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Deep Center’s beloved Young Author Project (YAP) positions creative writing workshops within the middle and high schools of the Savannah–Chatham County…
Angel is originally from New York. She loves singing, music, and writing, and likes to call herself an enigma. She wants people to love themselves …
The personality of every workshop is different. Sometimes our Deep workshops are chock-full of introverts who prefer being invited to give their …
Sometimes our young authors write pieces that deal with sensitive information about their personal lives. And that’s great! Deep is a place where these…
Acknowledge the event (in this case, the mass shooting in Florida that killed 17 students). When adults pretend it didn’t happen or is too taboo to spe…
Many of you have probably heard of the deaths of John Cooksey and Ricky Boyd. The news story is here. John Cooksey was a 12-year-old at Oglethorpe Char…
Middle school can sometimes feel like a battleground. Some of our young people are the targets of bullying every single day; others only witness it sec…
Running out of revision tactics? Try a trick from this list of revision tips and tricks we’ve compiled.…
Savannah recently survived Hurricane Matthew, a category 2 storm that left many of us without power and some of us flooded with trees through our roofs…
Want a way to talk about police brutality, gun violence, Black Live Matter with your workshop? Consider these poems (from poets like Nikki Giovanni, Au…