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About Salt Lake Teens Write
The Salt Lake Teens Write (SLTW) program is a youth program of the SLCC Community Writing Center (CWC) in partnership with the Salt Lake City Public Library. We're proud to provide this series of writing workshops to support teens as they develop their skills and passion for creative writing. All teens entering grades 9-12 this fall are eligible to participate in this program. Participants in each group will meet for three weeks at the designated times for comprehensive workshops and publication processes. Additionally, participants will work together and separately to create amazing works of writing and engage in their creative passions.
The CWC is a community outreach program of the Salt Lake Community College. We have a number of exciting programs and services dedicated to helping you with your writing. Visit our website using the link below for more information and to discover more workshops, writing groups, and to learn about writing coaching.
The CWC is a community outreach program of the Salt Lake Community College. We have a number of exciting programs and services dedicated to helping you with your writing. Visit our website using the link below for more information and to discover more workshops, writing groups, and to learn about writing coaching.
Wanna get published?
At the end of each year, all the writing cohorts come together to collaborate on an anthology publication and public reading to celebrate the different texts they have created during the year. All Salt Lake Valley teens are eligible to submit regardless of registration status! (In other words, don't worry if you didn't have a chance to join a writing group throughout the year).
This year's submission deadline is 11:59 PM on November 4, 2023.
The reading gala will be held on the evening of December 16 at the SLCC Community Writing Center
to honor the artists whose works are selected for publication.
Make your submission via Submittable by clicking on the button below!
SLTW has several programs at different times throughout 2023.
(For more information about this year's programming, scroll to the bottom of this page).
Registration and participation are ALWAYS free!
(For more information about this year's programming, scroll to the bottom of this page).
Registration and participation are ALWAYS free!
Click on the buttons below for PDFs of the last few editions of the Salt Lake Teens Write Anthology:
"Gray Matters," 2022
"Nowhere Near," 2021
"Forms in Blue," 2020
"Gray Matters," 2022
"Nowhere Near," 2021
"Forms in Blue," 2020
SLTW FALL 2023
Fall 2023 Cohort: Horrors & Monsters
(Held in person at the Community Writing Center: September 30, 2023)
All writers around middle school ages are encouraged to sign up!
1-part workshop
Saturday, September 30, 10-12 pm
Get your spooky on! Come see why we love to be scared and how monsters are used to show us what we fear. What makes something scary? How do you make your writing something that will crawl under a reader's skin? Participants will work together and individually to create amazing works of writing and discover what makes their inner scaredy cats tick while engaging in their creative passions.
(Held in person at the Community Writing Center: September 30, 2023)
All writers around middle school ages are encouraged to sign up!
1-part workshop
Saturday, September 30, 10-12 pm
Get your spooky on! Come see why we love to be scared and how monsters are used to show us what we fear. What makes something scary? How do you make your writing something that will crawl under a reader's skin? Participants will work together and individually to create amazing works of writing and discover what makes their inner scaredy cats tick while engaging in their creative passions.
- Cost: Free. Registration is required.
- Online 30-minute coaching sessions (by email or video chat) for one-on-one feedback from the SLTW team. Hit us up!