writers circle
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poetry & fiction
enrichment
ABOUT ME
Sydney Bradley is a nationally published fiction writer and teacher from San Francisco. Her stories have been printed in the Harvard Advocate, the Washington Square Review (NYU), and the Bennington Review. She attends Columbia University's MFA program in fiction. She’s edited for organizations including McSweeney’s, PEN, A Public Space Magazine, New York Center for Book Arts, and Docent to Docent magazine (the de Young and Legion of Honor museums). She was a Bennington undergraduate writing fellow in fiction. Sydney has taught at Waldorf of Pittsburgh, The Hamlin School of San Francisco, Friends Seminary of San Francisco, Marshall Elementary (SF Unified School District), and Breitenbush Hot Springs schoolhouse. During a permaculture work-stay in Ecuador, she taught kids of the intentional community y mejoró su español. She's worked with people seven and 74. Recently, she's offered her class through the black mirror. Sydney is a birth doula. She teaches language as a fine art.
y0uth Program
Calling young writers for a weekly creative ritual. Cold-read fiction and poetry, then free your hand with literary exercises and games. This is a written art class. Tone muscles. Embrace words as a sculptor does clay.
NO HOMEWORK
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for ages 7-17
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*Group and one-on-one enrichment options available*
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Parent & school testimonials
"Sydney has been incredible with our kids. She started with our then 10-year-old son in-person and we added our 7-year-old son to the mix... Week after week, she is able to meet them where they are at emotionally and coax creativity out of them regardless of their moods. Their writing has flourished as they have come to understand that writing is more than the mechanical version they've been taught in school. Each week, I'm amazed by what Sydney is able to accomplish with both kids."
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-Esther (SF)
"I was continuously impressed by Sydney’s warmth, work-ethic, and the organic connectedness that she had with the children and the Waldorf pedagogy. During her time in my classroom she was able to build loving, trusting relationships with each child in a short amount of time, taking time to truly see each child for who they were."
- Juli
Head Kindergarten Teacher at Waldorf of Pittsburgh
"I reached out to Sydney at the recommendation of a neuropsychologist who worked with my daughter. At the time, negative experiences in school and with teachers who did not understand her struggles with ADD and executive functioning had caused my amazing, bright, full-of-life daughter to withdraw from reading and writing-- which had been her passions. My hope was to find someone to help my daughter reengage, rebuild her confidence, and reignite the joy that she had felt with language. We found that help, and more, in Sydney.
As my daughter says, Sydney is very special. She is gifted in truly seeing and knowing my daughter, connecting deeply with her and being attuned to her needs, both academically and emotionally. I have seen my daughter's confidence in and enthusiasm for reading and writing soar and along with that confidence, her desire to work hard and grow. Sydney's methods are fun and tailored to meet my daughter's needs as a learner and whole person.
My daughter calls her sessions with Sydney the highlight of her entire week. Through her work with Sydney, my daughter shared that she has learned a lot about herself and feels better able to express herself.
Sydney has been a fierce champion for my daughter, seeing her strengths and unique talents. I am grateful and count my lucky stars that Sydney is a part of my daughter's life."
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-Nancy (NYC)
I consider Sydney’s lessons as an essential part of my daughter’s academic curriculum. I wish I had a teacher like her when I was growing up!
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Sydney is a talented writer, who knows how to convey her vast knowledge of writing through various fun teaching techniques: at times she uses the works of renowned poets such as Emily Dickinson, Anne Sexton, Sabrina Orah Mark or Pablo Neruda, to demonstrate the subtle imagery portrayed through words, or explain the importance of tempo, rhythm and rhyme in creative writing; or she provokes her students’ creativity by giving them prompts such “pick a house in your neighborhood and describe to me in detail its personality!” Her aim is to awaken the imagination, and teach her students the art of writing creatively.
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-Edith (SF)