Cleveland.com and Lake Erie Ink Collaborate on program for teen writers…Write About Now!
From the cleveland.com article by Laura Johnston:
“Late cleveland.com reporter Nikki Delamotte was dedicated to mentoring young writers at Lake Erie Ink. To honor her memory, cleveland.com is launching a program with the nonprofit youth writing organization, welcoming teenagers into our newsroom.
Write About Now is a 10-week program for a dozen eighth-graders through high school years, to learn about journalism from cleveland.comreporters and editors, experiment with writing and publish their own perspectives on cleveland.com.
“I think it’s really meaningful to be able to offer something that’s concretely a link to Nikki,” Lake Erie Ink Executive Director Amy Rosenbluth said. “We’ve been given this extension into a new community of journalists, and a new opportunity. I think the kids will respond.”
Write About Now will meet Tuesday afternoons, beginning in September, at the cleveland.com newsroom. Each week, one journalist will speak to the group, then reporters and editors will work one-on-one with students, on whatever they want to write – news, creative nonfiction, fiction.
Any student can apply for Write About Now, through Lake Erie Ink. Interested students and their parents can attend an open house at the cleveland.com newsroom, 1801 Superior Ave. in Cleveland, on June 11 or Aug. 14. For more information, email ljohnston@cleveland.com.”
Apply here: https://lakeerieink.org/write-about-now/
Link to the full cleveland.com article can be found HERE