Attention all fiction writers and playwrights: Do you love kids? Are you excited by the idea of helping children learn to write short stories with beginnings, middles, and (drum roll) endings? Writopia Lab, an award-winning 501(c)3 nonprofit that runs the country's best creative writing workshops for kids, ages 6-18, is looking for instructors for our Chicago region.

During the summer, Writopia workshops meet for weekly intensives -- 3 hours a day from Monday-Friday. During the school year, workshops meet once a week for ten weeks. All young writers finish at least one story by the end of their workshop period. We are looking for an instructor to assist with in-school programs during February and March, as well as an instructor to teach throughout the school year at our location in Chicago’s West Loop.

Our instructors are half camp counselor (fun and funny, warm and engaging) and half savvy editor/teacher (astute, insightful, serious, open, sensitive). We train teachers extensively in our method and are looking for published fiction authors and/or produced playwrights. Spanish-speaking skills are a plus, though not required. To find out more information regarding who we are and what we do here at Writopia, please visit our website at www.writopialab.org.