Highly Acclaimed Writing Workshop for Kids Comes to DC!
The NYC-based award-winning Writopia Lab (www.WritopiaLab.org) is now holding after-school and weekend creative writing workshops for kids (ages 8-18) in Washington DC! We are hosted by the Wisconsin Avenue Baptist Church, just two blocks south of the Tenleytown metro. We can also hold private workshops throughout greater Washington for those who can't make it to Tenleytown. Visit our website at www.WritopiaLab.org to see our history, mission, and reviews. Call Writopia Lab DC at 202-629-9510 for more information or to set up a private workshop!
HOW WE WORK:
- After-school workshops meet weekly for 10 weeks for 1.5 hours each session; weekend workshops last 5-7 weeks for 2-3 hours each session.
- Each workshop enrolls a maximum of 6 participants and is led by a published, award-winning writer and experienced teacher;
- The workshops, organized by age group, are peppered with original and fun writing exercises, but our primary goal is to help students pursue their own writing passions and to complete excellent pieces!
Fall Session: October 5 - December 17, 2009
Winter Session: January 18 - March 26, 2010
Spring Session: April 5 - June 11, 2010
Summer Session (Week-long Intensive Workshops): June 21 - August 27, 2010
THE RESULTS: Each participant leaves the workshop with at least one polished piece of original writing. We publish completed pieces in a Writopia Lab anthology, and twice a year all participants are invited to
read their work at a local bookstore. We also encourage students to submit to contests and publications, and our writers have had great success: In 2008 and 2009, Writopia writers won more national Scholastic Writing
Awards than did any other group of kids in the country!
THE PEOPLE:
Kathy Crutcher
DC Director, Writing Instructor
Kathy @ WritopiaLab.org (No spaces)
Kathy Crutcher joined Writopia Lab in March 2009. She received an MFA in Creative Writing (’06) from the University of Arizona in both fiction and creative nonfiction, and has taught composition and creative writing at the University of Kentucky, the University of Arizona, and through the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) program. Kathy has also read for various literary publications, including The Atlantic, The Sonora Review, and Limestone, and she served on the national panel of judges for the 2009 Parent Teacher Association (PTA) “Reflections� Literature Contest. Her writing has earned her an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, fellowships to writing programs in Prague and Kenya, as well as accolades from contests such as the Glimmer Train Fiction Open and The New Millennium Writing Awards. Kathy is thrilled to be part of Writopia and looks forward to many good reads in DC!
Rebecca Wallace-Segall
National Director, Writing Instructor
Rebecca @ WritopiaLab.org
Teaching History
Rebecca founded WritopiaLab in April 2007, currently directs the national organization, and teaches writing workshops in New York and occasionally in Greenwich, CT. Rebecca has won multiple teaching awards including the 2008 National Gold Apple Teacher Award for “submitting the most outstanding group of submissions on the national level� in the
Scholastic Art & Writing event. Previously, Rebecca established the creative writing program at the Abraham Joshua Heschel Middle School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan as a consultant. While she was there, the program outperformed every other school in the city (including every elite public and private institution) in Scholastic’s prestigious Art & Writing Awards competition. She was awarded recognition from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards as an “outstanding educator� in 2006 and 2007. (Writopia won Scholastic’s official endorsement in 2007.) Rebecca was also nominated by students and selected to be entered into the 11th Edition of Who’s Who Among American Teachers.
Rebecca has taught at SUNY Albany, New York University, The Katherine Gibbs School, and at Gotham Writers’ Workshop. In 2002, she had the pleasure of working with young writers in New York City public schools for the first time as a resident writer with the Teachers & Writers Collaborative. By 2003, she was working at the Heschel School, planting the seeds for a unique and successful creative writing program there. She also participates in the judging of several national youth writing competitions (in which her students are not involved).
Writings
Rebecca began writing for publications in 1997 as an intern at The Village Voice. Over the next ten years, she contributed five cover stories (and other pieces) to the Voice, served as Senior Editor at Psychology Today Magazine, contributed op-eds and thought pieces to The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, The Nation, and New York Newsday, and contributed to dozens of other magazines and newspapers including New York Magazine, Salon.com, and Spin. She won Salon’s “Best People Story of the Year Award� for “Love Labor’s Flossed� and received recognition for other pieces as well. In 1999, she became a Journalism Fellow at Brandeis University. In 2003, she entered the world of comedy writing, and began writing and performing sketch comedy around NYC. She won a “Best Sketch� competition at the Upright Citizens Brigade in 2006. A full-length comedic screenplay she co-wrote is currently being represented by The Dorothy Palmer Agency.
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