Creative Writing

Just off the press, the 2024-2025 LaVilla Creative Writing Anthology is here! Our young writers wrote pieces on the theme of time.  We hope you enjoy their creativity!

2024-2025 Creative Writing Anthology

About LaVilla’s Creative Writing Department 

LaVilla’s award-winning Creative Writing Department offers middle school students numerous opportunities to share their work in written and spoken forms both at our school and in the community at large. 

Students read and write fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and journalistic writing during their time in Creative Writing. 

Additionally, students have multiple opportunities to work with students in other arts areas for collaborations and performances. 

In any given year, over half the students in LaVilla’s Creative Writing Department win or place in writing contests and/or have their work published.  

Audition Information

Preparing for the Audition:

Students interested in auditioning for Creative Writing should bring a 3-prong soft folder (no hard cover binders) containing three original pieces they have written THIS school year.

The folder should be labeled with the student's first and last name on the cover. The pieces should demonstrate at least two types of writing such as poetry, short story (fiction), or creative non-fiction. The pieces may be typed or handwritten.

The students should also include a 4-6 sentence Personal Statement on why the student loves writing and why the student wants to be in the Creative Writing Department at LaVilla.

The student folder WILL NOT be returned, so please only provide COPIES.

At the Audition:

• Students will participate in a personal interview.

• An on-demand, timed writing prompt will be given to the student.

• Students will also participate in an oral recitation during the audition

Student performing written work on stage

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”  -Toni Morrison

 

Students collaborating

Child reading story outloud