Congratulations!

Left to right: Adriana Herrera Perhamus, HannahMcClaggar, Ms. Gamzon, Mary Rice, Jamal Blair Golden

Three cheers for SOTA writers, who are winning outside recognition!!!

Four out of the six winners in the Friends of the Rochester Public Library's Sokol Writing Contest are SOTA students. They were honored in a ceremony today at the library. Mary Rice, a senior, took first place in poetry and Adriana Herrera Perhamus, a freshman, took first place in fiction. Each won $200. Meanwhile, senior Jamal Blair Golden took third place, and won $75 for his poetry. And Hannah McClaggar, a freshman, took second place in fiction, winning $100.

Two SOTA students also were finalists in GeVa's Young Playwrights contest. Snaps to junior Valerie Sigl and sophomore Madeleine Feldman.

Summer opportunity for juniors and seniors interested in writing

Writers & Books is looking for a few good juniors and seniors (or college-age students) to help with summer day camp classes for younger students. SummerWrite Apprentices help professional teachers and writers for a total of four or five weeks. The positions come with a weekly stipend.

For more information, visit the Writers & Books site : http://wab.org/workshops/2011-spring/apprentice.shtml

Meanwhile, younger students may want to visit the http://www.wab.org/ to check out the camps for their age groups.

Do your spring cleaning AND help the Creative Writing Department

If your house is anything like ours, there are always too many books, including quite a few that the kids have outgrown. You can get rid of some of those books and help out the Creative Writing department by donating to the annual used book sale at SOTA.  The sale is scheduled for May 16-20, a week that includes the last parent-teacher conference, so you'll also have time to shop. This is the department's only fundraiser;  proceeds will help to pay for contest entry fees, retreats and other expenses.  Donations of books, audio books, and DVDs can by delivered by student or parent to the SOTA library, where librarian Christine Jenssen has agreed to store the books until the sale.

Welcome to the SOTA Scribes blog!

Hi, there!

 I thought it might save a bit of space on your computers and mine to share information about Creative Writing at SOTA through a blog. This means you won't be getting anymore lengthy emails, attached newsletters, or printed newsletters. Please let me know what you think. If this goes well, I'll just be sending out emails alerting you new posts on the blog. You can also sign up for an RSS feed, which will automatically notify you when new posts are made. I'll also do the social networking bit and post news of new blogs on my facebook page.
Happy writing and reading.

Diana