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TeenWriter Tuesday: Teen Playwright’s Debut
During her junior year in high school, Emma Q. Baxter wrote a coming-of-age comedy for the Paula Vogel Mentors Project, a fellowship program run by Philadelphia Young Playwrights. The project pairs...
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Fun Friday: 4th Graders, Families and Teachers Get FREE Admission to National...
Pueblos Explore ancient dwellings! FREE Waterfalls See a waterfall taller than a building! FREE Fourth graders, take your family along! Teachers, download activity guides and send your whole...
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Monday Advice from Editors and Agents: Three Tips for the Price of One
Today’s three tips provide some dead-on great advice about Your VOICE PITCHing your book STRIKING THE HEART of your reader The advice comes from Chris Keeslar, who’s been a leading industry...
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TeenWriter: The #WeWriteBooks Contest is almost here!
I just found out about this and couldn’t wait for TeenWriter Tuesday to tell you! The #WeWriteBooks Contest will open NEXT WEDNESDAY, September 14. Submissions may be made from September 14 through...
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TeenWriter Tuesday: Making It Work as a Writer While You’re Still in School
Wisconsin teenager Amy Zhang played tennis after school. She went out with friends and did homework. She also wrote a book. A very good book called Falling Into Place. She was 16 when she found an...
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Monday Advice from Editors and Agents: A Pleasure Principle
Mashable is a global, multi-platform online media and entertainment “magazine” with tech, digital culture and entertainment content. If you have unlimited time to browse its ginormous daily content,...
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Teen Tuesday: Are you funny?
“I know one 18-year-old high school senior in Attleboro, Massachusetts, who is so funny!” “How funny is she?” “She’s so funny, she got a free-lance gig writing jokes for Saturday Night Live!” Ally...
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Backstory: Putting your world in context
Context = Clue Context gives us clues to the meaning of an unfamiliar word, the emotion behind a friend’s reaction, the point of a political slogan. The word “flag” can call several images to mind. But...
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Teen Tuesday: the Art.Write.Now.Tour
The 2016 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards reported a record-breaking 320,000 works submitted for judging at the regional level. From the award winners, the Art.Write.Now.Tour was curated by Johanna...
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WRITER RESOURCES: Forty-One Sounds of Laughter?!?
I’m absolutely chortling over a website I just discovered. It’s called Written Sound (www.writtensound.com). This website for writers provides an onomatopoeia dictionary, complete with nuanced...
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