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The CatholicAuthor Creative Writing School
Join the founder of CatholicAuthor in a self-paced school designed to fuel creed, craft, and co-creation. Write riveting fiction with clear, simple language, human characterization, rich world-building and more. 12 lessons. Course notes.
For anyone who wants to write fiction! Especially teens.
Write 1 story each month
12 prompts to think outside-the-box, and think deeply about different genres. Includes fairy tales, fantasy, sci fi, romance, mystery, mythology, and more.
Private feedback
You and your mentor are the only ones looking at your story, in a private and safe writing environment.
Join the community
Every student in the school is welcome to free membership to the community.
Learn about the craft
Get personal, mentored feedback on your stories. Watch short monthly videos to prompt constructive thinking about plot, feedback, characterization, and more.
Be a CatholicAuthor
Our podcast, creative convos, and prompts enrich your insights and outlooks. Your mentors are passionate about
Print your stories
At the end of the year, you can choose to publish all your stories as a softcover booklet, and purchase it to be sent to your home.
Your Mentor, Dominic
If you’re a parent, can you imagine your teen excited about a creative writing course that counts as school, and helps them get jobs in the future? Want a writing club to be more than an extracurricular activity?
Or are you a hobby writer who wants a mentor to help you strengthen your story, improve your characters, think deeply with your plot, and point out ways to focus your style?
Dominic hosts this Writing School to help you become the author you want to be.
He is the founder of CatholicAuthor, a self-published author who works in branding and marketing. His passion for helping Catholic writers ignited this community, podcast, journal, and school. He is a complete fantasy, scifi, and historical thriller geek who loves science, archaeology, theology, and psychology. Plus a good cup of tea, and a convo!
Personal
A mentor reads every submission to provide constructive feedback
Reputable
Mentors are professional writers and passionate Catholics
Affordable
Flat monthly fee, or quarterly or annual discount
Flexible
Write at your own pace each month, assign it to any high school semester
Valuable
Earn an English elective credit for your high school transcripts
Questions? Requests?
Send us a message, or comment right there!
Details about the Course
Program Cost
$35 per month, or $350 per year (get 2 months free). Or pay quarterly.
Age for Entry
You must be 14+, or 9th Grade or higher. Younger students may request to apply.
Pre-Requisites
No pre-requisites required. A passion for creative writing is a must!
About this Program
It started as a service for teens… but now adults are interested!
This Creative Writing Program prompts you to have fun with writing, to actually get it done and get published, to earn feedback and share your own insights. All of this teaches you how to communicate and express yourself. And it helps teens get better jobs!
What if you could share your excitement about fiction with a community of friends? Imagine joining regular contests, and competing for a chance to get published in our quarterly journal? What if you could share you works in progress for ideas and feedback, to help you be better writers in record time?
It’s all online. It can fits right into your schoolwork – because it’s self paced. Join a community filled with people serious about writing.
If you have dreamed of writing a novel but no idea where to start, sign up.
If you’ve found yourself stuck somewhere between planning and finishing your drafts, join.
If you lack the confidence to complete a manuscript, sign up.
If you’re looking for practice receiving and implementing feedback, sign up.
If you want a fun, lively, space to make friends and enjoy improving your writing skills, start today.
Why teens should join this program
Most homeschooling families don’t have a course or a plan for creative writing. Students are allowed to fiddle around in their spare time. But if they’re uniquely passionate about this, they’re spending hours on it already.
When your teen joins this course, they’re going to get better, get feedback, stop procrastinating, learn from published and professional authors, join workshops and challenges, be pushed to think about themselves and their writing more deeply, finish their stories and novels, stimulate their creativity, start getting used to the publication and revision process, and get in the groove of regular writing – so that they actually improve!
Imagine gifting your teen a fun and friendly way to learn the discipline of writing.
- To learn to write faster and clearer to land better jobs – because they can prove they can share what they think with clarity
- To understand the parts of a good story, and a good novel
- To understand how to be a modern Catholic Author
- To get published and their name known
- To have a network of friends who support them
- To build a trusted circle of beta readers
- To launch their brand and their audience by starting their writing portfolio
How the program works
Step 1: Start Subscription
Set up your subscription with Stripe or Paypal.
Step 2: Set up account
Enter the group, and create your profile on Catholic Homeschool Online.
Step 3: Start your first story!
Read the manifesto, introduce yourself, and start writing your first story!
Feedback
Help form each other with feedback from your peers
Live meetups
Optional live co-writing sessions with other teens
Enrichment
Monthly Q&A or podcast with published authors
Half Credit
Students can spend a minimum of 60+ hours. Concretely, that means participating in the quarterly contests to finish 4 stories.
1 Credit
150+ hours of work, or around 30 minutes a day. Students participate in every monthly genre challenge and quarterly contest, and will finish 12 stories in a year.
Additional Half Credit
Students can participate in additional workshops throughout the year to spend time with Catholic writer mentors on a preferred topic. They must complete the exercises to get a passing grade from the mentor.
How Mentors work
Every story is read by a program mentor, a passionate Catholic with professional writing experience. The student gets private feedback on the quality of their submission, including what’s working and not working in your story. This usually includes characters, voice, plot, dialogue, setting, and style.
Students must demonstrate an ability to incorporate feedback from their mentor, and improve their submissions each time.
At the end of the year, students can earn a Certificate of Satisfaction from the mentor. Parents are encouraged to read the stories and follow along with their student’s progress, so that you feel confident in awarding the credit on their high school transcript.
The core value of our creative writing program is professional feedback from our mentor. This gives your student the confidence and direction they need to improve faster.
Meet your Mentors
Starting with our founder, and more coming throughout the year!
Meet Dominic de Souza
A young, Catholic dad and novelist passionate about worldbuilding and Catholicism. I’m a graduate from the Writer’s Institute for Children’s Literature, self-published a children’s novel, and work as a full time marketer and graphic designer. I am married, with a...
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Manifesto
How to be a Catholic Author
Helping authors write exciting novels, connect faith with fiction, and be a better Catholic!
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