I’m super excited to announce that 2025 is our 30th Anniversary year – that’s right, InsideOut Literary Arts has been serving Detroit youth with high quality creative writing programming for three decades! From our start in a handful of high schools to serving over three…
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“Sixteen-year-old Charisma Holly of Detroit helped kick off Detroit Homecoming with a performance of the following poem. The theme of this year’s Homecoming was ‘Detroit 2050,’ and we thought the poem painted such a vivid picture of Detroit’s history and where it is — or could be — heading, we wanted to share it with a wider audience here.” — Crain’s Detroit Business
Executive Director Suma Karaman Rosen writes about showing up for teens in an Op-Ed for the Detroit Free Press.
Executive Director Suma Karaman Rosen and School Programs Manager Shawntai Brown speak with Fox 2 about the impact of MacKenzie Scott’s transformational gift.
There are few moments in a nonprofit organization’s life that are truly transformative. InsideOut Literary Arts is about to experience one.
Executive Director Suma Karaman Rosen had the opportunity to talk about the Detroit Youth Poetry Con and what it means for teens across the area on WDET 101.9FM. Take a listen!
InsideOut student poet King Bethel wrote a spoken word piece that earned him a $25,000 scholarship from the Detroit Pistons Foundation.
Alandra Chuney-Jackson is an InsideOut alumni, the Co-Executive Director of the Youth Development Resource Center (YDRC) in Detroit, and the founder of the Sisters’ Couch – an organization dedicated to de-stigmatizing mental health for Black women.
The Detroit Metro Times attended InsideOut’s Visting Writer Series with Michigan Poet Laureate and InsideOut Alum Nandi Comer. They witnessed the magic of youth voice in action.