Shout Mouse Press Inc

Writing workshops serve as the first step for shout mouse press authors. All book projects commencing begin with a non-profit program partner, who recruits young writers from their community. Our non-profit program partners are carefully chosen and serve communities whose identities are underrepresented as characters and creators within young peoples literature. All workshops and one-on-one writing mentorships are run by professional teaching artists, many of whom share identities and lived experiences withour authors. During workshops, youth are coached to write mission-driven books in a variety of genres. We pass the pen to those who can best represent themselves and their communities with authenticity, knowledge, and understanding.

Our author talks program is one of two post-publication leadership opportunities for all shout mouse authors. Our authors are routinely invited to serve as guest speakers in school, university, community, and literary spaces as a way to address community issues on which they are truly experts but are rarely consulted. We provide training for these public speaking engagements, as well as transportation and honoraria for all authors.