If your child needs to brush up on writing mechanics, to keep their writing skills up during the summer, or just needs some extra writing support, let us know. We can schedule individual sessions to suit your schedule and location. 

E-mail your requests to:

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In this Sunday series of classes we’ll explore where to find inspiration and ideas, how to make writing spicy, and get better acquainted with metaphors, similes, alliterations and more! For kids 8 – 12.

Info: The Booksmith. Sundays, 10:30 – 11:45 am, April 22 – June 3rd (no class 5/27). To register click here.

Cost: $108 (10% discount if you register by April 11)

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Also in San Francisco, “Take The Lid Off of Your Imagination” at Seesaw, a creative learning space in Hayes Valley. We’re offering a six week creative writing class series for kids 8 – 12.

Info: Seesaw 600A Octavia Street. Free sample class on 4/5. Session runs April 19th – May 24th, from 3 – 4pm. To register click here.

Cost: $128. (10% discount if you register by April 9)

Sarah Bruhns (Sunset Elementary) graduated in 2010 from San Francisco State University with a degree in Creative Writing and has been roaming the writing world ever since. She is a long-time volunteer and intern at 826 Valencia, where she designed a comic book creation class and taught in the English Language Learners’ Summer Series. She is a huge fan of comics, space, superheroes and secret identities in all forms, and one day aspires to be the first graphic novelist on Mars. She can be found at Borderlands Cafe in San Francisco, drinking way too much coffee.

Maceo Cabrera Estévez (Park Day School) is the playwright and performer of Amor Cubano: In a bottle, a tube and a small packet produced at La Peña in Berkeley, The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco, The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance and The Brooklyn Arts Exchange. She holds an MA from New College in Writing and Consciousness. Her writing has been published in Hakima Midwifery, InCulture Parent Magazine, Riffrag Journal and Sojourner: The Women Forum.  Maceo is in the process of writing a memoir on her spiritual journey towards Islam. She is a mother, wife and wannabe urban homesteader.

Louise Kraft (El Carmelo Elementary) has always had a passion for creative writing and education. Before moving to the Bay Area this summer, Louise was a Teach for America Corps Member in Boston. There, she taught 5^th and 6^th Grade Writing and English at a KIPP Academy charter school. Louise graduated from Cornell University in 2009 with degrees in English and Psychology, and earned her Masters in Education from Boston University in 2011. Louise grew up just outside of Philadelphia and currently lives in Palo Alto. In her free time, Louise loves to writing, cooking, and reading.

Zeina Nasr (Havens Elementary) is a musician and writer from Beirut, Lebanon. Her passion for creative writing began at an early age, when she composed a poem called “Kiwi” which her third grade teacher pronounced to be “very strange indeed!” She holds an M.F.A. in Music Performance from Mills College and a B.A. in English and Theater from Amherst College. As a volunteer tutor for the Bay Area organization, Refugee Transitions, a reading and writing mentor to students both young and old, a freelance journalist, and a writer of rambling memoirish prose, Zeina is committed to spreading her love of the written word. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, reading, and songwriting.

Ben Wilkins (Oakton Elementary, Virginia) recently graduated from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction where he had his first taste of teaching Creative Writing to undergraduate students. He found nothing quite so thrilling as watching students surprise themselves with their own imagination, and has been hooked ever since.  Currently, he works as a freelance writing tutor and editor in the Washington, DC area.  In addition to writing nonfiction, he writes and draws comics, and is working on a novel for younger readers.  In his spare time, you can usually find him with his head against a tree, Huck Finn style, reading or daydreaming about imaginary worlds and adventures.  He lives with his wife and dog in Herndon, VA.