We may have a long way to go here in Texas before the summer heat begins to fade, but autumn and back-to-school season are just around the corner. For us […]
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Category: Teens
Youth Programming: A Call for Pitches
Posted onHelp Us Expand Our Youth Programming! The rise of COVID_19 cases forced us to reexamine the way we offer all of our programs here at The Writing Barn. One of […]
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2019 Summer Camp Recap
Posted onThis year, we extended our annual summer camps for kids and teens to two weeks each instead of one, filling our property with young writers the entire month of July. […]
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Black Fantasy – Using Fantasy as a Tool to Explore Issues within a Community
Posted onBlack fantasy is an interesting subgenre for a variety of reasons. Fantasy is a genre where the rules and customs of our society don’t have to be present in the […]
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Graphic Memoir Engages YA Readers in Personal Side of Opioid Epidemic
Posted onAuthors on a mission to tackle topics that ail humankind—addiction, depression, poverty, loss, trauma, the search for one’s purpose—isn’t a revelation in the literary world. Writers are some of the […]
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The Personal Power of Storytelling
Posted onby Kat Shuttlesworth, WB Intern At The Writing Barn, picture book author Bethany Hegedus has converted her secluded, South Austin property into what I’ve heard lovingly referred to as “Austin’s […]
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Stories & Poems from our Young Writers Programs
Posted onThis summer, The Writing Barn had the pleasure of teaching two creative writing camps for young adults, ages (8-17). Students spent a week at The Writing Barn learning in a […]
Continue ReadingCraft Talk Tuesday with Amy Rose Capetta, author of Entangled
Posted onA few years ago, here in Austin, this old VCFA grad (yes, I mean me) met a young and talented current VCFA student (and now grad). We bonded over all […]
Continue ReadingThe Writing Barn, Yellow Bird Editors, and The Typewriter Rodeo at the Austin Teen Books Festival
Posted onThis last Saturday, Sara Kocek and I, (Bethany Hegedus) hit the Austin Teen Book Festival to promote her College Essay Boot Camp class, and our joint Let Loose! A Creative […]
Continue ReadingWhat My Last Book Taught Me Wednesday with debut author, Sara Kocek
Posted onThe Writing Barn is thrilled to be a stop on the Sara2 Blog Tour! Today we welcome, Sara Kocek, author of Promise Me Something, a debut novel which is called “Compelling, honest storytelling” […]
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