Publications
Self-Publishing
Freshman writers at Durham School of the Arts, a public arts magnet school in North Carolina, share the stories of their teenage lives in these wide-ranging collections of short memoirs. Originally written for a class project, the memoirs were edited by students Kaitlin Medlin, Joanna Ehrisman, and staff and supervised by teacher Alexa Garvoille. Covering topics from the power of the arts to the effects of abuse, from journeys of faith to chronicles of friendship, Going on 15: Memoirs of Freshmen and Other People + Me: Memoirs of Freshmen remind adult and teen readers alike to look beyond the friends, the classmates, the students, or the children we think we know, and listen to their voices.
Going on 15 now available at The Regulator Bookshop! Support DSA and local business for only $16.
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Click here to order Going on 15: Memoirs of Freshmen, the collection of memoirs written by the class of 2013, or Other People + Me, written by the class of 2014, from Lulu.com for $16 or $20.
Press
“Enhancing Wikipedia–and Learning.” Blog by Cathy Davidson in the Durham Herald-Sun about DSA students writing Wikipedia pages in 2010.
Going on 15 at Strong Durham Schools. November 2010
“Book speaks language of today’s 14 year-olds,” Matthew Milliken for The Durham News. May 15, 2011.
“Lives go literary,” Matthew Milliken for The Durham News. May 15, 2011.
“Judging a book by its teen authors,” Melody Guyton Butts for The Durham Herald Sun. May 15, 2011.
“The secret lives of teenagers,” Alexis McKenney, Joanna Ehrisman, Georgia Marion-Spencer, Diana Honeycutt, and Alethia Orbih, guest columnists for The Durham News. September 28, 2011.
“Students write memoir,” Matt Phillips for The NCCU Campus Echo. October 6, 2011.
