Resources
Resources For Digital Artists
Free Digital Animation Software
Free Digital Photo Editing Software
Best FREE Animation Software
With most modern animations being created digitally, there is a continual growth in demand for easy-to-use software allowing anyone to make their own animation creations. If you are taking our summer animation or digital art programs, or our year-round virtual classes in digital art and animation, you may be interested in this [...]
Best FREE Photo Editing Software
If you love photography, or taking photography workshops such as the ones offered through Centauri Arts, you will be aware of some of the great FREE and open source photo editing software options. Whether you are a teenager looking for photography camps, or a student hoping to take our photography and [...]
Top 5 Free and Open-Source Animation Software Tools
Animation, and animation classes, are hugely popular with teenagers these days: bringing digital artwork to life on the screen can be riveting! Deciding which animation software to use, however, can be tough - especially if you are on a budget. To help you, we’ve assembled a list of some of the [...]
Resources For Film-Makers
Free Video Editing Software
Openshot Video Editing Software
Handbrake Video Compression & Transcoding Software
Free Sound Effects
American University Free Sound Effects Collection
Film Education
Resources For Writers
Free Creative Writing Resources
The Box (Free recorded workshop)
https://stonesoup.com/
This is a magazine that accepts submissions from writers aged 9-13
https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/teens/young-voices/
Toronto Library’s ‘Young Voices’ magazine accepts submissions from Toronto-area writers and artists.
https://thewalrus.ca/amazon-first-novel-award-youth/
Amazon Canada runs an annual creative writing competition for young writers aged 13-17
https://www.canadian-universities.net/Universities/Programs/Creative_Writing-Ontario.html
Are you interested in studying creative writing at university or college? Check out this list of programs in Ontario!
https://www.youthofcanada.ca/contests
This is a useful list of creative writing and fine art competitions across Canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/a-guide-to-writing-prizes-for-young-canadians-1.5100604
This is another list of creative writing competitions across the country.
10 Great Resources for Young Writers
It isn’t always easy for young writers to find places to submit their work, so we've collected together competitions, magazines and online publications to which teenage writers (and tween writers) can submit their poetry and short fiction. A fun fact: young writers at the Centauri Arts Academy have been published in [...]
Read Books by Centauri-Connected Authors!
Over the years, Centauri Arts has worked with dozens of authors. Many of them have taught for us, offered guest classes, or advised our young writers. Others are parents who have sent their kids to our overnight arts camp – or writers who attended our programs as children. Here’s a selection [...]
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 [...]
