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Isabella Canapp & Noelle Markos, participants in the Navigating the Margins writing program. Two years ago, HCPSS’ LGBTQIA+ Initiatives Specialist Danielle DuPuis decided to try something new. With the help of then-senior Ella Heiliger, she applied for, and won a grant from It Gets Better to launch “Navigating the Margins,” an extracurricular creative writing program for HCPSS high school students. “We had two primary goals in mind when we created the program,” explains DuPuis. “We wanted to provide students with a safe space to explore and enhance their writing skills. And we wanted to give them the chance to publish their stories in a single volume, hopefully enabling readers of those stories to gain new understanding of, and empathy for, the lived experiences of others.” DuPuis started by reaching out to published authors who could serve as mentors to participating students. Kathy MacMillan, one of five author mentors in the Navigating the Margins writing program. “I wanted to find people who were not just good writers, but who were good at making a connection with students and were interested in helping to build the students’ confidence in writing,” she says. DuPuis identified and enlisted the help of five authors for the role: Kalynn Bayron, Cierra Kaler-Jones, Kathy MacMillan, Laura Shovan, and R. Eric Thomas. DuPuis and Heiliger then began the process of selecting student participants from nearly 90 applicants. They selected 25 students, representative of all HCPSS high schools. The program officially got underway in November 2023, when the selected students participated in an all-day field trip retreat. There, they had the opportunity to meet and engage with each other; participate in various writing workshops; learn about the author-mentors in the program; and select which author-mentor to work with for the duration of the school year. Luke Gannon and Shubhani Majmundar, participants in the Navigating the Margins writing program. Participating students subsequently took part in monthly virtual workshops led by the author mentors. Students also submitted up to four pages of written work per month for their author-mentor to review and provide feedback. In May, students submitted a final […]
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