An open-ended creative writing workshop that permits students to discover their own voices and encourages them to experiment with language, form and genre.

Grades: 7 - 8

"Spoken Word" - a workshop that focuses on poetry, its variety and its resurgence in the form of hip-hop, "spoken word" performance poetry. Participants are exposed to a wide variety of poetry and are engaged in a variety of exercises that stimulate the imagination and foster word-play.

Grades: 9 - 12

Each participating student will be a writer for a day of interactive, thematic, real-world writing situations to "hook" the imagination and/or memories of the young to the wonder and power of the written word. Theme for May 2010 is "Dispatches From the Front": Writing from and through the Civil War.

Grade: 5