Street
 
LaPlaza’s Leadership Institute for Latino Youth
Ages 11-13
Mondays and Wednesdays, June 20-July 29 (No class on July 4th)
2 p.m.-4 p.m.
St. Gabriel (6000 W. 34th Street)
 
Concord Community Center
Ages 11-13
Wednesdays, June 1-August 6 (No meeting on July 6th)
9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
(1301 S. Meridian Street)

We will be teaching close to 150 students this summer, and we need volunteers to assist us with teaching, writing, and transcribing.  Past volunteers agree that helping young people write about their lives is a satisfying and often transforming experience.  If you are interested in helping the youth at St. Florian, LaPlaza, and Concord Community Center in Westfield tell their stories, please email Education Director Lyn Jones at ljones2@bsu.edu. We ask that you come for at least two consecutive sessions at the site or sites you choose.


In addition to offering excellent programs for aspiring writers and serious readers, the Writers’ Center of Indiana takes writing and reading to libraries, churches, and community organizations with programs that inspire, educate, and bring forth the voices of people not usually heard. 

Memoir Programs

The Writers’ Center of Indiana Memoir Projects are designed to help people of all ages tell their life stories.

Etheridge Knight Poetry Contest

Indiana high school and middle school students are invited to enter this annual contest co-sponsored by the Etheridge Knight Festival and the Writers’ Center of Indiana.

Speakers’ Bureau

The Writers’ Center of Indiana can help you find a writer to visit your school, church, library, community group, or book club—or join you for dinner, if that’s what you’d like.

Sponsors & Partners

WCI is grateful to sponsors and partner organizations who support our Education and Outreach Programs.

 

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"Writing is a struggle against silence."

—Carlos Fuentes