“A group of 26 Maine high school students were left astonished and inspired after former President Barack Obama dropped in on a late-January session of The Telling Room’s Young Writers & Leaders program, a creative writing and leadership program for students with international and multicultural backgrounds.”
Read More“Young Writers and Leaders (YWL) is one of the programs at The Telling Room that works to empower students to use their voices through writing to tell their stories and impact change in the world. Those lessons came to life recently when an unlikely guest paid that program a visit.”
Read More“Who knows? Former President Barack Obama could be lurking in the waiting room of your next Zoom meeting.”
Read More“The Maine-based literary arts education non-profit, which has a mission to ‘empower youth through writing and share their voices with the world,’ gave the group’s Young Writers & Leaders (YWL) program the unique opportunity to hear directly from Obama about his memoir and hear his insights about writing and experiences growing up between cultures.”
Read More“‘The whole thing was like so unreal. But it actually happened, and we have, like, we have video proof that it happened,’” said Noor Sager, a 15-year-old sophomore at Gorham High School.”
Read More“Former President Barack Obama spent an hour on a Zoom chat with 26 students from the Telling Room in Portland in late January, talking with them about writing, his recently published memoir, ‘A Promised Land,’ and the importance of storytelling, community and conquering self-doubts.”
Read MoreOur Young Writers & Leaders students were recently invited to have a special conversation with acclaimed author and renowned world leader President Barack Obama.
Read MoreHelp your stories find their way with our mix of virtual and in-person outdoor summer camps this year! Join us for some of our week-long camps, or for ongoing camps that meet once a week throughout the summer.
Read MoreA NEW LAND: 30 GROUNDBREAKING POEMS FROM YOUTH POETS, the much-acclaimed poetry collection featuring the best poems from our first fifteen years, is now published (with an introduction by Presidential Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman)!
Read More“A group of students at the Telling Room, a Portland-based youth literacy program, adapted its Week in Review writing program this year at a time when academic models have constantly evolved and adapted to keep children safe and distanced.”
Read MoreOur Black and Brown students have been telling us how they’re feeling, right now. In response, we’ve collaborated with our students to turn over our most visible current platforms, our social media, and monthly newsletter, to them in a new online series called The Voice of a Pride.
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