About us

Somehow School is a creative writing studio for kids and teens in Western Mass. We offer after-school creative writing classes and school break programs.  

Somehow School classes connect creative writing with visual art, music, and old writing technology (typewriters, old computers, risography). We take an experimentation-focused approach that helps students stop worrying about writing “correctly” and instead start to see language more like clay--a material they can build with. 

Though we love to help brainstorm, at Somehow School we never dictate what students should write about or how. Instead, we help each student set and then achieve their own creative goals, whether they want to write a short story in text-message format or a screenplay about dogs in outer space.