What Times Are These is a collection of over 75 poems, stories, and essays written by public high school students across the state of Mississippi. These pieces, written during the first year of the COVID pandemic, respond to the prompts: “What makes you afraid?” and “What gives you courage?” This collection is a product of virtual literary correspondences that took place between high schoolers and local Mississippi writers during the fall of 2020 and spring of 2021. The book includes letters and responses from guest writers, as well as a foreword by noted writer and scholar W. Ralph Eubanks. All proceeds will help fund future Write for Mississippi projects.
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Call and Response is a collection of poems, stories, and essays written by senior citizens and public high school students across the state of Mississippi. In these pieces, young people creatively respond to the teenage memories of Mississippi elders, reimagining their stories through a contemporary lens. This collection is a product of the Write for Mississippi workshops that took place in the fall of 2018 and spring of 2019 — linking local Mississippi writers to nursing homes and public high school classrooms — and the final entries were selected by the students of the Millsaps College Storytelling class. The book also includes a foreword by Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and oral historian Alysia Burton Steele. All proceeds will help fund future Write for Mississippi projects.
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What Can We Do for Our Country? is a collection of 100 poems, stories, and essays written by public high school students across the state of Mississippi. These pieces, each detailing a problem in the students’ communities, are a product of the Write for Mississippi workshops that took place in the spring of 2017 — linking local Mississippi writers to public high school classrooms — and were selected by judges Derrick Harriell, Beth Henley, and Ebony Lumumba. The book also includes a foreword by Jackson native and New York Times-bestselling author Angie Thomas. All proceeds will help fund future Write for Mississippi projects.
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