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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 3: July 15-19
Ages: 8–12
Nature Speaks (second 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.
Word on the Street
- Instructor: Reenah Golden [ bio ]
- Ages: 8–12
- Mornings, 9 a.m.–Noon, July 15–19
This is a journalism workshop where students will spend the week developing articles for print.
Our news team will beat the streets in an attempt to uncover and cover news happening in the Neighborhood of the Arts and in popular culture. We will read and critique articles from popular magazines, entertainment TV shows, City, and the Democrat and Chronicle brought in by the instructor and students.
At weeks end, we will publish a small newsletter for cafés in the area. A motivated few may also have the opportunity to propose their articles to various media outlets including the instructor's own Urban television show, The Life on UPN!
Fun With Fiction
- Instructor: Camy Sorbello [ bio ]
- Ages: 8–12
- Afternoons, 1–4 p.m., July 15–19
Got a cool story in your head aching to jump out? Can you create plots and characters more exciting than those you read in books or see in movies? Then now is the time to write your short story–or even begin a chapter book!
Through writing exercises and mutual support, your masterpiece will unfold on the page.
Join us for Fun With Fiction. All you need is pen, paper and imagination!
Ages: 13–16
Journaling
- Instructor: John Cieslinski [ bio ]
- Ages: 13–16
- Mornings, 9 a.m.–Noon, July 15–19
Keep your thoughts, writings and life together.
This course explores how memoirs, ideas, records of events and random notes become pieces of publishable writing. We will use tricks for prompting writing and exercises for pushing the creative boundaries. We will share exciting and different ways to use journals.
Be ready for hard work and great fun! Be prepared to get addicted to keeping a journal… if you aren't already!
Listen Up!
- Instructor: Amy Andrews [ bio ]
- Ages: 13–16
- Afternoons 1–4 p.m., July 15–19
Do you ever wish people would listen to what you have to say? Have you ever thought it'd be fun to act?
Come to this workshop and learn how to create believable characters who tell the world what it is like to be on the front edge of adolescence. We'll read monologues (dramatic speeches) by other young people before writing our own. We'll act silly, take risks and laugh while we learn about acting, characterization and voice.
At the end of the workshop, we'll choose actors among us to let our characters speak from the stage.
Ages: High School
- 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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