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 that they will apply to their own pieces.
Students will work directly with both 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, 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.
Taught by: The instructor is an English teacher at Deerfield Academy and an award-winning writing competition coach. Students have earned numerous awards from renowned contests such as Ocean Awareness, Scholastic, and River of Words. Over 50% of students win awards each year, and some have their work published in the Concord Review, which has an acceptance rate of just 5%.
Competitions
- Ocean Awareness Contest
- Foyle Young Poets Competition
- New York Times Summer Reading Contest
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
4 group classes, 1.5 hours each; 4 one-on-class classes, 1 hour each; 10 hours in total
