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 9: August 26–30

Ages: 8–13

Write On!

• Instructor: Wendy Low [ bio ]
• Ages: 8–13
• Mornings, 9 a.m.–Noon, August 26–30

You know you love to write. It's the end of the summer and school is starting. Here's a class that will help you keep writing all through the year! Learn to finish the stories and poems you start, and to keep a journal of observations and ideas. Look at famous people's creative journals and learn new uses for your own journal.

End the summer with a writing extravaganza! Take home the inspiration and techniques to keep you going!

Word Up!

• Instructor: Robert Ricks [ bio ]
• Ages: 8–13
• Afternoons, 1–4 p.m., August 26–30

Write poetry and short stories to express your inner hopes and fears, and your perspective on events around you. Learn to structure your writing by imitating models such as published stories, greeting cards, or rhyming advertisement jingles.

For the last day, we will choreograph our individual work together into a revue performance.

Ages: 14–18

Write Who You Are

• Instructor: Karen vanMeenen [ bio ]
• Ages: 14–18
• Mornings, 9 a.m.–Noon, August 26–30

Teen women have experiences, problems, feelings, dreams and hopes that are unique to them.

In this session, we will explore these personal and cultural issues through poetry, personal essays, sharing life stories, and journal writing prompts. Participants will be given the opportunity to write from the heart and share who they are and what they experience with a supportive group of other young women.

We will also read selections from relevant books, including Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women, and Women Who Run With the Wolves, and discuss their relevance in our lives.

Sharing Discoveries

• Instructor: Jean Coco [ bio ]
• Ages: 14–18
• August 26–30, Afternoons, 1–4 p.m.

Do you wonder who you are? How does your past influence your future? What do your experiences teach you that you wish to teach others?

In lively sessions, we will uncover the meaning and the significance of our personal experiences through brainstorming and writing. In this introductory course, you will learn the fundamentals of personal essay writing, explore the creative writing process and be exposed to the dynamics of giving and receiving feedback.

You will leave with your written collection of personal discoveries.

Ages: High School

Writing the College Admissions Essay II

• Instructor: Jonathan Rich [ bio ]
• Ages: High School
• Mornings, 9 a.m.–Noon, August 26–30

Learn to write impressive essays for admission applications, the kind that wow admissions officers by what you say and how you say it, that advertise you: creative, curious, intelligent, hard-working and involved.

Bring any actual questions from college applications.

We will have an admissions officer look at your essays and give you feedback.

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