| The Creative Writing Program encourages students to write imaginatively and to read enthusiastically by placing well-known published authors in direct contact with classes in the NYC public schools. Since its inception, more than 8000 students have participated in the program. For many students citywide the program is their first realization that authors are people and that people write books, articles and poetry.
Each year the program culminates with The Creative Writing Festival where each class exhibits their works for parents, peers and the public at The National Arts Club.
The Creative Writing Program is a positive influence on young people and their ability to appreciate and understand the writing process. Exposure to published authors and to the creative process provides an enriching experience for our students. Through participation in the Creative Writing Program, writing becomes not just a chore to complete a book report, but an enjoyable and rewarding exercise and a potential career path. Many of our students write beautiful prose, poems or plays; some show a talent for interviewing and others enjoy the investigative process of writing a biography. In essence, students become better aware of literature and the written word as a result of the program.
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