THE WRITERS CLUB - Weekly Writing Class for Ages 12-15, In-Person & Zoom, Wednesdays 4:45-6:15pm PT Starting 10/23

Wednesdays starting 10/23/24 from 4:45-6:15pm PT, writers ages 12-15 will gather to develop skills and love for writing as a means for noticing, documenting, questioning, understanding, and responding to ourselves and the world around us.

In this eight-week class, both over zoom and in-person at The Songwriting School’s new Burbank location at historic Enterprise Recording Studios, we will examine, explore, and experiment with various styles and settings of writing. Each interactive class will involve inspiring and affirming lessons, exercises, prompts, and the chance to share work--all in the service of aiming curiosity and wonder with attention, intention, and a growing sense of personal style, in writing.

We will conclude the program on December 18th, a special final "sharecase" for members to share their work with the group and with family and friends who would like to attend.

The Writers Club will explore many different types of writing in the service of helping each member develop a confidence in their voice. Writing will  including and not be limited to...

• Poetry
• Fiction
• Non-fiction
• Personal writing/journal writing
• Songwriting

Tell me more!

• Who: writers ages 12-15 (younger or older by permission)
  
• What: a supportive 8 week, 90-minute classes filled with information, exercises, prompts, encouragement, and instruction
  
• Where: live over zoom and in-person at The Songwriting School in Burbank (directions/parking/access info will be emailed to registrants)
  
• When: Wednesdays 4:45-6:15pm (PT), 10/23 - 12/18, with no class 11/27 (for Thanksgiving) - 8 meetings total with a final celebration and gathering 12/18 for members to share their work with the group and interested family and friends. Details will be sent to members' families well in advance.
  
• Why: for a student who loves writing, who wants to learn to love writing(!), or is interested in discovering what various types of writing might have to offer
  
• How: an inspiring, instructive, and empowering hands-on curriculum of  weekly exercises, prompts, and mentorship, taught by a songwriter and decorated educator with an MFA in poetry who has taught authors, poets, Grammy-nominated songwriters, and Grammy-winning artists
  
• EARLY BIRD ENROLLMENT REDUCED TUITION: $325 if enrolled by Wednesday 10/16. $399 after, while there is space in the class
  
  
• Questions? Please email to info at thesongwritingschool dot com -- or TEXT or leave a Voice Mail at 818-848-7664 and someone will respond as soon as possible.

By learning to express ourselves in words (and music when appropriate), we develop...

• Empathy
• Listening skills
• Collaboration
• Confidence
• Leadership
• Patience
• Determination
• Critical thinking
• Problem solving
• A personal sense of self

Words offer treasures. We can shape them into questions—tools that dig. We can fashion them like answers—tools that shine a light. Words give voice to what, before, we could only feel. They can come to say exactly what we mean, and more.

We arrange words into stories, poems, songs, letters, speeches, jokes, scripts—the structures and shapes that best carry their precious contents. 

We take the time and the care and the heart and the art to write because saying something is for that moment, while writing something is for all the moments to come.

Writers notice details like scientists, get them down like artists, and share them like the kindest, most thoughtful, bravest friends.

We are Writers. And when we gather to grow and learn and create, we are The Writers Club.

About the Instructor
Rob Seals is a songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist whose work has appeared in feature and independent films, on ABC, CBS, ABC Family, E!, Bravo, MTV, VH-1, Oxygen, Fox, The CW, Apple +, and an underpaying streaming service near you. He holds an M.F.A. in poetry and is the Co-Founder of The Songwriting School of Los Angeles.

Before his work with The Songwriting School, he was a decorated teacher of writing and literature and two-time champion Head Girls' Track Coach at the Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA. He conducted visiting Artist in Residence works at colleges, high schools, and elementary schools all across the country for more than a decade before putting his talents to inspire, instruct, and empower under one roof at The Songwriting School in 2009.

As the creator and instructor of The Roots songwriting classes at The Songwriting School, he has helped people write their first songs and helped Grammy-Winning artists write their own songs. He has led graduates to make their first records or sign publishing deals, and he has helped creatives with full-time careers outside of music find meaning and value in musical self-expression. Multiple Grammy-nominated songwriters have taken The Roots--not to learn how to write songs of course, but to go deeper toward writing more personal, meaningful songs that matter.

Writer, producer, teacher, coach: Rob Seals is both a working creative and an amplifier of individuals and their unique creativity.