<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">Creative Writing for Teens with Claire Drucker, M.F.A.</b></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Are you looking for a creative outlet for your teen before high school starts?</div><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In this writing workshop, we will coax out stories and poems through a variety of writing exercises, such as word play, pass the story, found objects, and theater games, to name a few! <span class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Your teen’s imagination will be encouraged to express feelings, thoughts and ideas in an inspired, exciting and interactive way. Want to</span><span class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> </span><span class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">write a monologue in your great-grandfather’s voice?</span><span class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Or a love poem to a mountain? How about a story involving a magical clock, a secret bracelet, and two cousins who save the world? We will engage our crazy, introspective literary selves with dozens of writing exercises that will provide your child with new work and tools for more writing in the future.</span></p><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mon-Friday, Aug. 8-12th, 2016</div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">9-noon</div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sebastopol Center for the Arts</div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">$185</div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For rising 9-12th graders</div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 12px;"><br class=""></div><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To pre-register, contact Claire at <a href="mailto:cdrucker@sonic.net" class="">cdrucker@sonic.net</a>.</p><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 12px;"><br class=""></div><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Claire Drucker has taught Creative Writing and Literature at Santa Rosa Junior College for 20 years, and is a longtime poet-teacher through CA Poets in the Schools. She has also taught creative writing at Sonoma Academy and has offered numerous private classes for teens and adults. Claire’s writing has been published in over a dozen literary journals and her second chapbook of poems, <i class="">The Fluid Body</i>, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2014. </p></body></html>