Moving Words Writing Clinics

Summer 2024

Registration is open for the Moving Words Summer Brainstorming Clinics. These three-day, in-person clinics for Middle and High School students focus on the first, most generative stage of the writing process and can be life changing for students who believe they cannot write or are not "good" at it, for whatever reasons.

In addition to the student clinics, there is an adult (for parents and teachers) offering: Brainstorming Basics: How To Help Your Student Start (and Keep) Writing. Leading the clinics and workshop will be Moving Words writing instructor Peggy Sturdivant who has been working with students of all ages for 20+ years and as teacher and administrator for Moving Words Writing Clinics since 2013.

Students and parents will learn how the brain finds ideas and practice various techniques to access them. These techniques can be applied to many types of writing: personal, academic, essay, poetry, or other story genres. The Middle and High School Clinics are over the course of three days, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 10am - 3pm. The adult workshop is one three-hour Saturday session from 10am - 1pm. All sessions are limited to small groups. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination required.

Summer Clinics

Lead Instructor: Peggy Sturdivant

The Middle/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 clinic is a great jumpstart no matter what the current obstacles to writing.

NEW - Middle School and High School
Brainstorming Clinic

Lead Instructor: Peggy Sturdivant

July 22-24; 10am - 3:00pm
Tuition: $800
Location: 6412 34th Avenue NW, Seattle 98017

For Middle School and High School Students
Entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2024

Adult Workshop
Brainstorming Basics: How To Help
Your Student Start (and Keep) Writing 

 Workshop 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. The adult clinic is one three-hour session.

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 10am - 1pm
Tuition $120.00
Location: 6412 34th Avenue NW, Seattle 98017