Designed for
Student who would like to participate in writing competitions
Level
Age 13-18
Class format
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 2023 July Class: Class A and B.
Competitions
2023 July Classes will prepare students for:
- Foyle Young Poets Competition
- New York Times Summer Reading Contest
Competition Deadlines:
NY Times Summer Reading Contest, runs from June 9th to August 18th. Students can submit weekly.
Foyles Young Poets Competition, July 31, 2023.
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. At the end of the course, the student will receive a final report card, which thoroughly speaks to their overall participation in the course, including major assignments.
Schedule
6 group classes, 2 hours each; 4 one-on-one classes, 1 hour each; 16 hours in total
Need to prepare?
To best prepare for this program, we recommend reading:
