An opportunity to write something meaningful for an audience beyond the classroom, and the chance to get published by an award-winning magazine. Details for our fall writing contest, “Honoring Your ...

Some skills are hard to convey on your college application. For students who are active in a musical instrument, they have participated in band or orchestra and have often achieved a long list of ...

In Writing sketches, part one, we examined issues such as finding an idea and formatting, and simple comic techniques such as misdirection and callbacks. In this piece, we'll discuss further elements ...

Every spring, some teenage hearts leap with the kind of joy that Paulo Coelho describes as “sometimes a blessing, but … often a conquest.” Others break all over the Internet. “The entire [teen writing ...

Sketch comedy has been a staple of British television for decades. From Monty Python to The Fast Show, That Mitchell And Webb Look to Armstrong & Miller, great sketches have given us lots of iconic ...

The Spirit Writing competition invites deaf and hard-of-hearing students in grades 10-11 to unleash their creativity. Participants are invited to craft a writing piece of up to 2,000 words centered ...

CHARLOTTE — Students at local high schools and middle schools dominated this weekend at a statewide writing competition known as The Quill. Twenty schools qualified from the regional competitions to ...

Writing comedy in the age of Donald Trump poses many challenges, the most obvious being how to compete with a President determined to be more outrageous—and to draw more attention—than any form of ...

Eighth-grade students from New Bremen were awarded the first-place team award at the Power of the Pen writing competition Saturday at Ohio State University-Lima. LIMA — In today’s digital age, ...