CW400 Scholastic Intensive Workshop G7-G12
🏆 CW400 Scholastic/SOI Intensive Workshop
Take It to the Win – Polish. Present. Publish!
🎯Designed for advanced G7-G12 student writers and past award winners. This high-impact, workshop-style experience helps students elevate their strongest stories for competition submission or publication.
🎯 Award-Winning Curriculum & Instructors – CW400 builds on the proven techniques that have helped ElevatEd students earn over 227 Scholastic Writing Awards across 8+ categories, including fiction, flash, memoir, and humor.
👨🏫 Mr. Tony Hao
- A graduate of Yale University with a degree in English Literature, Mr. Hao is an award-winning fiction writer whose work has been featured in several respected literary journals. His students have earned top honors in regional and national competitions. Known for blending technical precision with emotional depth, Mr. Hao guides students to write with clarity, purpose, and heart.
📚 CW400 Syllabus
Session 1: Storytelling Beyond the Basics
Literary concepts overview: narrative risk, emotional arc, POV depth
“Defamiliarization” and pushing narrative boundaries
Session 2: Openings & First Impressions
How to captivate readers from the first line
Defamiliarization in action: A Hundred Years of Solitude
Session 3: Reading Between the Lines
Subtlety in narration and emotional inference
Session 4: Dialogue That Reveals and Hides
Subtext and power dynamics in dialogue
Session 5: Writing with Emotional Honesty
Vulnerability and restraint in storytelling
Session 6: Revision & Looking Ahead
Story diagnostics: What to cut, what to keep, how to deepen
🗓️ CW400 Schedule
• Grades 7–12 CW400
4️⃣ Aug 17-30 SUN/TUE/THU
🕘 9:00–10:00 PM ET
🕘 6:00–7:00 PM PT
👨🏫 Instructor: Mr. Tony Hao
💻 Live Zoom Classes
👥 Small Group Format – 4–6 advanced students
📝 Individual Instructor Feedback
📝 Pre-Class Requirement
One week before the first session, students must email a complete draft (max 1500 words) of an original story or personal essay to the instructor at tony@elevated.school for workshop scheduling.
🚀 CW400 – Where Your Story Stands Out !
Polish your voice. Present your work. Publish with purpose. This is where exceptional stories—and writers—take flight!
名师：Mr. Tony Hao
Mr. Tony Hao 老师毕业于耶鲁大学文学专业，专注于英语文学与小说写作，具有深厚的人文素养与创作功底。他本人曾荣获多个小说写作奖项，作品也曾发表在多份知名英语文学期刊上，广受好评。
作为一位经验丰富的写作导师，Tony 老师擅长指导学生打磨语言、构建深刻故事，并挖掘出每位学生作品中独特的个性与情感。他所指导的学生在区域性与全美写作竞赛中屡获佳绩，包括 Scholastic Writing Awards 等权威赛事。
他坚信写作不仅是技巧的训练，更是思维与情感的艺术表达。在他的课堂上，学生不仅提升写作能力，更学会如何通过文字真正“打动人心”。