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A few random items of interest over the last few days at Young Writers Project, Inc.

First, feast your eyes on this recent submission by a student on youngwritersproject.org. This was done through vuvox.com which is an amazing site that allows users to create collages and multi-media visual stories. Great fun. Student's name is Bridget Iverson; she's at Mount Mansfield Union High School. Since this column is a bit narrow, this is best seen by clicking on the box next to the "SHARE" in the bottom right to view it on full screen.

Some other news:

• Pete Sutherland has begun work on The Ballad Project. Two schools were chosen for this residency which begins next week -- Swanton School and Benson Village School. Pete will be helping students create historical ballads relating to Lake Champlain. The project is funded by the Lake Champlain Basin Authority. Both schools are so excited and want to share the process with each other so we've built a Web site the kids will be using with Pete to watch what each other is doing.
• Workshops in comedy writing continue for about a dozen students. Jay Craven is taking the lead on this project and will be helping the students create several variety shows that will be taped and edited into a radio show.
• We have about 40 kids coming into the new YWP World Headquarters at Champlain on Saturday to do some writing exercises, gab, eat pizza and talk about how to improve YWP -- what's working and what isn't.
• We're going to be working with Burlington High Schools' "Shades of Ebony" project. More on that later.
• And the music you're hearing is daughter Anna who's in Kentucky researching women fiddlers. She's doing "clawhammer fiddling" on this one. In her senior year at CVU, Anna conceived the idea of getting students in Vermont to submit writing via the Internet. She set up a Yahoo! email account and solictied student judges from around the state. She got about 500 entries that year (2004-05) so I have her to thank for a major part of this project.

Cheers,

gg

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