Class Description
Calling all writers! Camp NaNoWriMo is coming! Embrace the spring season of new beginnings and join the virtual writing retreat that helps you create space to work on any writing project for thirty days.
While November’s NaNoWriMo is devoted to the novel, Camp NaNoWriMo is about spending the month of April working on ANY writing project. Want to revise that novel? Work on a chapbook? Try writing short stories or creative nonfiction? Have NO IDEA what you want to write but want to go for it anyway and see where your creative storytelling brain takes you? Then this is the class for you!
We will spend the afternoon writing generatively, brainstorming, and sharing our project focus for April. We’ll also create word count goals (anything from 100 words a day to 50,000 words in 30 days – you decide!). Basically, this class is about setting up the things we need to embark on successful projects. Writing notebooks will be available, but feel free to bring your own. For writers age 13 - 18 ONLY.
Join GrubStreet’s Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP), a FREE creative writing workshop for Boston-area high schoolers. Our students come from a wide variety of high schools in the Boston area and enjoy cool writing exercises, mingling with fellow young writers, snacks, and an optional open mic. After four great years, YAWP has already been recognized by the Boston Globe as Boston's hub for writing teenagers. You must be 13-18 years to register.
Parents/guardians must also complete this permission form online before the start of the class.
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If you are registering on behalf of your teen, add their email information in the “For a Friend or Child?” field on the right-hand side of the screen before you check out. This will send them a direct link and reminder to create their own profile with GrubStreet.
(After adding the class to your cart, click "Checkout" and click “Add” next to “For a Friend or Child?” on the right-hand side to fill in their email. This is an easy way of linking the class to your child and encourages them to create their own account.)
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
For more detailed information about GrubStreet scholarships, including how to contribute to scholarship funds for other students, click here.
This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. After registering, a yellow Resources tab will appear in this section containing a link to join class. Please note that you will need to be logged into view the Resources tab.
Zoom Participation:
In our experience, the intimate nature of a writing workshop benefits from on-camera participation. Students are of course welcome to turn their camera off whenever they need to, but it is a community norm for cameras to be on most of the time. You can learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
You can enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting by clicking the CC button at the bottom of the screen. If you'd like to access the transcript after class, please make sure to let your instructor ahead of time that you'd like a copy.