Themed Creative Writing Workshops
Our Themed Creative Writing Workshops draw on a vast library of resources and professional mentor experience to cover one of the below genre or techniques. BOOK BELOW.
Short Story Writing Workshop
Once up a time…. The End! Short stories are great fun and fantastic to hone our kids creative writing skills. In this workshop we nut out a short story, learning about the essential elements a short story must have, and some techniques and tricks our writing children can employ. Many choose to do this workshop with a Short Story competition in mind, and we polish up to perfection their piece of writing for entry. Once you’ve learnt the ins and outs of short story writing you’ll soon find yourself with a book’s worth!
The Write A Book Workshop is great for all ages. This interactive, fun workshop helps plan a whole chapter book, specific to your child’s idea. Learn all about how a full length work of fiction is structured – and plan your specific imaginative idea out at the same time. Write a Book is our most popular workshop and a great place to begin a writing journey. We can encourage role play, drawing and of course creative writing. This workshop is designed to go at the writer’s own pace, and get creative in the ways that suit them best. By the end of this workshop, the writer will have an idea for a book and a fully formed chapter plan from which they can write their first (or second or third!) novel.
Drop through the portal into the realm of writing about magic, other-worlds, imaginative characters and good and evil, in this personalised workshop on the popular genre of Fantasy. We look at the Twelve Step Heroes Journey, or Monomyth, using Star Wars, Moana, or your favourite fantasy as our inspiration. Each step is carefully explained, then we work your book idea into the genre structure, as you write your own Heroes Journey. By the end you will have the whole story mapped out, from which the writer can write their first (or second or third!) novel!
Such a Famous Blogger!
Write all day, all month, all year on what you love! Blogging is a great way to get your writing work out to the world and receive feedback from peers, family and the wider world if you choose. In this workshop we will learn what to write about as a blogging topic, and the mechanics of blogging – length, frequency, “voice” and images. Very important is how to nurture your blogging “voice” – the ultimate skill every writer should develop. There is also an opportunity to be a Guest Blogger on A Way With Words!
Journo For A Day Workshop
Does your child have a passion for a particular hobby, sport, music, movies, or arts subject? The best job in the world is to write about your passion! In this Workshop we learn how to take our passion and write in a journalistic style. We cover how to research a story, and what a news angle is and how to discover one. Send us your football reporters, ballet buffs, fashionista’s and movie-mad kids and we will have a blast learning all about how to be a Journo For A Day!
Wham Bam Poetry Slam!
Bring your BIG IDEAS, your cool kid hat and we’ll raise the roof with our Slams!
Take your passion for the people, a place, a thing,
Bring along that ‘ring-a-ding-ding’
Let’s put the words on the page,
Make it sage, without rage, let’s engage;
Join us in the Poetry Slam, build the jam,
Wham, bam, and see you then, man.
