Easthampton, MA
About us
Somehow School is a creative writing studio for kids and teens in Western Mass. We offer after-school programs during the school year, including small-group creative writing workshops, college application essay workshops, essay tutoring, creative writing tutoring, courses for homeschooling groups, and custom programming for schools.
Our writing classes are interdisciplinary, engaging with visual art, music, ecology, and obsolete technology. Each class begins with an “experiment”--write a short story with no nouns, or translate bird calls into words, or write a poem that can be read backwards or forwards. Our experimentation-focused approach 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.