Do you have a son or daughter who likes to write? The Cape Cod Writers Center announces applications are now available for the “ Tomorrow’s Writers Today” (TWT) workshop for local student fiction writers ages 13-18 on Saturday, May 14, 2011.
This workshop, which takes place at the Barnstable Intermediate School on Route 28 in Hyannis, is the second of the tuition-free Saturday sessions offered by the Writers Center this spring. An extension of the Center’s 25-year old Young Writers program held during the Center’s summer conference, TWT offers Cape Cod students an opportunity to work with prominent authors to improve their writing, enhance literary skills and learn about the publishing industry. A free box lunch is provided for all who attend.
“We were thrilled by the students’ enthusiastic response to our first TWT program on March 26 and expect that the May 14 workshop will be equally popular, since many students enjoy writing fiction,” said Nancy Rubin Stuart, Artistic Director of the Cape Cod Writers Center.
Students who attend the Saturday, May 14 program, will study with writer/teacher/editor Anne Sanow and author Heidi Jon Schmidt. Ms. Sanow ‘s story collection Triple Time recently won the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award for Fiction and received a 2010 literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Ms. Schmidt is the author of The House on Oyster Creek and three other novels. Her work has been published in “The Atlantic”, “The New York Times” and anthologized in The O’Henry Awards, Best American Nonrequired Reading,
The TWT program is funded in part by the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust, the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, the Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation, the Cape Cod Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. For questions, please email writers@capecodwriterscenter.org or call (508) 420-0200. Please find the application posted below:
Application: Tomorrow’s Writers Today
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A free box-lunch is included in the program. Choose either: Chicken wrap ______ or
Vegetarian Wrap ________. Both include potato chips, pickle and a cold drink.
Please attach a sample of your best work, 500-1000 words in fiction. This can be a short story, a chapter from your book or novel, or any other form of fiction. Remember to put your name on each page. Mail this completed application (keep a copy for yourself) and your writing samples to:
Cape Cod Writers Center
Tomorrow’s Writers Today
P. O. Box 408
Osterville, MA 02655
Parent’s Permission required.
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Cape Cod Writers Center • P.O. Box 408 Osterville, MA 02655 • 508-420-0200 • Fax 508-420-0212www.capecodwriterscenter.org • writers@capecodwriterscenter.org
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