InsideOut is looking for writers who can teach the joy of creative writing to young people. Employment is part-time, typically 3-6 hours of teaching one day a week from October – May. A yearlong commitment is required; however, writers who are selected to be on the IO roster are not…

A hearty thanks to The Wayne State University Farmers Market for welcoming InsideOut Literary Arts Project to its entertainment line-up. IO’s Chace “Mic Write,”” Morris, an assistant writer-in-residence, youth poet Joseph Verge and IO Youth Leader, Justin Rogers wowed market goers with original work. IO looks forward to being added to the…

Detroit’s Urban Innovation Exchange featured InsideOut Literary Arts Founder Dr. Terry Blackhawk for her trailblazing work with local youth. The Urban Innovation Exchange is an initiative to showcase and advance Detroit’s growing social innovation movement. Other featured organizations and community leaders include:  Delphia Simmons, Founder of Thrive Detroit, a social venture offering vulnerably-housed citizens…

IO continued its 17-year tradition of publishing a professional quality literary journal for each school we serve, a total of 28 in 2012. The journals are the culmination of months of reading, writing, revision and more writing, as students work side-by-side with an IO writer-in-residence who guides them  through the literary…

Please join InsideOut Literary Arts as we celebrate our selection as a 2012 recipient of the 14th annual “Closing the Gap” award from New Detroit. The award honors individuals, organizations  and companies whose work exemplifies New Detroit’s commitment to building bridges and extending cultural understanding across racial lines. “Each of this year’s…

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Produced as an Undergraduate Research Project through Wayne State’s Honors College by WSU instructor Joel Silvers and Department of Film Studies student Erik Daniel,  ”A Poet in Every Classroom” explores the unique dynamic between instructors and students.  The 17-minute film has been selected as a prime time feature  by Detroit…

IO is still grateful to the more than 200 people who flocked into The Peacock Room in Midtown Detroit recently in support of our race to capture $25,000 challenge grant from Hollywood movie producer, Bob Shaye. The event, Sonnets, Shopping and Champagne, was co-sponsored by The Peacock Room and Detroit…

At InsideOut Literary Arts Project, we pride ourselves on bringing the best in verse and literary vision to Detroit’s youngest writers. Our roster of writers-in-residence is just one example. Another is Scratch The Page (STP), an annual free workshop/reading series that taps nationally recognized writers to fire up the pens…

Detroit Public Television takes an in-depth look at one teenager’s use of poetry to battle depression. The half-hour episode of Vital Signs features IO’s Dr. Suzanne Scarfone’s working as a mentor to Ranequa Kelley-Boyd. Vital Signs uses first person stories to humanize health struggles in Southeastern Michigan. “Using the arts as a form of therapy…