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Online Creative Writing Programme (Ages 9-11) – April 23

April 7, 2023, 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm

₹15,000

REGISTRATIONS ARE CLOSED FOR THIS WRITING PROGRAMME. The next edition of this writing programme will be held from October to December 2023. Keep an eye on my Workshop Calendar to stay updated! If you would like to receive email notifications about my programmes, please fill this form. 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 one is 12 weeks long and comprises twelve online interactions and access to a private, secure forum, where participants share work and provide feedback to one another. 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 in the past. During the April 2022 edition, we created an e-zine for the first time, and it was such a rewarding experience that it will be a regular feature of my writing programmes henceforth. Take a look at the first issue here and the second one here.

To create the third issue of our e-zine, here are a few things we will work on.

  • Poetry – I love working on poetry at my writing programmes (take a look at this to learn why). The participants wrote several excellent poems during the last edition! Here’s just one example:

    This time, we’ll work on more experimental poetry, like shape poetry, list poems and rebuses.
  • Nonfiction – What do we feel strongly about? In issue 1 of WORDS, we wrote speeches on the subject This, I believe. This time, we’ll work on debates, amusing letters and more.
  • Stories – How many of us have drawers full of incomplete stories? During the fiction module, we’ll look at plotting, write mystery stories, and attempt to find our own unique voices.

Details

Dates: 7 April to 23 June 2023

Online interactions: Fridays, 4:15-5:15pm

Age-group: 9-11 years

Early Bird Fee: ₹15,000 (valid until 20 March)

Fee: ₹15,000

Buddy Fee: ₹12,500 Only one seat left!

How to register:

REGISTRATIONS ARE CLOSED FOR THIS WRITING PROGRAMME. The next edition of this writing programme will be held from October to December 2023. Keep an eye on my Workshop Calendar to stay updated! If you would like to receive email notifications about my programmes, please fill this form. Alternatively, follow me on social media – Facebook, Instagram and Twitter – for regular updates.