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Southern Word School Program

November 14, 2019

Unstoppable – Uno1take

July 11, 2019

Carmen – Forever Thing

January 13, 2019

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2024 Youth Poet Laureate Application Available

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May 3, 2023

2023 Summer Studio Registration

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April 21, 2023

Amplifying Your Voice, Reshaping Our World: A Nationwide Young Writers Series on Mental Health

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Publications

At Our Essence

Poems from the Adolescents of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, 2020

Mystical and Made of Glass

Poems from the Adolescents of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, 2019

Voyages and Visitors

An anthology of stories and poems by the teen writers at Studio NPL and Southern Word, 2019

Reflections Unseen

Poems from the Adolescents of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, 2018

On This Complicated Planet

An anthology of stories and poems by the teen writers at Studio NPL and Southern Word, 2018

Empty and Beautiful, Yet Full of the Sea

Poems from the Adolescents of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, 2017