The Quill showcases work by the Creative Writing students at Athena’s Academy each semester. Check out our current 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. Read more recent writing by Prof. Suki about teaching creative writing on Substack.
Creative Writing Roundabout!
Glass-coated clay, molded and formed to life with still eyes. Some would say that alive was the wrong word for the clay-skeletoned being. Some would [...]
Hi, I’m Teddy. I’m a 3×3 Rubik’s Cube. Y’know, sometimes other, cooler Rubik’s Cubes (like the 4×4, 17×17, and even the 3×3 MIRROR cube) ask [...]
The clock read 7:21. She was so incredibly tired, but there wasn’t time for that. She pulled her head off the desk. Her nose was [...]
Mara blinked up at the house. It was unlike anything she had come across in her travels among the Moon and Martian colonies. The colonies [...]
Art by Xan Note from Prof. Suki: Xan has been sharing her wonderful art for so many years, and she is now set to graduate. [...]
Context Across the River is a story about a friendly person named Vera who wishes to make sure that their friend Vanya does not suffer [...]
Prologue I’m sure you all know who I am. Or you think you do, anyway. You think I’m Hamlet’s tragic girlfriend, who drowned herself in [...]
A row of color-coded coffin-like boxes, waiting for roll call, will never be touched until the treaty of the other actions are done. So, as [...]
For my whole life I have lived in Chicago, Illinois. I had led a happy life with friends and my sports team. I felt my [...]
In the darkest part of the forest, inside a crooked castle where bats squeaked like broken violins, lived a vampire named Dracula. He was 215 [...]
This is satire. I do not agree with any of the opinions or views I voice in the essay Birds Are Cool and Interesting. Have [...]
Chapter 1: Pilot December twelfth wasn’t supposed to be weird. Not weirder than usual, anyway. Jackson Miller trudged out of bed with sleep still clinging [...]
If you listen, really listen, silence means about the same thing as noise. Head to a bus stop, please, and I’ll explain what I mean. [...]
Chapter 1: The Beginning It was the last day of school and Margaret could not have been more excited. She was ready for a thrilling [...]
Summer WriteWeek 2025 Group Poem Alternative title: 5 people create 5 lines while one guy just talks about sandwiches * I wish I could become [...]
Chapter 1 Larry It was the first day at my new school. Little did I know that it would end up much different than any [...]
Marcello was annoyed, I could tell from the metronome tempo of his foot. 1, 2, 3, 4, and again, 1, 2, 3, 4. We were [...]
Chapter 19 I saw it again that night, just as clearly as before.The bridge, every detail sharp.Her foot on a weakened slat.Step.Wobble.Crack.Livia, tumbling into the [...]
Tungsten paced back and forth, back and forth. Her mother had always told her it was an ugly habit, one more befitting of a shrew [...]
Jack and his sister Jill were orphans who lived together in the countryside on the side of a rough, gravely road. Every day, they went [...]
Chapter One Far away from the riverbank stands a cathedral with shiny round domes. It is white, the details are gold, and the domes and [...]
I hurried up the stairs of the palace to The Pinnacle, Queen Ariadne’s chambers. I was but a messenger delivering, well, a message to her. [...]
Rodnie was moving out of his house and so he held an open house for the possible buyers. Only one humanoid came. (Yes this world [...]
Click here to see all the creative writing courses currently being offered at Athena’s!
