Moving Words 2025 Summer
Writing Clinics

Grounded in the way successful writers write: 
Everyone is original, Everyone has genius, and Everyone is a writer.

Newly Added - Adult Workshop Brainstorming Basics:
Help Your Student Start (and Keep) Writing 

Instructor: Peggy Sturdivant
This one-day workshop teaches parents and teachers several brainstorming techniques so they can better support their students to find ease and access to ideas that are often stuck in their heads. This workshop is geared bottth to parents whose students have attended 2025 summer clinics, and newcomers. The adult clinic is one three-hour session. For more information contact peggysturdivant@gmail.com.

October 18, 10am - 1pm
Tuition: $150
Adult Workshop Location:
Ballard, Seattle
6412 34th Avenue NW, Seattle 98107

Completed 2025 Clinics

Middle School and High School Brainstorming Clinics

Instructor: Peggy Sturdivant
The Middle and High School Brainstorming Clinics focus on the first, most generative stage of the writing process. Students learn how the brain finds ideas and practice various techniques to access them. These techniques can be applied to many types of writing, whether personal or academic, essays or stories. The Middle/High School clinic makes a great jumpstart to the college essay.

Middle School Clinic

Completed

Middle/High School Clinic

Completed

Elementary Writing Roots Clinic  

Instructor: Sara Yamasaki
Elementary Writing Roots is a place where tender writers experience a burst of writing freedom, reclaiming their trust and imagination in themselves, their ideas, and their ability to express who they are.