Writing
THE NEXT GENERATION OF STORYTELLERS
Art is powered by story. ARMES (Arts Reaching Elementary and Middle Schools) has a rich history of empowering Greenville's youngest artists to bring those stories to life through dance, theater, music, and visual arts. As of Fall 2018, ARMES also has space for students' whose voices are best expressed through the written word!
Creative Writing is the newest addition to the ARMES program for gifted elementary and middle school students. In this program, we provide a specialized environment for young authors in grades 3-8 to play with language and develop their writing practices. Chinua Achebe once said that a good writer "doesn't really need to be told anything, except to keep at it." ARMES Writing provides the community, resources, and time necessary for students to do just that: write, then write more, and write again.
ARMES CREATIVE WRITING INSTRUCTORS
cENTRAL SITE - league academy
LAURA PLATAS SCOTT
Laura Platas Scott is a Cuban American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She writes children’s fiction and nonfiction for Heinemann Press, is a book reviewer for the Alabama Writers’ Forum, the nonfiction editor for South 85 Journal, and teaches English at Converse University where she earned an MFA in creative writing.
Her work has appeared in Hippocampus Magazine, Zizzle Literary, Goose River Anthology, and elsewhere. Her current work-in-progress is a novel inspired by her family’s experiences in Cuba during the late 1950’s and early 1960s. She was a presenter at the University of South Carolina’s Upcountry Literary Festival 2021, recipient of an artist residency at Wildacres in North Carolina, and is represented by Melissa Edwards of Stonesong Literary Agency in New York.
northern site - greer middle
Coming in the 2026-2027 school year!
southern site - hillcrest middle
Coming in the 2026-2027 school year!