Images and imagination!
A picture suggests a thousand words and many different stories! Some of students’ favorite pieces this semester began from photo prompts during our webinars. The […]
Year: 2023
Writing from WriteNOW poets!
Students found inspiration for poetry all around them- lines or phrases from a poem discussed in the webinar, elements of nature, or everyday things they […]
“The Enchanted Orange Tree” by Julien M.
Six-year-old Lily lay on the ground with her favorite fairy tale book, The Enchanted Orange Tree, leaves scattered all around her. She had seen it at […]
“Merry-go-round” by Zoe P.
The abandoned carnival was so silent you could hear a pin drop, if not for the sloshing waves before me. The blue water was calling […]
Sparks of stories from WriteNOW Workshop!
In WriteNOW Workshop, one way we prepare to write during webinars is by generating ideas together. In a first class session, students created titles and […]
Story starts from fall webinars!
It’s exciting to see students generate ideas in class that become stories, and to notice how each student’s unique voice and style are expressed each […]
“Broken Earth,” by Joshua the Carnotaurus King
Chapter 1 Rory had a curse. Some would call it a power, but his mom called it a curse, and what his mom said, went. […]
“Nowhereville” by Evan B.
Chapter 1: The Wormhole Welcome to America – I mean Nowhereville – where nothing interesting ever happens and everything is forever the same. I am […]
“Lady Werfenshire’s Great Academy for Troubled Youth” by Noah
When my parents said they were sending me to boarding school, they must have meant military school. Or psycho’s school. Or maybe even Masochism Mansion. […]
“The Candle” by Juli A.
Prologue A flame feebly glowed in the distance. It wasn’t very bright at all, nor was the flame strong. It couldn’t handle wind or rain, […]