Creative Writing Successes!
We are THRILLED to announce that the achievements of THREE of our Creative Writing students have been recognised in competitions and with publication! One of our young writers has had a short story accepted for publication in Stone Soup magazine and another will see her work published by ‘Kids Write 4 Kids’. Meanwhile, we learned today that a third writing student was a finalist for The New York Times’ student ‘Open Letter’ competition. Congratulations to [...]
Why Do We Write??
Our ‘Short Story Creation’ camp is now well underway at the Centauri Arts Academy! We began by asking ourselves why we write, and the ‘tools’ we use to inspire our creative writing. All campers created statements exploring the reasons why they write, and used these to create a personal list poem in which every line began “I write with…”. Writers shared their favourite lines with a partner, who also helped them edit the lines for [...]
