面向12-16岁青少年的专业英文创意写作工作坊｜Global Young Adult Writing Workshop

亲爱的Teenager写作者们,

Julia Hollingsworth

Julia holds a Masters in Creative Writing: Nonfiction from the University of East Anglia and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Abilene Christian University. Additionally, she completed a Certificate and a Diploma course in Creative Writing from the Institute of Ongoing Education at Cambridge University. In 2019, she received an award from the Texas Association of Creative Writing for best undergraduate essay.

Julia has been working in the education sector since 2019. She has worked as an English teacher for primary students where she taught reading, writing, and grammar, and as a reading and writing tutor for secondary students. In 2024, she completed a course in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to better assist international students and to expand her teaching capacities.

Julia is currently working on a memoir about untangling her identity from the fundamentalist, evangelical Christian community she was raised in. Her work largely focuses on family ties and the conflicts within close relationships. She enjoys character driven narratives that utilize dialogue and scene setting as tools to pull the plot forward. She is especially drawn to any writing that blends fiction and nonfiction. Some of her favorites include In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan and the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

Writing The Personal Essay

February 10 - 14 2025

Objectives of the Course:

By the end of the week students will have learned the basic tools of creative writing to write their own personal essay.

Day1- The Personal Essay + writing through what we see and feel

Day2- Writing about interactions between people

Day3- What is Fiction/Nonfiction + writing dialogue

Day4- Writing about our environments, focusing on sound

Day5- Exploring your Personal Essay (theme/topic)

Plus: Final work review

Monday / February 10th /

Day1 Introduction to The Personal Essay

• What does the word ‘personal’ mean?

• How can we show someone what we are seeing?

• How can we describe the things we feel, both by touching, and with our emotions?

  
  

Tuesday / February 11th /

Day2 Objective - Students will have a better grasp on writing about food, and their interactions with others.

Questions to be posed by the tutor:

• How can we show someone what we taste?

• How can we describe what we smell?

• How can we explore (and write about) our relationships with our friends and family through food?

Wednesday / February 12th /

Day3 Objective-Students should have a better grasp on the difference between fiction and nonfiction.

Questions to be posed by the tutor:

• What is the difference between fiction and nonfiction?

• What is dialogue?

• How can we write creatively without making things up?

Thursday / February 13th /

Day4 Objective - Students will learn how to incorporate sound into their personal essays.

Questions to be posed by the tutor:

• How can we make reading more exciting with sound?

• What is ONOMATOPOEIA?

Friday / February 14th / WRITING THE PERSONAL ESSAY

Day5 Objective-Students review the skills they have learned throughout the week to incorporate it into their writing.

• The tutor will pose the idea that the personal essay does not always have to be about the writer.

• Students will finalize their topics for their final essays and begin writing.

阅读列表：

Crying in H-Mart, A Memoir by Michelle Zauner （600 words)

A Slice of Bread and Coffee a nonfiction short story by Bumi Pertiwi (800 words)

The Room of Many Colours a section of a chapter by Ruskin Bond (799 words)

Singing Like Singing Like Yma Sumac by Cheryl Merril

Shiva by Etgar Keret