[NEohioPAL]Imagination High at Cleveland State Unversity, July 23 - 28

[Jonathan Fairman]

Do you know of any students entering 9th though 12th
grade? Please let them know of this program. This
should be an intense week of writing.  We hope to have
36 students students involved.

Imagination High is a new writing workshop for
students in grades 9-12. It is modeled on the popular
Imagination Writers Workshop and Conference, now
entering its 17th Year at Cleveland State University.

Where will Imagination High take place?
Most activities will take place at the Cole Center,
located at 3100 Chester Avenue on the Cleveland State
University campus. The Cole Center is a conference
facility with modern seminar rooms and computer labs.

When is Imagination High?
Monday, July 23 through Saturday, July 28. The
workshop will run from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday
through Friday, followed by a full Saturday of
readings and staged performances.

What will I do?
You will write and learn about writing through
activities designed for different learning styles and
for keeping interest and energy high. You will read
some great contemporary work and also hear some read
or performed by faculty artists; then we will study
and discuss what makes it so strong. Enrichment
sessions will take you to other arts facilities on
campus, encounters that will give you something
different to think and write about. You will do daily
new-writing exercises, learning to innovate and
stretch your skills. And then you will test-market
your work, getting reader response through instructor
feedback and peer review in small manuscript
workshops. Over the course of an intensive week, you
will write new poetry, drama, and fiction, and will
get the positive, tough-love response you will need to
help you rewrite and improve your work as well as your
skills.

That’s a long day; will I starve?
No! Imagination High will provide lunch and snacks and
water and soft drinks.

Who is teaching the Writing Workshop?
A team of terrific, working writers and teachers

    Jonathan Fairman will lead the workshop. He is
Director of the Literary Arts Program at Cleveland
School of the Arts with 20 years of experience as a
multi-award-winning creative writing instructor, and
he will coordinate and direct activities for the
entire week.

    Poet Tim Seibles has published five popular
collections of poetry. For 10 years he taught high
school English in Texas. Now he teaches Creative
Writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia. He
grew up in Philadelphia, and his poetry often draws on
the deep well of urban adolescence.

    Sarah Willis, who grew up and still lives in
Cleveland Heights, is a fiction writer with a focus on
adolescence and with four published novels and a fifth
on the way. She has been a popular teacher in schools
and universities across northeast Ohio and at
conferences as far away as Maui.

    Terrence Spivey, a prize-winning playwright,
became the Artistic Director of Karamu House following
two decades of acting and directing off-Broadway in
New York. He understands the process of drama from
conception to performance, and he inaugurated and
oversees the Young Playwrights’ Festival in Karamu’s
Arena Fest.

How much will it cost?
Tuition for the six-day workshop is $200.00

How Do I Apply?
Just fill out the reservation form and send it in.
http://www.csuohio.edu/imagination/imagination_high/