Individuals are not graded, but are encouraged, nurtured, and invited to explore their own styles of writing. Students are grouped by age and , if possible, by interests. Classes will be divided into fiction, poetry, science fiction, creative nonfiction, and play writing, if available. Students will take classes in two of these four forms. Classes last 65 minutes with a 15 minute refreshment break.
Supervision is provided at all times.
Published creative writers from Wake County who come from area colleges, including NCSU, and free-lance writers. The last day of the workshop, June 29, is a celebration of our participants' work. A guest reader will read from a published work and answer questions any of the participants might have about writing as a profession. Workshop students will read from their best work as well. All participants will receive an anthology which contains examples of everyone's best work produced during the two weeks.