Arisia Sci-fi/Fantasy Short Story Contest

Here's a link to the contest. It's free to enter! Entries are due by December 1 and must be between 1000-3000 words. There are cash prizes available.
Arisia Contest

While You are Away at Hayride...

We wrote 300-500 words on setting (with voice). If you'd like to do them separately, you may write 300-500 on setting and 300-500 with voice.

MC link

MC link

Day of Poetry and Poetry Contest

Student Day of Poetry is coming up! This will be a fun event where you'll get to meet students from other schools, listen to poetry from professional writers, engage in workshops and watch/do open-mic for student poetry. I'll take the first 14 students (white-bus capacity) who pay their $10 and give me a completed permission slip.

The schedule:

8:00 - 8:30 poet and teacher check in
8:30 - 8:50 opening poetry performance

9:00 - 10:10 workshop 1 

10:20 - 11:30 workshop 2 

11:40 - 12:00 lunch 

12:00 - 12:30 performance 

12:30 - 1:00 student open mic

Here's link to Student Day of Poetry on December 7. Student Day of Poetry

Here's a link to the permission slip for the trip. I have printed copies available at school, also. Day of Poetry Permission Slip

Here's a link to the contest. Turn your entry in to me by 10/18. Poetry Contest Link

Emotion Paragraph

Choose an emotion, and write a few sentences that convey that emotion. You may not use the emotion word or synonyms for the word within your text. You should not use abstract terms, either. Use only concrete detail. Remember: make your verbs and nouns do the work. :)

Do not title the paragraph with the emotion word since we're going to guess in class.