Tween Writing Workshop

Personal Essay with Virginia Woodruff

This class centers on the art of telling one’s own story with clarity, honesty, and style. Students will learn how to transform lived experience into a compelling narrative, weaving together memory, reflection, and observation. The class emphasizes voice, structure, and detail, guiding writers to capture not just what happened, but what it meant. In this space, vulnerability becomes craft material, and the act of writing becomes a way to make sense of the self and the world. By the end, students leave with essays that are as intimate as they are artful—pieces that reveal the power of the personal voice in literary nonfiction.

Taught by profession writers, Badgerdog Creative Writing offer kids and tweens a nurturing environment to cultivate a passion for writing, uncover authentic self-expression, broaden language skills, and showcase writing in workshop readings.

The Badgerdog Creative Writing program includes workshops for all ages, classroom-based lessons, and youth camps to inspire and guide our up-and-coming writers. Badgerdog is a program of The Library Foundation, which offers a range of enriching cultural and educational community programs for all ages in close partnership with the library.