High Schoolers Take Writing to Next Level

Publication: The Citizen of Laconia
Date: July 12, 2008

Summary: The Plymouth Writing Project (New Hampshire) organized a two-week summer writing camp for high school students and topped it off with a public reading.

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Bourn praised the success of the program and O'Riordan's efforts "to raise this interest with high school students in the middle of the summer. I guess it's seeing the whole learning cycle that doesn't stop when you're 18 and graduated from high school."

O'Riordan said she sees "a lot of passion and excitement" from elementary school students about writing, but the interest has waned in older students she has spoken to. She wants older students to "look at it as an art and not so much a class chore."

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