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In collaboration with the Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation and Charlotte Terry, Pam Proctor created and coordinates the Teen Writers Workshop, a series of free half-day seminars designed to introduce high school students to professional novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, and nonfiction book writers.

Since its founding in Vero Beach, Florida, in July 2000, the Teen Writers Workshop has conducted eighteen workshops, including three in the Indian River Correctional Institution for teen felons adjudicated as adults. Nearly 1000 high school students from six Florida counties have participated in the program, which has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the State of Florida’s Division of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Council of Indian River County, and Quail Valley Charities, Inc.

Students at the Teen Writers Workshop in Vero Beach Florida

As a result of the workshops, students have published poetry chapbooks and won literary awards, contests, and scholarships. Click here to contact Pam about the next Teen Writers Workshop.

Rainey Mills aspiring Novelist honored at the Teen Writers Workshop in Vero Beach, Florida


Aspiring novelist Rainey Mills (center) received honors as a Writing Fellow of the Teen Writers Workshop on April 26, 2008. The award was presented to Rainey by bestselling suspense writer David Hagberg and Suzanne Bertman, a representative of Quail Valley Charities, Inc.  Students who attend three workshops and submit a piece of writing are eligible for the award, which is given to the top five percent of teens participating in the nationally acclaimed writing program.

Listen to thriller writer David Hagberg's radio interview with host Marcia Littlejohn on Treasure & Space Coast Radio





Author David Hagberg
David Hagberg, Forge Books
Photo Credit: Jere Pechstein


...Register now for the next Teen Writers Workshop on Saturday, September 6, with Lisa Zahner, Executive Director of Dollars for Scholars of Indian River County...

Free Teen Writers Workshop!
1-4 P.M., Saturday, September 6, 2008
Richardson Center
Indian River State College Mueller Campus
Vero Beach, Florida
Funded by Quail Valley Charities, Inc.

Guest speaker: Lisa Zahner, Executive Director of Dollars for Scholars of Indian River County

Topic: How to Write Winning Essays for College and Scholarships

 

Lisa Zahner, Executive Director of Dollars for Scholars of Indian River County, reads and rates hundreds of scholarship essays annually.   Among her many roles, Zahner is responsible for the recruitment, selection and management of scholarship candidates and recipients of scholarships funded by local donations, bequests and foundation grants.  Over the past 43 years, such gifts have enabled Dollars for Scholars to give away more than $6 million in need-based college scholarships to more than 2,300 local scholars.  Scholarship information will be available at the September 6 workshop and can also be obtained by calling Dollars for Scholars at 772-569-9869.

Prior to joining Dollars for Scholars in 1999, Zahner worked as a journalist for six years, writing for Florida Today, the Press Journal Luminaries section, Florida People magazine, and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.   She also did stints as a tutor for the SAT, ACT and FCAT writing assessment, an experience that paved the way to her current position with Dollars for Scholars.  Zahner is a native Floridian and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Florida Atlantic University, where she was a Schmidt Presidential Scholar.

 

Lisa Zahner, Executive Directo of 'Dollars for Scholars' to speak at the Teen Writers Workshop in Vero Beach Florida

Dollars for Scholars Executive Director Lisa Zahner (center) with 2008 scholarship recipients Sarah Miller and Marcel Wolff.

Registration is Required: 772-231-2221

Note the new location for the September 6 Teen Writers Workshop.
Click here for directions (pdf file)


Photo highlights from June 21 workshop with poet-rancher Sean Sexton. Sexton showed students a still life he had painted and asked them to write a poem about it. Photo credits: Lauren Allik



Pam Proctor at Book Signing of Points of Light in Saigon Viet Nam
As Hanoi University faculty and students crowd around, Pam signs her book, POINTS OF LIGHT: a Celebration of the American Spirit of Giving, co-authored with artist Thomas Kinkade and featuring a foreword by the first President George Bush (photo by William Proctor).
"We are trying to … start a fire within them to be the best they can be."

Pam Proctor, The Viet Nam News

In May 2007, Pam led a team of six writers to Hanoi, Vietnam, for a week-long series of writing workshops at Hanoi University, the premier university for language study in Vietnam and a growing powerhouse in business education.

The workshops were attended by teachers from the university’s English and business departments, as well as by faculty members from three other universities. The workshops replicated a successful series she led at Hanoi University in 2004 with a team of seven writers, whose work was underwritten in part by a cultural exchange grant from the State of Florida’s Division of Cultural Affairs.

Pam Proctor at Hanoi University

A strategy meeting in the conference room of the President of Hanoi University.



Bill Proctor at Hanoi University Writers Workshop

Things are looking up for Bill Proctor, who takes a peek at a student’s writing sample during a workshop on nonfiction writing.

Pam Proctor lectures at Hanoi University

Pam lectures on journalistic techniques to a class of teachers and top students at Hanoi University (photo by William Proctor).


Viet Nam News, May 15, 2004

Click here to read the Viet Nam News (pdf)

Participants of the Hanoi Writers Workshop


...Read Pam's latest book: The College Hook: Packaging Yourself to Win the College Admissions Game, published by Center Street...

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