{"id":41300,"date":"2016-05-03T14:51:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T19:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=41300"},"modified":"2016-05-03T14:51:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T19:51:54","slug":"chicago-teens-find-confidants-and-confidence-by-putting-pen-to-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/chicago-teens-find-confidants-and-confidence-by-putting-pen-to-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago teens find confidants and confidence by putting pen to paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Elyse Samuels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chicago Public Library, along with several other sponsors, hosted Chi Teen Lit Fest in mid April. The first-ever event at the Harold Washington Library Center at Columbia College was planned by\u00a0teenagers, who brainstormed and came up with\u00a0a variety of workshops, panels and activities.<\/p>\n<p>The halls filled with teenagers discussing poetry, written narratives, editing, journalism and more. Students could choose from various options including\u00a0writing poems on typewriters or\u00a0creating their\u00a0own light-up greeting cards.<\/p>\n<p>Briana Washington, a senior at King College Prep in Chicago, helped plan the festival after noticing a flier at her school about literary opportunities for teens. She hosted the panel &#8220;Make Your Move: Teen Panel,&#8221; in which four teens answered questions from the crowd about their writing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Chicago introduces Chi Teen LIt Fest\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/165194502?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Washington, along with many other teens at the event, said writing provides a necessary outlet. She explained how the form of expression has helped her find her voice, cope with life and build relationships with the people around her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I kind of accomplished why I came here today,&#8221; Washington said. &#8220;It was to really get to understand other teens and how they connect to their writing&#8230;what they write and what they look at and what they think is important, so that was awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Four aspiring writers speak in the &#8220;Make Your Move:Teen Panel&#8221; at Chi Teen Lit Fest. They discussed their writing processes, inspiration and dreams for the future. (Elyse Samuels\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elyse Samuels Chicago Public Library, along with several other sponsors, hosted Chi Teen Lit Fest in mid April. 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