Mentor Public Library has writing clubs for kids & teens

Young writers can hone their craft at our Write On club for teens or Wordplay club for younger kids.

Do your children love to write?

If so, Mentor Public Library has the perfect club for them—two actually.

Our Write On club is for teens. It meets on the third Monday of every month at our Main Branch.

They use different writing prompts and brainteasers to hone their writing skills. Any teen who wants to join their ranks is welcome. It’s a fun, supportive place to practice and improve your writing with other teens who are doing the same thing.

Our next meeting is 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 18, at our Main Branch. You can register for it on Mentor Library’s website.

All teen writers are welcome at our Write On Club.

We also have our Wordplay Club for younger writers. It's for kids in third through sixth grade.

The also use different ways to boost their creativity. At their most recent meeting, the kids each got Surprise Bags with a different—you guessed it—surprise inside.

They then had to include the surprise item—be it a wrench or plastic insect—into their story.

Wordplay Creative Writing Club meets at 4:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of every month at our Main Branch. The next meeting is Jan. 13.

You can register your child for Wordplay by calling (440) 255-8811 ext. 221 or by visiting the Mentor Library’s website.

Eric reacts to pulling a wrench from his Surprise Bag during Wordplay.

Teens can hone their writing at our Write On Club

Teens write their own stories using different prompts and brainteasers when MPL's Write On Club meets.

On the third Monday of every month, teen writers gather in the Frances Cleveland room of our Main Branch.

They use different writing prompts and brainteasers to hone their skills. For example, this month, they took random books, opened to page 46 and used the first full sentences they read as the first sentence of their stories.

They are our Write On Club and they are awesome.

Any teen who wants to join their ranks is welcome. The Write On Club is a fun, supportive place to practice and improve your writing with other teens who are doing the same thing.

Our next meeting is 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 21, at our Main Branch. You can register for it on Mentor Library's website.

By the way, Mentor Library also has a book club just for teens. Their next meeting is 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 5, at our Lake Branch. We'll be discussing Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park. You can pick up a copy of it at our Lake Branch if you'd like to join us.

All teen writers are welcome at our Write On Club.