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Classes & Workshops For Youth
Creative Writing Day Camps & Workshops
for Children & Teens
For details about SummerWrite 2002, including registration fees, see the SummerWrite 2002 General Information Page.
Week 2: July 8–12
Ages: 8–12
Nature Speaks (first of two weeks)
- Instructor: Annette Ramos [ bio ]
- Ages: 8–12
- Mornings, 9 a.m.–Noon, two weeks, July 8–12 & July 15–19,
Join us for this two-week intensive creative writing and theatrical experience.
We kick-off the program with a visit to the Zoo where we will observe and develop animal characters. Using the written word, movement, drama and art, we will write from these animal voices to create a living and breathing Animal Ensemble. Our second week begins with a visit to a local park to be inspired by nature's creative process. Using many creative writing exercises, theatre games and art, we will weave a performance piece for our family and friends.
Come join us, develop your writing skills, be part of this creative team, have fun and let your imagination discover the inter-connectedness of all living things.
Create A Radio Show
- Instructor: Maria Gillard [ bio ]
- Ages: 8–12
- Afternoons, 1–4 p.m., July 8–12
Live radio was what people listened to for entertainment before television.
CREATING one is a BLAST! It involves developing characters, dialogue and stories with sound effects. It's composing jingles for advertising fun things. It's music, poetry and journalism all in one!
This is a great opportunity for you to develop a variety of skills in writing, public speaking, and acting, and a fun way to use your imagination! Anyone who plays a musical instrument, loves to sing and is interested in writing, acting, and comedy is encouraged to attend.
On the last day, we will perform and tape our show before a live audience.
Ages: 10–13
Reading Buddies (All Day)
- Instructors:
- Mary Clark [ bio ]
- Wendy Low [ bio ]
- Dick Christman [ bio ]
- Ages 10-13
- Full Day: 9 a.m.–4 p.m., July 8–12
You love books, and you want to share that love with younger children. You want to get a little of that special warmth that comes from small faces in rapt attention to your voice. You want to learn more about techniques for reading aloud that work to engage children and encourage them to grow up to be readers. Perhaps you plan to baby-sit or to volunteer with young children in the near future. If so, you are a great candidate for Reading Buddies!
This innovative program makes use of experts in child care and literacy along with Writers & Books storytellers and writers to make you the person every child wants to read to them. Each day you will learn techniques and apply them at nearby daycare center, where you will read to individuals and small groups. You will get a chance to connect with the children by reading different stories with the same children over a four-day period. Mentors will give you feedback and answer your questions.
The first day will focus on various reading techniques and on developing the added skills of an oral storyteller. You will choose a story and develop a special dramatic delivery for Friday. You will also create your own short children's book to show your children.
Parents and invited friends will get to see your work on Friday afternoon.
Book Arts
- Instructor: Todd Smith [ bio ]
- Ages: 8–12
- Mornings, 9 a.m.–Noon, July 8–12
Since ancient times, the book has developed various forms, along with its changing content. We will look at examples, then make our own scrolls recording our imagined epic stories, hand-bound books of our creative writing, and pop-up books with hidden surprises. You'll be amazed at all the forms a book can take.
Ages: 12–14
Writing Your Life
- Instructor: Camy Sorbello [ bio ]
- Ages: 12–14
- Mornings, 9 a.m.–Noon, July 8–12
By now, you've seen a lot of what life has to offer-the good, the bad, the exciting, the boring. Why not write about it before it flies out of your head and is gone forever?
Write about all of your fun and funny friends, your favorite summer place, or your least favorite restaurant (and the time you found a gruesome insect in the twice-baked potatoes). Your experiences can become essays, memoirs, or even the basis for fiction. Write about your worst vacation, favorite relative, scariest moment, proudest achievement, earliest memory. Tell your own story, of your life–the one story that's yours and yours alone. Join us for a week of creative mornings.
We'll prevent your original ideas from slipping into the outer atmosphere by collecting them in a take-home anthology.
The Write Stuff
- Instructor: Donna Marbach [ bio ]
- Ages: 12–14
- Afternoons, 1–4 p.m., July 8–12
This class is a kind of training camp for young writers who want to reach the stars. In it, we will read, play writing games, experiment, and mostly have fun. We will discover:
- Why do we like to write?
- What makes a good story?
- Where do ideas come from?
- How can we express our feelings in the best way?
- When is a poem really a poem?
- Can non-fiction be creative?
Meeting other young writers and sharing ideas, you will help each other grow creatively. Together we will uncover secrets and techniques used by professionals. And, we will seek out new places to publish your best pieces.
Best of all, we will explore new worlds—outside and within—by writing and writing and writing.
Ages: High School
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Instructors:
- Poetry, Kathleen Wakefield [ bio ]
- Fiction, Thom Metzger [ bio ]
- Non-Fiction, Gail Hosking Gilberg [ bio ]
- Mornings, 9 a.m.–Noon
- Three Weeks
- July 8–12
- July 15–19
- July 22–26
- $375 General Public / $355 W&B Members
- Note:
- Writers are accepted on the basis of submissions of up to six pages in at least two of the following genres:
- Poetry
- Fiction
- Non-fiction
- School district or scholarship support is sometimes available
- Public reading on the evening of July 26
SummerWrite gives gifted high school writers, those who will go on to be authors or journalists, or have writing as a central part of their lives in other ways, a chance to work with nationally recognized poets, fiction writers, and non-fiction writers.
Each teacher gives their perspective on writing, assigns helpful in-class and between–class writing exercises, and gives feedback.
The program culminates in a public reading (Friday evening, July 26) and an anthology.
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