The Writing Prompt

Thank you to Friesens for printing this InCITE publication and for providing free copies to our writers. Friesens is a proud supporter of Canadian education and literacy throughout Canada.

Thank you also to Jan Campbell, Executive Director of CIS and the CIS (Ontario) for supporting CITE Executive projects.

WE ASKED RESPECTED AUTHOR BETSY WARLAND to provide a theme and writing catalyst for our student writers. She graciously provided the following thoughtful challenge:

Choose a story or essay from another century. “Make It New” (Ezra Pound) by using a contempoarary setting. It can be a poem, novel, play, or essay. Re-imagine it. Recreate it (make it yours).

Imagine Jem, Boo and Scout; or Julia and Winston; or Katherine and Petruchio; or Swift’s Modest Proposal; or Frankenstein; or Telemachus and Odysseus/Ulysses in our day and age.

Narrative in the 21st Century Poster - photography by Alex Guizzetti, grade 12 of The Bishop Strachan School

Congratulations to Tiffany Wong, Grade 12 of The Bishop Strachan School, designer of “Ingredients of Memories”, our 2012 InCITE cover.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE BOLDED TEXT IN THE ENTRIES INDICATES TEXT TAKEN FROM ITS ORIGINAL SOURCE.