InsideOut Literary Arts Project

InsideOut Literary Arts Project
2111 Woodward Ave Ste 1010
Detroit, MI 48201
313-965-5332
www.insideoutdetroit.org

Mission
InsideOut Literary Arts Project places professional creative writers as teachers and mentors in schools to engage K-12 students in the pleasure and power of poetry and literary self-expression. InsideOut uses innovative classroom techniques and celebrates students’ creativity by providing performance opportunities and publishing their work.

Vision
Experiencing the passion and transforming power of the written word will become an essential part of every child’s educational experienc

InsideOut was founded in 1995 to place professional poets and fiction writers in Detroit schools to encourage young people’s imaginative writing and promote self-confidence and awareness through publicizing and celebrating their work. InsideOut is a founding member of WITSA (Writers in the Schools Alliance)—a national group of literary arts organizations incorporated in 2005 to support the work of placing professional writers in long-term residencies in public schools and other community settings. InsideOut is unique among similar organizations across the country in that professionally printed literary magazines are created each year from each school InsideOut serves. These publications, which display students’ writing and art in beautiful books with full-color covers, develop student initiative and provide opportunities to celebrate students’ creativity in schools and communities.

InsideOut was founded by Dr. Terry Blackhawk — an award-winning teacher of Creative Writing, and author of four volumes of poetry. In its early stages, InsideOut placed writers in five Detroit high schools. Today it conducts year-long programs through Detroit Public Schools, annually serving over 2,400 students,grades 1 through 12, in twenty-four schools.

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