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.