Online Young Writers' Hangout

The Young Writers' Hangout offers kids and teens (8-15 years old), hands-on writing sessions specifically designed to cater to your child’s writing needs. Whether it be for fiction, poetry, essays, or any other writing style or genre, we aim to nurture your child’s talents and writing skills through guided and timed writing sessions, feedback from writing mentors in a supportive, positive and encouraging environment and learning from the works of other writing enthusiasts as well as beloved books and authors, and the freedom and space to allow the writer in your child to sprout wings and flourish.  

No two sessions will be alike as we understand the unique gift for writing waiting to be unleashed within each student. And as those blank pages get filled with your child’s words, there’s no harm having fun while learning and the development of talent take place. 

At the end of the year, we publish an anthology of the best works from our young writers for the year and we have a book launch to start the new year.

All classes are taught in English by published authors for we feel they know the craft best, having agonized and triumphed over the written word. Write Things officially began in September 2013.  

Program designed by: Neni Sta. Romana Cruz 

Writer for Philippine Daily Inquirer and book author of You Know You’re Filipino If…A Pinoy Primer, Don’t Take A Bath on a Friday: Philippine Superstitions and Folk Beliefs, Why the Piña Has A Hundred Eyes and Other Classic Philippine Folktales About Fruits, The Warrior Dance and Other Classic Philippine Sky Tales, Gabriela Silang, The Boy Who Would Feed the World, The Teacher.  Her recent 2015 books are:  Philippine Proverbs, The Aquino Legacy: An Enduring Narrative, Bumasa at Lumaya2: A Sourcebook on Children’s Literature in the Philippines.   She also taught the Writing Mentorship Program for gifted students at International School Manila where she was a faculty member of long standing.

This class is for you if:

1)  You want to be exposed to different forms of writing (ex. short stories, essays, feature writing, poetry)

2)  You want to improve your creative writing skills through different writing exercises each session. 

3)  Or you have a writing project you have always dreamt of completing (ex. short story, story book, comic book)