The Quill showcases work by the Creative Writing students at Athena’s Academy each semester. Check out our Fall, 2024 issue now!
Creative Writing Courses:
Each semester, instructors at Athena’s offer a variety of creative writing courses. From poetry to fiction, in-class writing to self-publishing a novel, our courses reflect the variety of interests and skill levels of our students. Our courses are multi-age, and integrate writers from beginning to advanced. Click here to see Athena’s current course offerings.
Why Creative Writing?
Creative writing is like that “spoonful of sugar” that makes the medicine go down. Students learn most of the skills they need to be good writers of academic work through pleasure and creativity. If you’d like to read more about this approach, read Prof. Suki’s series on teaching writing.
Creative Writing Roundabout!
I don’t think I was fully awake when the thing crashed in my yard. The noise came first, a trembling so loud the posters taped [...]
You stand outside staring at a quite unusual wooden and metal door with strange markings all around it. Its features appear to not be from [...]
This is an excerpt from a story I’m working on, titled In a Kingdom of Crystal. The story takes place in the kingdom of Eldoria, [...]
The clouds trudge across the sky like workers walking home. Light from the window falls onto the floor, heating the gray cat on the floor. [...]
For as long as I’ve existed, I have run a mask shop. It isn’t a very good mask shop. Oh, my wares blend in well [...]
OFFICIAL ALLIED SYSTEMS HISTORY BOOK # LXXXIX: (EARTH) PRE-SELF IMPOSED EXILE / POST WORLD PLAGUE SOCIETY CHAPTER XXVIII SECTION ३: Orionisians Arrive! While Delta Scorpii [...]
In WriteNOW webinars, writing begins from a phrase, an image, or even a sound! These short pieces of spontaneous writing often inspire writers (and their [...]
Goddess Silhouette Steal the light, the earth, and seaForce the power onto meScream my name with growing hasteCrush my heart and leave no trace Light [...]
CHAPTER ONE I walked into the library. The librarian was ecstatic to see me. I don’t come very often. I had only come today because [...]
Henry the Dog: The Cat Catastrophe Chapter 15 Change of Plans My jaw drops open in total astonished silence. Could Jingles or Patricia have possibly [...]
A Tale Of Imagination Once upon a time, in a hidden forest far, far away, its location lost to time, there was a Storyteller. The [...]
“Adara the Fire Elemental” by Abby K. By Xan By Camden Bac “George” by Stella Joy W. “Fakemon” by Julien M. Marblock The Column Pokémon [...]
Click here to see all the creative writing courses currently being offered at Athena’s!
