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Why Write?: Lisa Allen Agostini at TEDxYouth@QueensParkSavannah

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Lisa Allen-Agostini is a writer and journalist from Trinidad and Tobago. She is the author of the young adult novel The Chalice Project (Macmillan Caribbean, 2008)
and co-editor of Trinidad Noir (Akashic Books, 2008), an anthology of crime fiction set in Trinidad. The mother of two girls, she writes for young women at her blog Dawtah. In 2009 she founded The Allen Prize for Young Writers, an NGO. Its aim is to improve writing in Trinidad & Tobago by giving prizes, seminars and workshops to teen writers, and publishing their works. It began its inaugural programme in September, 2010.

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