Virtual Creative Writing for Ages 5-12

Join us each week on Tuesdays at 4 on Google Meets to write stories and share them! Each week, we spend 15-20 minutes talking about concepts and themes, and then have silent writing and sharing time. This is a great program for children who love making up stories.

Please register in advance to get the link in the 24 hours before the workshop or email halschrieve@nypl.org for more info.

Here are our themes for April:

April 2- Stowaways 

Join us to write stories about people who hide away on ships, rockets, trains and cars, trying to get somewhere other than their home. Whether they're historical or science fiction, it's exciting to write about a character who needs to leave where they are without anyone knowing.

April 9- Stuck In A Video Game

You fall through a portal, or through the screen, or one day you just wake up to a pixelated world. You're stuck in a video game. What gets you points? What restores your health? Is someone controlling things from behind the scenes? Do you want to get out, or win?

April 16- Animal Magic

You acquire powers related to a real animal's qualities. Can you shoot webs? Can you break a watermelon with your jaw like a hippo? Can you sleep 20 hours a day like a cat? Write about characters with animal magic and what they do with their powers.

April 23- Technological Wonders

In the year 2050, there are light rails everywhere, robots to clean the floor, and flying motorcycles. Wait, no. In the year 2050, everyone lives in big, genetically engineered trees and saves their memories to a bio-technical jellyfish cloud. Wait, no. In the year 2050-- what new technology exists? Who invents it and how? Join us to write about the tech of the future.

April 30- Dinosaur Murder Mystery

You and five colleagues are the first paleontologists to travel back into the past and encounter real dinosaurs. But after disembarking from your time machine onto the safe platform floating in the air that the university paid to have constructed, you realize one of your number is missing-- and the time machine says you only have five hours to return to the future before you're stuck in the Jurassic forever.