MHS Creative Writing Club's Recently Moving Works
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- Nov 18
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Written by Fiona Lee
The Creative Writing Club of Middletown High has been off to an exciting start in the first two and a half months of the 2025-2026 school year.
With senior Alivia Stark as the president and Mr. Hoage as the supervisor, we have already established creative introductions as well as set days in order to write independently. Some students, including myself, are planning to create longer stories and productions of their own on these days. Senior Thomas Crago states, “I joined the creative writing club because I wanted more inspiration and interaction with writing. Seeing the work of my peers helps me develop my own work, such as my novella I'm creating for my senior project this year.”
However, shared prompts are just as implemented in Creative Writing Club as independent works. Recently, members of the club engaged in “blackout poetry” creation, which involves the “blackout” of a small pre-existing excerpt to isolate selected words, forming an original poem from an unoriginal work. Some blackout poems embody the traditional, plain black format, while other poets like to incorporate drawings in relation to the words.
Leadership members of the Creative Writing Club are currently planning to make their works more officially known in the form of creative commentary on important subjects of humanity. President Alivia Stark states, “I feel like our school really doesn't pay enough attention to creativity and the language or relationship between humanity and creativity. My goal is to normalize that with the Creative Writing Club; we plan to get some attention and use our creativity as a tool to speak louder than average words.”
There are plans being currently established to distract members of MHS from day-to-day routines through means of creative expression, encouraging individuals to pause, reflect, and go inward.
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