Creative Writing Workshop: a class with a dedication to imagination

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By Melody Cosgrove

Attention writers of BHS: Are you looking for a class that feeds your writing brain? Do you struggle with the limitations teachers give you in English classes when you’re given writing assignments? Do you like donuts? Yes? Oh, do we have a class for you

Creative Writing is a semester class about—obviously—creative writing. But this can mean many things depending on the teacher and the curriculum. While you may think it’s a class where the teacher gives you a prompt or a topic and sends you out to write something about it, it’s not.

These were my expectations going into the class last year. I was nervous it might be another class centered around assignments, and terrified it might be a class where my writing was graded based on standards the teacher had for it. In other words, I was worried “creative writing” meant “write exactly what…

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