Read All About It!

Young Voices, no. 7.1, is out! Click, and settle down for a good read.

You'll learn all about what students in SELI's Young Writers clubs have written in their twice-weekly writing workshops. The members of our nine writing clubs all have copies, and are reading them, too. This girl is in REC Primary School, Bassa Town (near Waterloo).

Our children are learning to express themselves in English, which is not easy for them. Your comments, or feedback, are welcome.

Young Voices 6.2

Enjoy reading the latest issue (6.2) of the newsletter of SELI's Young Writers clubs, Young Voices. All the children write about their true personal experiences, so you get an idea of what their lives are like as you read. All live in rural areas, some close to the capital city and some very far from it.

We welcome your comments!

Photos from Kabala

Usually, the photos I have of our SELI Young Writers clubs are the ones I've taken when I visit the school. Sometimes we get photos from the facilitators themselves, instead. Take a look!

These were just sent by Alieu S. Kanu from one of their Kabala Junior Secondary School meetings last week. This young boy is revising his draft after getting feedback in a content conference, and the girl in front of him is reading the latest issue of the Young Voices newsletter in which selected pieces of writing appear from all the schools where we have clubs.

The second photo shows a content conference. Usually, each author reads his or her work aloud for the others to listen to and comment on. This author must have had trouble getting everyone to understand what he was reading, so he is showing the text as he reads.

These students go home after school to eat and do some chores, and then return for the club meeting (no longer in their school uniforms). I love everyone's total absorption in writing, and the dreamy atmosphere of these photos, showing everyone in a cloud of learning! 

Young Voices Newsletter Issue 6.1

The newest issue of the Young Voices newsletter, issue 6.1, is out, and you can read it here!

This newsletter is one of the ways the Seli River Writing Project publishes student work. Copies are given to each member of its SELI Young Writers clubs. The students would love to hear your feedback on their writing. Check it out today!

Young Voices Issue no. 5.1

A new issue of the Young Voices newsletter is out! You can read yours here: be sure not to miss out!

Students publish their club writing by reading their typed final drafts to friends and relatives, or by displaying them in the school, but some students' final drafts are published in this newsletter. Individual print copies are given to all the members of all the clubs, and the students eagerly look forward to each new issue! We hope you do, too.

Young Voices 4.1

Young Voices 4.1 is out! Click here to join these students sauntering home from Kabala Junior Secondary School reading their newsletters! 

Young Voices 3.2

The June 2013 issue of Young Voices newsletter is out! You can now read more of our young authors' writing, and learn more of what's going on in the Seli River Writing Project. Great news!

Read all four pages of the newsletter by clicking on this link .

Young Voices 3.1

The four-page March 2013 issue of Young Voices newsletter is out!  Read here what members of Young Writers clubs in rural schools on the Freetown peninsula and in the Koinadugu District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone have to say about things that have happened to them.

Young Voices 2.1

Find out what all the SLWP Young Writers clubs are doing by reading the latest edition of Young Voices here:

Young Voices

The Young Writers Club has started publishing a newsletter! Young Voices will have a different theme in each issue.

Fire is the theme of Volume I, Issue 1, dated March, 2009. Read it here! Of the final drafts our Young Writers have produced so far, four were about personal experiences with fires and the sorrow they cause. Our club says, fires matter! Take care to avoid them!