At a glance info:
✏️ Write a new story every day!
✏️ New themes—and new writing challenges—each week.
✏️ Taught by real authors!
What parents/caregivers are saying about WordPlay classes:
“Saundra Mitchell has been an incredible teacher for my children. She’s patient, supportive, and always brings such a positive energy to her classes. My kids said she was very enthusiastic—they felt truly encouraged and motivated to keep improving their writing. It’s clear that she cares deeply about her students and their growth. We’re so grateful to have found her!”
Pamela G.
“My daughter LOVES this class and the amazing teacher! She looks forward to it each week. Extremely engaging, creative and interesting classes! Highly recommend!”
Karen H
“My teen enjoyed this class and their experiences throughout the writing and publishing processes. They were motivated to work outside of class and felt supported.”
Sabrina P.
Daily Short Story Camp
$117 per week-long session
Join us to write a new short story every day! This class is taught exclusively by published authors, and is a great fit for enthusiastic writers and future novelists.
In this camp we deep dive into a different element, style, genre, or approach to creative writing every day! We may discuss writing convincing dialogue, writing science fiction, or creating an epistolary story. Each week is totally new!
The teacher will spend about twenty to twenty-five minutes reviewing the subject of the week, providing examples and guiding student discussion. Students will them receive a prompt based on the lesson! They'll spend approximately twenty to twenty-five minutes creating their own short story or scene based on the prompt.
Students may write their stories freehand or type them. At the end of class, students are invited (but not required) to share a short portion of their story aloud with the class. At the end of the week, students may select one of their stories to get full feedback on from the teacher.
Each week has a general "theme" that lessons and prompts will follow, but these are loose and open to interpretation-- please don't feel restricted by the theme of a given week!