Teen/Tween Writing Workshop

Calling all teens and tweens!

Do you enjoy writing?  Are you an aspiring poet, novelist, or perhaps precocious young journalist?  Good readers make good writers, as they say, and what better place to practice the craft of writing than your local library?

Join Big Island librarian Chelsea Harlan (author of Bright Shade, winner of the 2022 American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize) for this fun Saturday morning workshop to get your brain wheels spinning and your pencils moving.

We’ll talk about different approaches to writing prose and poetry, study a few examples and different styles of writing, and we’ll try a couple of easy free-writing prompts.

Feel free to bring work you’ve already written if you’d like to share something with the group, but no pressure. Part of the goal of this workshop is simply to further develop confidence in your writing voice, a skill that comes with patience and steady practice.

Light snacks will be provided. Sponsored by the Friends of the Big Island Library.