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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 4: July 22–26
Ages: 9–12
Fingers With Splinters While Climbing That Tree
- Instructor: Heather Ruffalo [ bio ]
- Ages: 9–12
- July 22–26, Mornings, 9 a.m.–Noon
Have you ever scraped your knee or gotten a splinter in your finger while climbing that tree? Have you climbed so high you forgot about how you'd get down? Your aim was the sky?
Discover your creativity by creating poems about your favorite animal, favorite place or special passion. Each person is expected to bring a leaf from a tree you've either wanted to or have climbed. You'll share your poetry stories with the group and discover your inner selves while using all your senses to discover and explore the world around you.
We'll do it in the Neighborhood of the Arts; you apply it in your own backyard!
Pages & Stages (first of two weeks)
- Instructor: Paula Marchese [ bio ]
- Ages: 9–12
- Mornings, 9–12 a.m., two weeks, July 22–26 & July 29–August 2,
Write yourself into the spotlight!
Using theatre games, writing exercises and stories of old, you will learn the elements of dramatic writing and performance. Each class will combine theatre games and writing exercises. Over the course of two weeks you will develop and cast your play.
On the last day, you will present your play to an audience of family and friends.
Ages: 9–15
Picture This! A Workshop in Word & Photographic Art
- Instructor: Wendy Low [ bio ]
- Ages: 9–15
- July 22–26, Afternoons, 1–4 p.m.
- Note:
- There is an additional supply fee of $10 for this workshop.
- Eastman House members receive Writers & Books member price.
- This class has a slightly higher limit of 16
- It will have two assistants and can accommodate a wider age range.
They say "a picture is worth a thousand words," and Rochester hosts the home of a picture giant: George Eastman.
If you love to write poetry or short stories and feel the George Eastman House might be the perfect place to explore and create from—join us! We'll spend a week using the house, gardens, photo galleries and permanent museum collection as inspiration for your creative writing (as well as dabbling in a bit of picture taking ourselves, using the oldest pinhole camera technologies and the latest digital technology to create poetry postcards and posters).
After Monday, this workshop will be held entirely at the nearby International Museum of Photography and Film at the George Eastman House.
Ages: 13–16
Dramatic Characters: Inside-Out (first of two weeks)
- Instructor: Judy Molner [ bio ]
- Ages: 13–16
- Mornings, 9 a.m.–Noon, two weeks, July 22–26 & July 29–August 2
The best actors "dive into" their characters fully, and create a WHOLE person on stage or screen.
When we watch this kind of acting work, we are seeing a REAL, living, breathing human being who happens to be in extraordinary circumstances, which is "the story." But what makes this person seem so real to us is the fact that the actor has created an entire life for his or her character.
In this workshop, we will embark on an in-depth character process journey. We will explore a character's whole life, physically, vocally, through writing and researching, as well as through a multitude of acting and improvisational exercises. Students will take on specific characters of their choice from dramatic or other literature, and we will bring them to life.
The culmination of our work will be a performance of these characters through dramatic monologues and/or scenes.
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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