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Teen Writer's Workshop
Fall 2015: Announcing an 8-week creative writing workshop for ages 14-18 led by a local author and teacher. http://amybmair.com/teen-writers
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: The Teen Writing Workshop is an eight-week intensive creative writing workshop for students ages 14-18. In a student-centered coffeehouse setting, and working in any genre they choose, students will be challenged to set and reach their own writing goals, accept critiques, revise thoroughly and work toward project/scene/chapter completion. In addition to lessons arising naturally from the writing produced from the group, workshops will provide explicit craft lessons on plot, narrative arc, scenes, point of view, conflict, character, voice and more. Guidance will also be provided for students looking to have their work published or performed.
WORKSHOP STRUCTURE: Fostering creativity and self-expression in a supportive, challenging atmosphere, the workshop follows the read-and-critique format used by working adult authors. After an introductory first session, we will workshop two student pieces each week. Every student will be expected to submit two pieces, up to twenty pages each, to be workshopped by the group. Writing must be completed outside of class and submitted one week ahead of time. Every student is expected to read each piece and prepare thoughtful feedback for the group critique. The goal is to discover and nurture each student’s individual gifts as a writer and provide positive, holistic (big picture) feedback to help make each story come to life.The workshop will meet for ninety minutes once a week. Food and drinks are welcome.
FALL 2015 SCHEDULE: Tuesdays 5-6:30 pm Sept 15-Nov 10 (No class Oct 20)
Class meets in Encinitas
Cost: $350/ 8-week session.
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ABOUT AMY: A teacher and a writer, Amy B Mair was first published as a teen in a national poetry magazine and won her high school Bad Hemingway Contest. After graduating from Colgate University with a degree in English Literature, Amy returned to California to obtain her teaching credential at the University of San Diego. For the past fifteen years she has taught in a variety of settings, most recently facilitating the Tip Top Writers Critique Group and teaching the Del Mar Heights Storytellers Club. She has workshopped her own novels through the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, the Big Sur Writers Workshop and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). She is represented by Caryn Wiseman at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
