It’s time for young writers (and their teachers!) to sign up for National Novel Writing Month, which begins Nov. 1, 2011. In 2010, 41,000 young writers participated in this fun, free event. They committed to writing an entire novel in one month. Visit the NaNoWriMo website to register, and you will find support, resources, curriculum guides, [...]
By Marcia
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Tagged Figment, nanowrimo, nanowrimo 2011, National Novel Writing Month, Writer Resources
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Si todos los rios son dulces/De donde saca sal el mar? –Pablo Neruda Once there was a little pirate who lived on a ship in the ocean. One morning he got two women to do a job for him. He asked them to spin the salt in a bowl for a [...]
Call for Submissions—High School Writers If you are a teenager currently enrolled in high school, grades 9-12, Crashtest, the new online literary magazine for high school writers, would like to hear from you!Crashtest publishes poetry, stories and creative non-fiction in the form of personal essays, imaginative investigation, experimental interviews, and more. They are looking for [...]
from the Sword of Darrow website: The Sword of Darrow is a young adult fantasy novel written by a father and son team, Hal and Alex Malchow. At the time they began the book, Alex was eight years old, had undiagnosed learning disabilities, and could not read at all. Alex created a set of characters and plot line, and [...]
WITS is looking for 10-12 writers who can teach the joy of creative writing to young people. Employment is part-time, typically 2-6 hours of teaching one day a week from September – May. A yearlong commitment is required; however, writers who are selected to be on the WITS roster are not guaranteed immediate teaching opportunities. The [...]
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High school students, enter to win a $25,000 scholarship to Idyllwild Arts Academy and get published in Parallax Magazine. The deadline is July 15, 2011. For more information, click here.
Want to have some fun? Choose 2 items that are the same color and write a story or poem using both of them. If you need a jump start, read Joe’s story inspired by yellow. Cheez-It and Goldfish Once there was a Cheez-It that met a goldfish. He winked and said, “Hi, good looking.” She [...]
At Writers in the Schools (WITS), we encourage students to use art as inspiration for their writing. Here is a wonderful contest where young people, ages 9-14, choose their favorite Vincent van Gogh painting and write a creative story based on it. Carol Sabbeth, author of several lovely art history books for children, is sponsoring [...]
One popular WITS writing activity for elementary school students is based on Ruth Gendler’s The Book of Qualities. Gendler got the idea for her book when she was a young girl. She made up a story about a store where they sell qualities such as courage, excitement, and joy instead of products such as milk, [...]
This weekend a free writing workshop will be held at HCC, and former WITS luminaries Victoria Jones, Randy Watson, and Tony Diaz will be leading sessions. Here’s the scoop: The Johnny Harris Writers Group Writing Workshop What: Fiction and Poetry workshops Where: HCC Central Campus (rooms TBA) When: Saturday, June 11, 2011, from 8 am [...]
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Tagged dave parsons, free writing workshops, poetry, randy watson, tony diaz, victoria jones, Workshop, Writer Resources
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WITS Writer Ryan Dilbert will launch the tour for his book, Time Crumbling Like a Wet Cracker (No Record Press), on Thursday, May 19, 2011, 7:30 PM at Kaboom Books, located in the Heights at 3116 Houston Ave. In a review of Ryan’s book, Jillian Lauren, author of N.Y. [...]
Yesterday we looked at books written by a father and a son, so today I thought I would inspire you with a mother-daughter duo. Unlike Paul and Sid Fleischman, who achieved individual fame in their writing lives, Traci & P.J. Lambrecht are a mother-daughter team that publishes jointly under the pseudonym P.J. Tracy. The two [...]
What: 2011 Younkin-Rivera Prizes for Young Writers When: Due April 30, 2011 Cost: $5 A nationwide competition for creative writers aged 15-18. Entries accepted during the month of April in the genres of poetry and prose. Prize in each category: $250 and a full tuition scholarship to the 2011 Young Writers Workshop at Southern Illinois [...]
What: WITS Writers Laura Eve Engel, Eric Kocher, and Kent Shaw will close the Gulf Coast Reading Series presented by the University of Houston’s English Department and Brazos Bookstore. Rid your tax-day troubles with a nice helping of literature read by Houston’s finest. When: Friday, April 15, 2011 at 7PM Where: Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet [...]
If you are a teenager currently enrolled in high school, grades 9-12, Crashtest, the new online literary magazine for high school writers, would like to hear from you! the deadline for the inaugural issue is APRIL 15, 2011. Crashtest publishes poetry, stories and creative non-fiction in the form of personal essays, imaginative investigation, experimental interviews, [...]
