
Writing with the Bog Owl
Age: 13+ Middle School, High School 1/8th Credit
Through Writing with the Bog Owl, Jonathan Rogers of showcases his craft in one of his books to help writers gain confidence in their own voices and power to create. Part of the Creative Writing with Jonathan Rogers series.
In this unique creative writing course, professor and author Jonathan Rogers invites students into his own writing process by exploring The Bark of the Bog Owl, the first book in his Wilderking Trilogy. Students learn how published authors craft stories—and how they can do the same.
Students will:
- Study creative writing directly from the author of the featured book.
- Discover how personal experience and literary influences shape compelling fiction.
- Learn how to gain confidence in their own writing voice and storytelling abilities.
- Receive practical insight into the writing craft, drawn from advanced literary study.
This course offers an inspiring look behind the scenes of a published work and equips students to grow as writers through expert-led instruction and real-world examples.
- Engaging video lectures
- Reading assignments
- Writing prompts
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- Direct encouragement from instructors.
- Additional links of interest that support learning in the course.
- Live Zoom meetings with facilitators to discuss lecture material and assignments.
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Supplemental Writing Exercises are included after each video lesson. Purchase of the course enables you to download a document containing all the exercises.
Course Content
About Instructor
Jonathan Rogers, PhD
Jonathan Rogers is the author of The Terrible Speed of Mercy, one of the finest biographies of Flannery O’Connor we’ve ever read. His other books include the Wilderking Trilogy–The Bark of the Bog Owl, The Secret of the Swamp King, and The Way of the Wilderking–as well as The World According to Narnia and a biography of Saint Patrick. He has spent most of his adult life in Nashville, Tennessee, where he and his wife Lou Alice are raising a houseful of robustious children. He is featured in Grammar for Writers and Creative Writing.
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