Tampa Bay Area Writing Project
Nurturing a community of writers, young and old, novice and expert, students and teachers.
Chapter 1 Lerry the and puppet and his friend Benny the snail were watching TV and drinking soda. Benny the snail: “Man has life become more boring?” Lerry the hand puppet: “How would I know; we haven't had an adventure…
Read More Sketchonia: Lerry the Hand Puppet Runs Away by Lucas Tigre (Pepin I.C.E. Anthology 6/8)
The date is August 16thin the 10th Century. In the downstairs room, Mr. Courage (Father) was rushing around looking for something. “Where’s my other boot?” Father said. “Have you checked every room?” Mrs. Courage (Mother) said. “I checked everywhere every…
Read More Eye of Courage: The Origin by Liam Zindell (Pepin I.C.E. Anthology 5/8)
When the bell rang, Judy was late. She got beat up again. She was wearing baggy clothes to cover her body because she hates showing herself as a pretty girl. She has a pixie hair cut because why not? She…
Read More Dream By Julieta Santana (Pepin I.C.E. Anthology 4/8)
In the beginning of existence and the birth of the universe there stood five beings, called the spirit warriors, who created all life and existence. Known to be the most powerful and all-knowing beings and the greatest teachers, masters, and…
Read More Age of Revolationz By Eli Bainbridge (Pepin I.C.E. Anthology 3/8)
My story begins with me walking home from astronomy and tech club at New York High. Hi, my name is Stacie and I’m going to tell you how I was trained to be a ninja. It was 8:00 at night and…
Read More How I Became a Ninja by Carmella Castro (Pepin I.C.E. Anthology 2/8)
It was a rainy day in a base and unit ID 3X51 was going to get ready for his first mission and getting ready for what is coming to him. He saw unit ID VX31 in the distance. Unit ID…
Read More Unit ID 3X51 Chapter 1 by Anthony Soltero (Pepin I.C.E. Anthology 1/8)
Dr. Faye Powell hosted the 2021 ICE summer camp at Pepin Academy Riverview Campus from June 14th-24th. The self-proclaimed "POW (Pretty Odd Writer) Freaks" spent two weeks developing characters, writing a series of stories that focused on their character, and…
The schedule for this course is ambitious. But, if you're familiar with NaNoWriMo, you may know that programs with a break-neck pace can lead writers to great success. Here, we're going to do more than just write a 50k first…
W.I.N.D. (Writers In Need of Direction) is about to become a lot more than just a summer program. For the past three years, W.I.N.D. has met almost exclusively during June and July, with a few dedicated members gathering occasionally during…
Our final winner from the 2nd Annual TBAWP Youth Writers Conference comes from the High School Write-Ahead Poetry Contest where participants were asked to write about the topic of conformity in a poem that played with form. We called it…
Read More Pages by Madeleine James, Winner of High School Write-Ahead Poetry