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Contact: Adrian Hoad-Reddick
The School for Young Writers
519-831-0035
519-846-5259 (fax)
hoad@hoadworks.com
www.sschoolforyoungwriters.com
The School for Young Writers, with an Award-Winning Faculty, Opens Its Virtual Doors to Aspiring Writers
February 3, 2009 The School for Young Writers launches March 1, 2009 with seven exciting 12-week online courses. Each project-based course provides students with one-on-one attention of a writing mentor, a supportive community of peers and authentic publishing opportunities.
Teacher and New Media CEO Adrian Hoad-Reddick has united leading edge web technology, the very best writing mentors and strategic publishing partners to nurture the talents of young writers, ages 10-21. Hoad-Reddick has assembled an award-winning faculty with proven teaching credentials. The faculty includes Governor-General award winning playwright Vern Thiessen, acclaimed novelist Edeet Ravel, YA novelists Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and Jean Mills, freelance writer and editor, Heather Wright, screenwriter and film-maker Rob Santaguida and Mike Leslie, Managing Editor of What If? Canada’s Creative Magazine for Teens. Hoad-Reddick hopes to build a truly international faculty and vows that “The School for Young Writers will be flexible and work around the busy lives of its aspiring and professional writers. It’s anytime, anywhere learning in a medium that places high value on the written word.”
Screenwriting Mentor Ron Santaguida captures well the mission of the School: “One of our main goals is for the students to love writing more than when they started the course. We will guide them. But gently. When you’re that young the world just seems to swirl around you and discourage you, the opportunities to express oneself are limited and generally regarded with disapproval. We want to offer the students a chance to do something incredible.”
To apply for courses, or for more information about The School for Young Writers’ visit www.schoolforyoungwriters.com.
Adrian Hoad-Reddick has made creativity and literacy mainstays of his 23-year teaching career. He hosts a weekly live literary radio show with his students, he developed and maintains a website that allows young readers around the world to publish illustrated book reports, and he created a vocabulary series with his students. The School for Young Writers was inspired in part by a visit to Dave Eggers’ 826Valencia tutoring centre in San Francisco, where Hoad-Reddick witnessed the powerful influence of one-on-one attention on student achievement in a highly creative setting.
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Awesome!
I passed this along to two of my young writer friends in the Maritimes. Can they request specific mentors?
It almost makes me wish I was a young writer. But I know one from an author visit I did last fall and will send this to her.