And don’t worry – I’ll let 12 year olds enter provided they’re in Grade 6 and not secondary school. I’ll put a quick post on my blog about this this weekend. Thanks for writing! Comment by sarahbrennanblog— March 26, 2011 # Reply hi miss brennan. i m alice from l.i....
Scary Halloween Poems A Chilling Halloween Poem I’m not afraid of snakes, or toads, or bugs, or worms, or mice,The things that girls are scared of, I think are awful nice.I’m pretty brave, I guess, and yet I hate to go to bed,For, when I’m tucked up warm and snug and wh...
When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it and so on for the following Thanksgiving. But by the time Thanksgiving came around, we sort of thought of the turkey as a pet, so we ate the dog. Only kidding. It was ...
Her poems are widely published in magazines and anthologies, and her pamphlets Pretty in Pink (4Word) and Queen of Infinite Space (Maytree) were published in 2021. Posted in Parody, Pastiche, poetryTagged art, comedy, humour, life, literature, love, poem, poet, poetry, writing1 Comment Ba...
And finally, the 12 to 18 year olds and I spent almost the whole of Thursday together, in three different workshops:How to Become a Good Writer,An Introduction to Poetryand, finally,Nailing the Narrative Curve,where we had tremendous fun writing a story plan for the tragic story of three ...
On my desk is a copy ofThe Best of It: New and Selected Poemsby Kay Ryan inscribed by the poet to me. It is the collection for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2011. She signed my copy after she did a reading of her work at SMU last year. I had ordered it on the...
HONOURABLE MENTIONS:Max, Kate and Wilson are all new to my competitions, and I thought that their efforts were excellent for 7 year olds! I look forward to getting regular entries from them in my next competitions! Max Lee, Grade 2, Hsinchu International School, Taiwan, 7 years old ...