Pima County Public Library: Announcing A Teen Writing Group In July With Marge Pellegrino

Hello, aspiring writers!

Posted Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 9:40 am MT

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July 1, 2021

Hello, aspiring writers!

Sign up now for writing workshops in July, each Saturday at 11:00am starting on July 10th.

Teen writers in Pop: Write On will participate in 45-minute workshops with 15-minute question and answer conversations.

Audience: Teens (ages 14-18)

This series of writing workshops will help build confidence in your own thinking and writing by inviting you to:

Submit your application on the Pop: Write On webpage.

Award winning author Marge Pellegrino facilitates the workshops. About Marge:

Marge leads writers of all ages in workshops that invite them to think in new ways and discover their own voices.
Marge facilitated and coordinated programing for the Owl & Panther Project for 20 years, until 2018. The program was a finalist in the 2015 Out-of-School Time Awards of Excellence by the Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence. Owl & Panther was also a finalist in the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award in the spring of 2016.
Marge developed and facilitated the Word Journeys program at the Pima County Public Library for twelve years. The program was a finalist for the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities’ Coming Up Taller Award for excellence in afterschool programming in 2007, and won that distinction in 2008.
Marge’s work with KARE Center and Owl & Panther resulted in comics published by The Comic Book Project Tucson I Am a Super Hero edition, which touched on foster care and refugee flight respectively.
As a teaching artist, Marge has been nominated for the Tucson Pima Arts Council’s Lumie Award 2008, Governor’s Award 2009 and named Local Hero by the Tucson Weekly, December, 2006, and was a Juried member of the Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Roster, 1998-2014.

This press release was produced by the Pima County Public Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.