FREE WRITING CLASS FOR TEACHERS!
"Creating the Write Habit"
With special guest presenter Angela Fountas
June 3, 5 - 7 p.m. at the Richard Hugo House
The only way to grow as a writer, and a great way to grow as a writing teacher, is to sit down and write. The hard part is the sitting down. In this workshop we’ll talk
about ways to create a writing habit that is easy to sustain — and fun! We’ll also do a number of writing exercises that you can carry over into the summer months and the school year, and that you can use with your students too. This workshop is
appropriate for teachers of all grade levels, and the writing exercises are designed to inspire short fictions, prose poems or mini essays.
Angela Jane Fountas writes, teaches and runs a Web site for writers called WriteHabit.org. She is also a volunteer at 826 Seattle. Her work has appeared in Quick Fiction, Sentence, Diagram, Syntax, and elsewhere. She recently received grants from 4Culture and the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs in Seattle and was a 2006 Jack Straw Writer. Angela is working on a short story collection and is the editor of the anthology “Waking Up American” (Seal Press, 2005).
This class is sponsored by Powerful Writers and Richard Hugo House. It is FREE to all and takes place at:
Richard Hugo House
1634 11th Ave.
RSVP to arni@powerfulschools.
Powerful Writers, a program of the nonprofit Powerful Schools, brings in-class professional development in writing instruction to southeast Seattle public elementary schools.
Richard Hugo House is a home for writers and readers. Our mission is to provide
writers of all ages and backgrounds with the resources they need, connect
audiences with the world of writing, foster the creation of new work and promote
the literary arts as a vital part of our culture.