How will you tell your story?
Learn from professionals, including how to be published!
Summer Intensive: Creative Writing Sampler
Week 1 (July 31- August 4): novels, short story, biography, personal narrative
Week 2 (August 7 - 11): screenplays, plays, podcast, poetry, song lyrics
Both weeks from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm
Early bird registration ends July 1. Tuition $125 for one week, $220 for two weeks. After July 1: $150 for one week; $250 for two weeks. (Tuition includes snack, but not lunch.) Programming will take place at St. Croix Preparatory Academy, 4620 Stagecoach Trail N, Stillwater, MN.
Join experienced writing instructors, professional screenwriters and poets, and published young adult authors like Jacqueline West, Anne Greenwood Brown and Jane Fredericksen as they explore writing fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama with students. Illustrations, graphic novels and comics will also be featured. Week I will consider fiction (novel and short-story including historical, sci-fi/fantasy and adventure) and non-fiction (biography, memoir, and topical). Week 2 will provide an overview of drama (plays, screenplays and audio scripts) and poetry (spoken word, rap/lyrics, classical forms). Students can take one week or both.
Authors, screenwriters, poets, filmmakers, creative professionals lead the learning
Creative Writing Intensive with amazing authors!
Anne Greenwood Brown
Girl Last Seen and the Lies Beneath trilogy. Anne is also a contributing writer to Author in Progress, a writing "craft" book soon to be released by Writer's Digest.
Jacqueline West
Jane Fredericksen
Want to be published? Read your work on the Radio? Be on a podcast?
First issue of the Boom Site now available!
The first issue of The Boom Site is now available digitally!!! Subscribe today to receive your copy of the St. Croix Valley's first youth led literary publication. Published three times a year digitally and once a year as a printed anthology, The Boom Site aims to offer a safe space for students to submit their prose, poetry and visual arts creative endeavors to be enjoyed by fellow peers and community members.
This writing intensive is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
The #HUSHpodcast Experience: Live at the Phipps
Thursday, July 27, 7:00 PM
Live performance and recording of
HUSH, HUSH Jr and Shush! - including
Native American Music and Dance
at The Phipps Center for the Arts
Andy's parents - gone. Her grandma: missing. And now Gracie - kidnapped. Worlds are being destroyed and tensions are high between the friends. How did it all begin? Listen in to the first eight episodes of the HUSH podcast series on iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music, or find us online on The Shire's website. See the finale performed live at the Phipps, and help us launch two new podcasts with HUSH Jr and Shush!
Contact steph@theshireonline.com for more details.
This project received funding from the St. Croix Valley Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin.
St. Croix Valley Foundation
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council
Project Boom Site is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Kowalski's Markets
The Shire: A cultural project of StoryArk
StoryArk is a 501c(3) tax exempt organization that seeks to serve the greater good.
Email: steph@theshireonline.com
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Location: Stillwater, MN, United States
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