“If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!”–Shel Silverstein
If you would like Suzanne to lead a day-long workshop at your school, community center or youth facility, please contact Suzanne at suzannekingsbury@yahoo.com.
Writing Salon for Girls, ages 11-14
The Writing Salon, 67 Main Street, #36, Brattleboro, Vermont
Wednesday Afternoons from 3:45-5:15, January 13th-February 17th
An after-school program where students are given writing prompts including sentence starters, photographs, talisman and situational conflicts. Students write from the prompt for a specified amount of time. Afterward, they read their pieces aloud to other students, who then provide reflective, non-critical feedback to their writing peers about what they liked in the story, what stood out and was strong. Literary devices in the work are pointed out by the teacher so students are aware of the intuitive use of literary tools. Students are encouraged to write from an intuitive place, to tap into their imaginations, and to listen with an enthusiastic ear.
The “rules” of the course involve: not stopping your hand while writing, allowing strange associations to be made in the writing and following them to fruition, providing positive feedback to their writing peers.
The goal of the class is to hone students’ creative writing and listening skills, to allow for the use of imagination, to open the temporal centers of the brain in order to block static and critical voices in order that intuition, impulse and emotion can run free on the page.
Wild Words
A Creative Writing Class for after-school students at the Academy School, West Brattleboro
An after-school program where we have fun with words. We make up group stories, illustrate, work individually on stories, learn the power in magic writing wands, read aloud, learn to listen without judgement, make movement sentences out of poems and generally have a big fat party with words.
The goal of the class is to hone students’ creative writing and listening skills, to allow for the use of imagination, and to open the temporal centers of the brain in order to block static and critical voices in order that intuition, impulse and emotion can run free on the page.