Pop Culture Critic

DOES YOUR 8TH GRADER NEED HELP WITH THEIR ISAAGNY AND SCREENED PUBLIC SCHOOLS ESSAY?

Uptown Stories is offering a community small-group essay writing workshop. During this session, students will make as much progress in their writing process as they can, choosing their topic, brainstorming, outlining, drafting, revising, and editing their personal essays.

There will be a maximum of 18 students and tuition is just $25. We look forward to working with your children on this important piece of writing!

In this workshop, students will see that approaching writing playfully has very serious results. Using ideas and techniques we encounter reading master poets such as Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, May Swenson, and Wislawa Szymborska, our writing will be inspired by language games, traditional forms, and imitation-of and response-to master poems.

We welcome everyone to join in the fun, from the reluctant writer to the experienced poet - you will find joy, magic, and mystery playing with words

HOT TAKE! — You’ve got one, and we want to hear all about it. From pop music icons to indie movies to social media trends, dive into the part of culture that you never stop thinking about, and learn how to put it all down on paper. In Pop Culture Critic, we’ll dig to the bottom of our cultural passions and come back out with a short piece of pop culture criticism that will have us all talking.

What’s the difference between a basic review and a real critical piece? How can we weave our personal narratives into cultural critique? Let’s zoom in on that one thing that lights us up, and create something sharp and memorable to share with the world! Once you have these tools in your toolbox, you’ll be using them for life.