Week of April 23 – 100 Word Challenge!

Let’s try something short, sweet, and oh so sensational! The 100 Word Challenge! But wait…hold up…what is the 100 Word Challenge?

It is a FREE weekly creative writing challenge for children under 16 years of age. Each week a prompt is given, which can be a picture or a series of individual words and the children can use up to 100 words to write a creative piece. You can write these creative prompts for yourself, your blog, or submit them to the 100 Word Challenge.

Ready to give it a try? Here is this week’s prompt:

Latest prompt 

This week we have a very strange appearance in the woods!

Things to think about:

  • What can you see?
  • Where has it come from?
  • How do you feel?

Write about it in 100 words! 

Challenge Accepted

DA Literary Challenge 3!

The Creative Writing and Literary Magazine club is happy to announce its third writing challenge for the Spring 2018 issue. Use the following prompt to inspire your creativity, and email the result to Mrs. Howes by May 1. The winner will receive a small, ridiculous prize, automatic publication in The Locker, and the opportunity to read their work at a Community Meeting. Here is the prompt:

Base a piece of writing or art on a weird fact or several odd facts that you know. 

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DA Literary Challenge 2

The Creative Writing and Literary Magazine club is happy to announce its second writing challenge for the Spring 2018 issue. Use the following prompt to inspire your creativity, and email the result to Mrs. Howes (kelly.howes@da.org) by April 10. The winner will receive a small, ridiculous prize, automatic publication in The Locker, and the opportunity to read their work at a Community Meeting.

Grab the closest book. Go to page 42 or 67. Use a sentence from this page as the TITLE of your written piece or artwork.

What is one sentence that speaks to you on page 42 or 67 in a book near you? Add the sentence from your book and the book title in the comments below. Maybe one of these quotes will inspire your next piece of writing!

DA Literary Magazine Challenge 1

ATTENTION Durham Academy Students:
The Creative Writing and Literary Magazine club is happy to announce its first writing challenge for the Spring 2018 issue. Use the following prompt to inspire your creativity, and email the result to Mrs. Howes by March 27. The winner will receive a small, ridiculous prize, automatic publication in The Locker, and the opportunity to read their work at a Community Meeting. So here is the first prompt:

Think of an abstract idea (like “joy,” “hunger,” or “stupidity”). Imagine that abstraction as a character. It can look like a person, an animal, or a creature of your own invention. Once you have the character in your head, set it in motion–make it DO something. For example, “Joy” might ride a bicycle, “Hunger” might go to the movies, or “Stupidity” might dig a hole. Tell the story of what happens, in the form of either writing or artwork.