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Online Creative Writing Programme (Ages 12-14) – April 24 – NEW BATCH!
May 8, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
₹15,000
REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR THIS PROGRAMME.
The next writing programme for ages 12 to 14 will be held in October 2024. Join my mailing list if you would like to receive email notifications about my programmes. Alternatively, follow me on social media – Facebook, Instagram and Twitter – for regular updates.
My writing courses are conducted just twice a year – in April and in October. Each course is 12 weeks long and comprises twelve online interactions and access to a private, secure forum, where participants share work and read one another’s work. I provide feedback each time a participant submits something on the forum, and I encourage the children to rewrite and edit until their work reaches its best potential. In this sense, it is an intensive programme that requires participants to log in multiple times a week, write regularly and share relevant ideas and opinions on the forum.
If I have a minimum of four participants for each batch, I also organise up to three guest sessions, which are open to non-participants on payment of a registration fee, but free for those who are part of my writing programmes. Take a look at the three guest sessions I organised during the previous edition of the creative writing programme:
Outline
In the past, we’ve worked with poetry, drama, nonfiction and stories. During the April 2022 edition, we created an e-magazine (WORDS) for the first time, and it was such a rewarding experience that it has become a regular feature of my writing programmes. You can download all the previous issues!
As you will see, we have a range of poems, stories, plays, memes, puzzles, and more!
While the details of my writing programmes for ages 9-11 and ages 12-14 differ, the overall structure is the same. In this way, the content of the e-magazine has similar overarching themes.
To create the July 2024 issue of WORDS, here are a few things we will work on.
- Poetry – Yes, we always begin with poetry. Poetry lets writers begin gently without the pressure of completing a long, complex work that would typically require more of a time commitment. (Read about why I love teaching poetry!) During the first three weeks of the April 2024 edition of my writing programme, we’ll explore a few more forms of poetry–both familiar and unfamiliar. We’ll work with limericks and rhyming verse, as well as nonsense verse and other forms.
- Drama – It’s been over a year since I taught a drama module at my writing programme, so it’s time to come back to it and explore it some more. Theatre-related activities are always fun, and activities will lead the way as we explore speeches, dialogue and more.
- Stories – Often, what I plan for the fiction module is quite different from what I end up doing because I love to focus on what interests the participants in any given batch. This time, I’m keen on exploring our relationship with AI in multiple ways–perhaps both through poetry and through stories. What do we imagine is the future of AI? How can we write science fiction based on what we know now?
Details
Dates: 3 April to 19 June 2024
Online interactions: Wednesdays, 4:30-5:30 pm
Age-group: 12-14 years
Early Bird Fee: ₹13,500
Fee: ₹15,000
Buddy Fee: ₹12,500 (for pair/group registrations, applicable across programmes)
How to register:
REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR THIS PROGRAMME.
The next writing programme for ages 12 to 14 will be held in October 2024.
The next writing programme for ages 12 to 14 will be held in October 2024. Join my mailing list if you would like to receive email notifications about my programmes. Alternatively, follow me on social media – Facebook, Instagram and Twitter – for regular updates.