Podium Live! puts high school literary talent on display

Richmond Public Schools high school students will be part of Podium Live!, a free performance and staged reading of the Podium Journal: Volume 2 at Dogwood Dell on Sunday, June 13 starting at 8PM. Come out and pick up your copy of the 2010 Podium Journal before it’s distributed in libraries, grocery stores, and bookstores throughout the city of Richmond.

Entering its second year, the Podium journal puts on citywide display the creative, non-fiction, and artistic work of RPS high school students. The works are created in classrooms across the city, and outside of class by the students themselves in five categories: short fiction, short memoir, op/ed, poetry, and illustration. [...] A student design team works with the VCU Brand Center to create the final look of the 4-color journal. The 100-120 page journal is published and distributed at no cost to all city high schools, and over fifteen thousand free copies are placed into the community.