Student who would like to participate in writing competitions
Age 13-18
One-on-one and small group (Max. 7 students/class)
Class Introduction
Students from 13 to 18 years old wanting to learn how to shape their written English into effective and publishable creative pieces will find this particular Creative Writing course very exciting.
The class will be shown a range of tools to learn the nuances of controlled, purposeful writing, including figurative language, effective structuring, and specific forms they will apply to their own pieces.
Students will work directly with literary and media texts as they plan and write their own. This class will help students write to purpose and for an audience as they produce pieces for the following competitions: the Bow Seat Ocean Awareness contest, the NY Times Summer Reading competition, and The Foyle Young Poet’s of the Year Award. The students will produce three fully-polished pieces built around the requirements of the competitions.
We now have class options for July Class(Class A and B) and August Class.
Competitions
July Classes will prepare students for:
- Foyle Young Poets Competition
- New York Times Summer Reading Contest
August Classes will prepare students for:
- Write the World Flash Fiction Competition
- New York Times Summer Reading Contest
Competition Deadlines:
Foyle Young Poets Competition, July 31, 2024.
NY Times Summer Reading Contest, runs from June 9 to August 18. Students can submit weekly.
Write the World Flash Fiction Competition, runs from August 07 to August 22.
Feedback
Students and their parents will receive brief feedback after each class, regarding the student’s general participation in class. Students will also receive feedback on graded assignments via email. Individual writing assignments will receive continual and extensive on-text feedback from teacher as well as peer feedback.
Schedule
10 group classes, 2 hours each, 20 hours in total
Need to prepare?
To best prepare for this program, we recommend reading:
